Fall semester at SVA continuing education

Me and Tom Hart teaching last fall at SVA (photo ©Elinor Carucci)

Fall semester begins in a few weeks for the Continuing Education division of SVA and I'll be offering my two usual classes.


Comics Storytelling, starting September 20 on Tuesday nights, is a 12-week class where we explore the language and tradition of comics narrative. I assign a few short assignments, then you work on a longer comic of your own. This tends to be a low-key but very productive class. Each semester is unique since so much depends on the chemistry of all the students together, but its always engaging and most of my students keep in touch, some of them taking other classes or going on to apply to art school.
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I'm very sorry to say good-bye to my friend and colleague Tom Hart, who has headed down to Gainesville FL to open his own comics school. But I'm also very excited about his replacement as my co-teacher for Independent Projects: Comics. Nick Bertozzi is taking on that duty and I know this semester is going to be full of great conversation with a whole new dynamic.
The seminar, which starts Saturday, September 24, is a great opportunity to get occasional feedback on a project you are working at on your own: graphic novel, short story, webcomic, whatever. We meet three times throughout the semester for full-day Saturday critique sessions which always generate thoughtful feedback and enlightening discussions from the whole group. We've had multiple repeat students in this class as it is well suited to artists who are basically working on their own but want to come in from the cold occasionally.
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There will be an open house/info session TOMORROW, Tuesday, September 6, where you can learn more about these and other classes. I'll be there as will a bunch of other teachers. In recent semesters, this info session has become something of a happening, with MC Keith Mayerson setting the mood, Stanley Martucci reminiscing about being an SVA student in the 60s, and Jerry Moriarty free-associating about art, comics, and life in general.

Details:
Illustration and Cartooning Information Session
Tuesday, September 6
6:30 pm-8:30 pm
209 East 23 Street, room 311, 3rd floor
Moderator: Keith Mayerson, cartoonist, illustrator, fine artist

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Colombiano

From September 14 to 17 I'll be in Colombia for their second annual comics festival, Entreviñetas.

I'm flying down to the city of Armenia on Wednesday, September 14 and diving straight into a series of lectures and round tables as the one American (by which of course I mean estadounidense) and probably the only non-native Spanish speaker at the show.

Be sure to spend some time exploring the links on the guest artists page, it'll give you a snapshot of a rich world that we barely have a sense of here, stateside. I'll do my best to put my reporter's hat on and send reports about the comics scene in Latin America. (If you don't follow me on Twitter, that's the place to get my moment-to-moment observations: http://twitter.com/mmaddencomics)

FOLLOW UP: Entreviñetas now has a blog.

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