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A new comix art school, The Sequential Artists Workshop, is soon to open in Gainesville, FL. Please see the website at http://www.sequentialartistsworkshop.org/ for details. The founders of the Sequential Artists Workshop, also called SAW, are running a fundraiser at http://www.indiegogo.com/Creating-The-Sequential-Artists-Workshop.
The following is an excerpt from a letter sent by the school's founders, who include Tom Hart and Leela Corman:
We're starting this school because we recognize more and more the need for intensive training in this artform, and also want to see the good, interesting adventurous artists out there multiply and flourish. That's why we're calling it The Sequential Artists Workshop: our mission is to train and support artists.
The school is being founded by Tom Hart, who has taught cartooning at the School of Visual Arts in New York City for 10 years, and has helped countless amazing students at SVA become artists. Tom says, "Cartooning and graphic novels are becoming bigger and bigger every day. I tutor and teach more and more people who are fascinated by this medium but don’t know it’s workings or don’t know its history, or who just need time and mentoring to practice, learn and work. We want to be a place to for those people to work, to learn the form and to become sequential artists."
You can see the letter in full on our announcement of the Workshop on the ImageTexT News Feed. We at ImageTexT hope that you will extend support to this exciting new organization.
From the Sequential Artists Workshop:
SAW (The Sequential Artists Workshop) is accepting applications for its single-year intensive program, perfect for serious students of comic book storytelling and sequential art. Whether your interest is personal stories, graphic novels, or genre comics or whether your concern is for entertainment, literary depth, or personal expression, then our program is for you.
An announcement from SAW, the Sequential Artists Workshop:
John Porcellino's Workshop is up and running and we're already making arrangements for our attendees. The early-bird price of $250 will go up at the end of the year, so get in now. See more info on the SAW website, here, or just sign up, here
For attendees, we have a separate message:
The following is an announcement by the Sequential Artists Workshop:
New classes in January
Announcing a brief 5-week introductory Comics Workshop Class for Adults
Jan 12-Feb 16 (we'll skip Jan 26 to visit Gene Yang at the Alachua County Library.)
We'll try to cover everything (see below) but what we don't cover we'll offer in later, more intensive adult classes, beginning in April.
Go to http://www.sequentialartistsworkshop.org/classes/ to register using PayPal, or email us about other methods.
A teen class starting Jan 7 will begin at The Doris Center in Gainesville.
ImageTexT is currently seeking submissions for a special issue on Shakespeare and Visual Rhetoric, to be released in Fall 2012. The issue will be guest edited by Richard Burt (Medieval and Early Modern Film and Media, Unspeakable Shaxxxspeares) and co-edited by ImageTexT production editor, Katherine Shaeffer.
The works of William Shakespeare comprise one of the most widely (and consistently) revised, adapted, rewritten and reappropriated bodies of writing by a single author in the world. ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies seeks to take advantage of this figure's continual prominence in popular media by examining the visual heritage of Shakespeare from a perspective which prioritizes the association of word with image. In 2012, ImageTexT will be producing a special issue devoted to investigating the intersection between Shakespeare and visual rhetoric. The analysis of comics based on Shakespeare's work will of course be welcome in this issue, but we are also looking for articles that expand the thinking of the word/image relationship beyond the comic book.
Publisher Mohawk Media has today released a graphic novel featuring all-new action hero, Tough Guy.
The British team of writer Chris Bunting and artist Steve Beckett is joined by American art legend Herb Trimpe.
Writer Chris Bunting says: "The comic book world was in dire need of a true all-ages character. Enter Tough Guy. While he has to contend with a modern threat in the form of a terrorist organisation, he still has one foot in the past, when comic books were more concerned with entertaining than being edgy.
"There isn't an artist more qualified to illustrate the cover than Herb Trimpe, whose art has graced some of the most entertaining comic books. Like the eponymous character, Herb Trimpe's art pulls no punches."
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