One thing about blogs is that it’s a real pain to read a series of posts because you have to navigate backwards. So I have compiled links in order to all of my Summer Intensive 09 posts for your ease of reading. And here are the links, in order starting from Day one: Day one: […]
Summer Intensive, the Last Day, Part 2: MoCCA visit with David Mazzucchelli
The Friday afternoon before MoCCA Art Festival our students were scrambling to get their comics finished up. Still, we made time to meet up at MoCCA after lunch, where David Mazzucchelli himself met us to give us a tour of his just-opened retrospective show, “Sounds and Pauses, the Comic Art of David Mazzucchelli,” curated by […]
Summer Intensive, Day Eight
Quiet day in the classroom on Thursday as students plowed away through their inks. A few stayed at home or only came in for part of the day so the room looked pretty deserted at times. Here are a few pages we haven’t seen much of yet since Stephanie has been doing a lot of […]
Summer Intensive, Day Seven: part two
Wednesday afternoon Kim Deitch came to class to talk about his work. He started with a brief but entertaining overview of his career. He left no doubt that he and his peers were very aware of the importance of what they were doing in the 60s. He seemed genuinely annoyed that people dwelled on the […]
Summer Intensive, Day Seven: part one
We spent the first part of Wednesday inking. Most people were at least started on inks so we went down to the library on the 2nd floor and photocopied reductions of a few pages. There are two reasons to do this and I think they’re a crucial step in the process of finalizing your pages: […]
Summer Intensive, Day Six
Today’s class was mainly me moving from table to table and looking over people’s progress, trying to solve drawing problems, making sure everything reads smoothly, and looking ahead to inking. I did a very quick demo of nibs and brushes toward the end of class but I would have liked to have had much more […]
Summer Intensive, Day Five
A couple photos from Monday’s drafting tables: news and comics from the author of 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style and other works
Summer Intensive: Day Four, part II
Here are some photos from Tom Hart‘s afternoon workshop. Using a Power Point presentation and having all the students do a series of sketches and notes on index cards, Tom laid out his ideas about story generation and developing accumulations of images and ideas into all kinds of stories. The ideas and activities come out […]
Summer Intensive: Day Four, part I
Photos from Friday’s morning session. I arrived to find the students already looking over each other’s work, always the sign of a good class: the teacher should ideally start a dialogue that the students continue. These two show Ya Ting’s revised thumbs. She decided yesterday to make her story 8 rather than 7 pages so […]
Summer Intensive: Day Three
Quick report after a busy day: I aimed to teach laying out a sheet of bristol board for penciling AND teaching the basics of lettering with the Ames guide as well as the basic drafting ink tools. I probably spent too much time rambling on about a quick slide show of short comics I did […]