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Comics & Graphic Novels
Comics & Graphic Novels is an Intensive, meaning it happens in a short time span (1 day in NYC, or 2 days on Zoom). The course includes a mixture of lectures and exercises. It’s open to writers of any level. Farther down, you can view a syllabus for this course.
Comics and graphic novels marry words and images to tell a story that leaps off the page unlike any other art form.
These illustrated narratives range from strips like Calvin and Hobbes, to traditional comic series like Watchmen and Wonder Woman, to book-length novels and memoirs like Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home, Mariko and Jillian Tamaki’s This One Summer, and John Lewis’s March. Yes, they embrace silliness and superheroes and serious literature—anything you can imagine is fair game.
Here you’ll explore how these stories work, focusing on the fundamentals of visual storytelling, as well as the way these images merge with words. Though you’ll be experimenting with illustration in class, no artistic background is required.
This course, taught by an industry professional, allows you to get your feet wet going through the process of creating your own comic, by sketching out ideas, writing part of the script, and pitching it to your peers.
Sarah Raven
elementary school teacher
Upcoming Classes
NYC COVID Info
Price
Registration fee $25, paid once per term
2-Day
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Zoom
Real-time videoconference
Tuition: $175
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One-on-One
Tuition: $400
Syllabus
This course gives an overview of the basics of writing/illustrating comics and graphic novels. Course components:
Brief lectures
Writing exercises
Topics:
Introduction to Comics and Graphic Novels
Visual Storytelling
Character
Pacing
Point of View
Breaking In
Note: Content may vary among individual classes.
Teachers
Teresa Wong
Teresa Wong is the author of the forthcoming graphic novel All Our Ordinary Stories and the graphic memoir Dear Scarlet: The Story of My Postpartum Depression, a finalist for the W.O. Mitchell Book Prize and longlisted for CBC Canada Reads 2020, (both Arsenal Pulp Press). Her comics and nonfiction have appeared in The New Yorker, The Believer, McSweeney's, the CBC, Buzzfeed, and Event Magazine, and she has taught comics workshops for The Believer and The Word on the Street Lethbridge. She holds a BA and a B.Ed from the University of Calgary and a Certificate in Creative Writing from Humber College.
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Teresa Wong
is the author of the forthcoming graphic novel All Our Ordinary Stories and the graphic memoir Dear Scarlet: The Story of My Postpartum Depression, a finalist for the W.O. Mitchell Book Prize and longlisted for CBC Canada Reads 2020, (both Arsenal Pulp Press). Her comics and nonfiction have appeared in The New Yorker, The Believer, McSweeney's, the CBC, Buzzfeed, and Event Magazine, and she has taught comics workshops for The Believer and The Word on the Street Lethbridge. She holds a BA and a B.Ed from the University of Calgary and a Certificate in Creative Writing from Humber College.
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