Our Visiting Artist this week was Joel Christian Gill a fascinating cartoonist who's passion is telling stories about the forgotten Black characters from History. He teaches at the NH Institute of Art. He told us his own story about how his family was the richest Black family in their Southern town - but he...
I'm not sure there is a relation between the two types of comics in the title... but I finished my Non-fiction Project. It was due last Wednesday and after getting some feedback, I decided to follow through with the feedback and add a few more pages to tie everything back to the...
Maybe the week went so fast because I had so much work due, or maybe because I got so little sleep... staying up till 4am most nights! But it started pretty well - last Saturday - an evening out with the Fireman at The Local, spent listening to Brad Myrick and drinking whiskey sours. And drawing. That...
Today, instead of a Visiting Artist, we had Industry Day with 4 experts from different areas of the Comics Publishing field. Tracy Hurren is an editor at Drawn & Quarterly. Bill Boichel runs Copacetic Comics Co. Jennifer Linnan is a literary agent at Linnan Literary Management. Joan Hilty runs PageTurner and teaches at SVA. It...
We started our lesson on Non-Fiction comics with a field trip to Clay Hill Corners Farm in Hartland, VT to talk with Marty Banak and listen in as he was interviewed. He showed us around the amazing farm and his sugar shack (on wheels!). Greenhouses, bees, blueberries, even a little mushroom farm. I kept...
I collected my Valentines today! Haven't had such fun with Valentine cards since grade school! Although the sentiment is slightly dangerous in the hands of cartoonists. Meanwhile, back in Comic History, we have been learning about the Underground Comix Movement. This is not a movement that I am particularly fond of. Lots of...
