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| Monroe Community College Comics & Sequential Art Art 110 100-105 Spring 2012 Instructor email contact: agordon@monroecc.edu |
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"An idea is salvation by imagination."
- Frank Lloyd Wright |
| Housekeeping
5 simple rules to do well in this
class 1. Be Respectful. To every person, yourself, and every assignment as art and work ('nuff said). 2. Show up to class. Check the syllabus as to how attendance effects your grade, be on time , and stay for the entire period ('nuff said). 3. Do the planning, do the work, and do it on time. See the syllabus for details. Talent, or lack of- means nothing compared to legitimate work. 4. Read the syllabus, help sheets and the assigments. See the paperwork to read the paperwork, that's where the info is ('nuff said). 5. Enjoy this class. Express YOUR ideas, make the ideas personal, studio time is good & can be fun instead of work. |
| Course Materials |
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Class Syllabus Class Materials Course texts available in the MCC Bookstore: (all four books used $62 new $84) 1. "the Art of Comic Book Inking" (Dark Horse Comics) by Gary Martin This is the homework 2. "Making Comics" by Scott McCloud 3. "Understanding Comics: the invisible art" by Scott McCloud 4. "Adventures in Cartooning" (Scholastic) Good for beginners Optional (but not listed) for majors: "Art & Fear" by David Bayles and Ted Orland $10-12 |
| Help handouts and Art related topics |
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Basic Art Principles Conceptualization Critique Guidelines Good Artwork is |
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Elements of Composition Visual & Conceptual Organization Evolution (or de-Evolution) of the Comic as Art |
| Projects & Homework |
| Homework is very simple. In the back of "the Art of Comic Book
Inking" (Darkhorse) there are fold out pages. 1 panel (your
choice, but the tiny panels only count as .5 a panel- so you need to do
2 for credit) from the inking sheets from the study guide per week.
Due in either (a) printed hand in form or (b)
scanned and emailed form.
I do not accept originals, and just seeing them does not count.
Due by the end of class every Wednesday. Homework begins week 2, and
ends when you have either (a) completed the sample pages
or (b) the
semester ends. The Homework Grade is assigned as: A = 12 or more B = 9 to 11 C = 6 to 8 D = 5 and less than 5- you don't earn anything better than an F (+, -, or 0) Project # 1 Funny and Sad (Graded) Project # 2 Sequence panels (Graded) Project # 3 MCC Comic Anthology (+, -, or 0) Project # 4 (+, -, or 0) Project # 5 (Graded) Project # 6: Final Project 5 Page Book or strips |
| Helpful Links |
| Museum of Comic & Cartoon Art
http://www.moccany.org/ Sequential Artists Workshop http://www.sequentialartistsworkshop.org/ Bleeding Cool Comics site http://www.bleedingcool.com/ The Kubert School http://kubertschool.edu/index.html |
| Sample Artwork
Greatness
Not all inclusive, just a varied sampling, click on the thumbnail to enlarge |
| 1. Wally Wood's 22 panels that always work, Alex Ross. Art
Spiegelman, Kent Williams, Dave McKean, Bruce Timm, Frank Miller 2. Bill Watterson, Aaron MacGruder, Tom Toles, Jack Kirby, Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss), Jim Lee, Charles Schultz, Joe Ciardiello 3. Jack Unruh, Robert Crumb, Bill Sienkwicz, Alex Toth, John Kricfalusi, Celia Calle, Barry Windsor-Smith, Mike Mignola, Joe Kubert 4. Neal Adams, Frank Cho, Bernie Wrightson, Howard Chaykin, Will Eisner, Basil Wolverton, Simon Bisley, John Romita, Al Hirschfeld 5. Matt Groening, Walt Disney, William Hogarth, Ralph Steadman |
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