Category Archives: Comic Book Art

Develop and expand a personal comic style, using dreams, superheroes, and the works of famous artists. Content addresses story, character development, and drawing techniques.

Comics-Spring 2012

Lessons by Michael Guyette In this course students learn the basic principles of comic book art and how to use images to communicate with others. Students have the freedom to choose a story from personal experience or their own imagination … Continue reading

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Comic Book Art – Fall 2011

Lessons by Jace ‘Rascal’ Smith Students will begin to appreciate and understand how to execute comic book art by learning about many of the tools, formats, and technical approaches that are being used by today’s comic artists to make comics. … Continue reading

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Comic Book Art for Grades 6 – 8 – Spring 2011

Lessons by Christine Phillips In this set of eight classes students explore how comic artists create compelling visual stories by developing characters, places, events, and ideas that are exciting and believable.  Students look at a variety of comic genres and styles … Continue reading

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Comic Book Art – Fall 2010

Robert Burns In this eight-week course, students expand their ideas about what comics are and why they matter, and they learn to write and draw their own comics, specifically within the assumptions of the comic medium. Comic Book Art Fall … Continue reading

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Comic Book Art – Spring 2010

K. MarshallThis course is an overview of comic books as an art form in today’s culture. It stands to introduce students to the history and processes of comics as an art form. Students create stories of their own design and … Continue reading

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Comic Book Art – Spring 2009

Craig Silva Comic Book Art is a learning experience in which Boston-area students, from 6th to 8th grade schools attend 2.5 hour classes on eight Saturday mornings at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Using the students’ existing interest … Continue reading

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Comic Book Art Fall 2008

Comic Book Art Lessons written by: Ali Nebel and Phillip Olson How can our comic book art tell a story? How can we create our own personal comic style? What makes our comics worthy for others to see? Comic Book … Continue reading

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Comic Book Art – Spring 2008

Comic Book Art R. Akiba, A. Alessio This class encouraged students to build comics based on artistic inspiration (commercial comics, cartoons, pop culture) that they see everyday or from reaching into different areas that are not related to comics (mundane … Continue reading

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Comic Book Art Fall 2006

Stories from the Edge Comic Book Art Grade Levels: 6-8 Author: Ryan Davis Comic Book Art – Fall 2006

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Comic Book Art Spring 06

Comic Book Art Narratives: Telling Our Stories Grade Levels: 6-8 Author: Jeremiah Stevenson Comic Book Art Spring 2006

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Comic Book Art – Fall 2005

Cartooning and Illustration: Fall 2005 Grade Levels: 6-8 Author: Evan Jacob Comic Book Art – Fall 2005

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