SYLLABUS: Comics Workshop (Spring 2019)

Comics Workshop – Spring 2019

Instructors: Lucy Tan, Mary Terrier, Emily Shetler

  • February 11 – Week One: Introduction to Drawing Comics
  • February 18 – Week Two: Stories and Inking

Solid Blacks and Patterns

  • February 25 – Week Three: Four-Panel Comics

Adding color

  • March 4 – Week Four: Copying Other Artists and Four-Panel Comic Strips

Refining work through copying artists

  • March 11 – Week Five: Exploring Connections Within the Panel

Relating images and words in unexpected ways

  • March 18 – Week Six: Comic Games

Generative exercises

  • March 25 – Week Seven: Longer Comic Strips

Sustaining comics over two pages

  • April 1 – Week Eight: Beads off a String

Varied approaches to story entry and exit

  • April 8 – Week Nine: Naming It

How do you tell a complicated story?

  • April 15 – Week Ten: Technical Aspects

Finding precision in format

  • April 22 – Week Eleven: Making Zines

Playing with arrangement

  • April 29 – Week Twelve: Putting it All Together

Finding a place for your work