Jul 03 2007
I’m currently teaching two two-week sections of comics art for the Sawtooth School’s Summer Art Honors program for rising 8th through 12th graders. Today I did a section on gag cartooning, which–aside from the occasional Nickelodeon Magazine reader–seems to be a pretty much unknown art form among this age group. I took in a couple …
Jun 22 2007
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 …
Apr 30 2007
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
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
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 …
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