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The Education of a Comics Artist
Edited by Michael Dooley and Steven Heller
This provocative anthology provides inspiration on how to teach, think, and talk about comics in the classroom and beyond. Featuring essays by, and interviews with, more than sixty professionals, educators, and critics, the book provides an indepth view of the art, business, and history of comics art. Readers will learn about a wide variety of genres, from editorial cartoons, political comics, and comic strips to graphic novels, superhero sagas, and alternative comics. Other featured topics include the role of comic art in related fields such as animation, design, and illustration;lesson plans by top teachers; and essays on how to thrive and grow as a creative comic artist.
Only those who truly think outside the panel can transform such a nowmainstream method of mass communication into a truly exceptional art. The most superlative comics art is drawn from deep dark recesses, pushed to the surface by desires to express compelling ideas through words and images that would otherwise be suppressed if the form did not exist. This is, perhaps, why comics art is at least in the minds of the contributors here the most popular course in art school today, and probably tomorrow.
Course Syllabi
Michael Dooley has developed a valuable Online Resources PDF, of interest to all "The Education of a Comics Artist" readers.
Michael has also prepared six PDF files of syllabi that were left out of "The Education of a Comics Artist" due to space limitations.
Syllabi from the following Teachers:
Jessica Abel and Matt Madden
Jay Chapman
Dan Nadel
Joel Priddy
Ted Stearn
James Sturm
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Reviews
"Michael Dooley and Steven Heller’s anthology of essays, interviews, and yes, comics, covers all the bases for those of you who want to teach, discuss, create, or just plain turn the pages of the wonderful caricatured and word-ballooned universe. Brimming with advice and anecdotes from experts like Art Spiegelman (Maus), Bill Griffith (Zippy), and of course, the godfather himself, Will Eisner, The Education of a Comics Artist manages to inspire the reader while laying out the cold and hard logistics of making a go of it in the industry."—Animation magazine
***** (5 stars) "Drawing from the expertise of over 60 professionals in the field, editors Dooley and Heller serve up a compendium of tips, ideas, suggestions, and guidance to help improve your own comic strip/book. As with all of Allworth's helpful volumes for the working artist, this is just one more bargain for the perplexed."
—Art Times
"This book covers the history of the genre, personal narratives, tips on how to survice commercially and a lot of graphic design advice. All of it is readable, most of it entertainingly so, and many chapters you will go back and read time and time again."
—Animation World Magazine
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