Jeremy R Tinder

This team-taught class is an intensive, three-week immersion in comics. The faculty consists of two SAIC faculty members and one visiting-artist-in-residence, working in a studio alongside students. Students work with faculty one-on-one, participate in group critiques, and attend lectures prepared by the faculty members.

The Department of Painting and Drawing offers a wide variety of comics courses, ranging from traditional to experimental methods and techniques. Each course is designed to focus on a specific area of comics production. To learn more about the topic of a specific comics course in which you are interested, please review the course description for that particular class.

The Department of Painting and Drawing offers a wide variety of comics courses, ranging from traditional to experimental methods and techniques. Each course is designed to focus on a specific area of comics production. To learn more about the topic of a specific comics course in which you are interested, please review the course description for that particular class.

With an emphasis on production, this comics course focuses on developing and critiquing a culminating body of work that will be created from idea to completed printed publication. Students? work will be formatted, discussed, and placed in the context of their post-SAIC life and careers. This may include a variety of methods such as ashcans, pitches, conventions, tabling, anthologies, minicomics, and/or long form narratives. Experience in comics or illustration is highly recommended.

Readings will supplement this course and provide context and expectations for producing high caliber work paralleled with managing a studio practice and your health. Selections will vary but typically include Growing Gills by Jessica Abel, Draw Stronger by Kriota Wilberg, Asterios Polyp by David Mazzuchelli, and How to Not Always Be Working by Marlee Grace

Students will spend the semester creating a culminating body of work for publication as well as documenting their process throughout development and evolution.

This graduate seminar focuses on comics and visual narratives for the incoming cohort of the MFA:Comics pathway. This course will provide a foundation for building context, articulation, and intention for students and their work. Students will be asked 'why comics' in a variety of ways for both their own work, and the work of others. We will explore the history of comics and individual lineages of select cartoonists, alongside critical theory on contemporaries in the field.
Students will be exposed to a wide breadth of creators through readings. Readings vary but typically include graphic novels, academic texts, floppy comics, interviews, and zines.
Course work includes dynamic readings, engaging classroom discussions, field trips to local cartoonist studios, critiques, and lectures on the mechanics of cartooning.