My Continuing Ed comics classes at SVA start January 26

(a spread from a comic by Rick Ritter from my fall 2009 Comics Storytelling class)

A new semester is beginning at the School of Visual Arts and as usual I am offering two classes for the general public.

On Tuesday nights I'm offering my Comics Storytelling class. This is a 12-week workshop where I teach the formal aspects of storytelling, from combining panels, words, and images to thinking about story structure and varieties of narrative. We begin with some short, experimental assignments and then spend the second half of the class working on a longer project. I've taught this class for several years and it always yields and engaged and intelligent bunch of people. Half the fun is the conversation and sharing of interests and passions among classmates.

(a page-in-progress from a comic by Tommy Hansen from my fall 2009 Comics Storytelling class)

Tom Hart and I will also be running our one-of-a-kind Independent Seminar on comics. We meet on three full Saturdays spread throughout the semester (late Jan., early March, late April) and each class is a combination of crit session and dialogue/information session about time management and creative problem-solving. This class is already getting pretty full but keep in mind that we offer it every semester including summer.
[**Please note that the second meeting of this class is on Saturday, March 6 and NOT February 27 as listed on the SVA website.]

You can read about other classes and about how registrations works, etc., here.