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.

This advanced studio will explore the comics form by reading and discussing contemporary works in addition to creating comics of your own. There will be a heavy focus on the processes of comics creation and self-publication. The goal is to improve your cartooning skills, help you better communicate to your chosen audience, and increase your understanding of comics as an art form.
Readings and artists vary.
Projects include completing a full length comic book that is ready to self-publish.

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.