Vermont’s Center for Cartoon Studies recently announced that it will now be offering MFA degrees–a achievement for which I congratulate them heartily. Much of the reporting on the event, and discussion thereof, though, has conflated two separate but related concepts: degree granting, and accreditation. I myself made the same mistake when I first heard this …
Tag: Teaching
Apr 30 2007
Teaching Comics in Seattle
I’m currently the recipient of all email that comes to the “info@” email address listed as the contact address for NACAE/teachingcomics.org,and every so often I get an email from someone in the press wanting a quote about the growing presence of comics and graphic novels in educational settings. When this happens I usually suggest they …
Dec 29 2006
My Cat-Style Cartooning Technique is Unstoppable
If I ever get around to writing a how-to cartooning book (something I have actually considered), one technique I’m going to champion is learning how to pencil and ink with a real, live–and often moving–cat on one’s drafting table. My thinking is that this is kind of like those “heavy hands” things that some folks …
Dec 05 2006
Lone and Level Sands Readers Guide
Archaia Studios Press has posted some study guides to A. David Lewis and m p Mann’s Lone and Level Sands here. I wrote the introduction to the book and contributed to the advanced study guide (direct link). This is notable not just for its educational value, but also because it’s the first time (in print …
Oct 18 2006
Inking Part II
Well, this is it: not just part two of my inking lesson, but the final installment of this column. “What?” you ask, “No final lesson on computer coloring?” No, I’m afraid not—and I’ve got a number of reasons. The most important is that there are already tons of online resources on this topic (and I’ll …
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