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The education of a comics artist : visual narrative in cartoons, graphic novels, and beyond

Title: The education of a comics artist : visual narrative in cartoons, graphic novels, and beyond / edited by Michael Dooley and Steven Heller.
Publication: New York : Allworth Press : School of Visual Arts, [2005], ©2005.

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Description

xxii, 265 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

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History.

Note

Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction : The most popular course in art school / Steven Heller -- Foreword : What's so funny about comics (and understanding)? / Michael Dooley -- Section I The comics field : Magazine cartoons : Cartoons at The New Yorker / Bob Mankoff -- Wednesday "look day" and the freelance magazine cartooner / R.C. Harvey -- In praise of offensive cartoons / Paul Krassner -- Editorial cartoons : Stop them damned pictures / Ben Sargent -- Interview : The obligation to be honest / Tony Auth -- Caricature : biting the face that feeds you / Steve Brodner -- Political comics : Learning from the political cartoon / Paul Buhle -- Launching World War 3 / Peter Kuper -- Interview : My new distribution technique is unstoppable / David Rees -- Comic strips : Comics vérité / Stan Mack -- Interview : Gut feelings and waves of intuition / Mark Alan Stamaty -- Interview : Zippy, my alter ego / Bill Griffith -- Interview : Sylvia, my role model / Nicole Hollander -- Kids' and teens' comics : Katy Keene : forgotten comic icon / Teal Triggs -- How I learned to stop worrying and love Archie Andrews / Jessica Abel -- A passion for Top Cat / Barbara McClintock -- Action/adventure comics : Superhero artists of the twenty-first century : origins / Arlen Schumer -- Interview : The first rule : there are no rules / Jim Steranko -- Interview : Illuminating the darkness / Barron Storey -- Interview : Learning to get "real" / Bill Sienkiewicz -- Interview : The need to do something different / Dave McKean -- Interview : The whole-brained approach / David Mack -- Alternative comics : The education of an editor / Monte Beauchamp -- Interview : Arranging sights and ideas / Gary Panter -- Learning from the master / David Sandlin -- The birth of Leviathan / Peter Blegvad -- Interview : What's the "big idea"? / Mark Newgarden -- Graphic novels : Interview : Revelations of a pluralist / Chip Kidd -- Interivew : Acme graphic novelties / Chris Ware -- Interview : A novel graphic / Art Spiegelman -- Interview : Memoir of a revolution / Marjane Satrapi -- Interview : Out of the inkwell / Kim Deitch -- Interview : The power of old-fashioned storytelling / Rick Geary -- Career tips for control freaks / Ho Che Anderson -- Miscellany : Interview : The education of an educational comics artist / Leonard Rifas -- Mini-comics : comics' secret lifeblood / Tom Spurgeon -- Fort Thunder : a comics' art collective / Dan Nadel -- The European comic book industry : a guided tour / Bart Beaty -- Manga in America, Manga in Japan / Bill Randall.
Section II Widening the field : Comics in art and illustration : Interview : That old time religion / Elwood Smith -- Interview : Representational art to the forefront / Robert Williams -- Section III Education Illustrated : Dan James -- Nicholas Blechman -- David Heatley -- Rick Meyerowitz -- Section IV The comics profession : The business of comics : Surviving the convention circuit / Heidi MacDonald -- Popularizing the comics / Todd Hignite -- Growing pains / Eric Reynolds -- The creation of comics : Bring out the dead! / Craig Yoe -- Street smarts / Colin Berry -- Write ways : an unruly anti-treatise / Dennis O'Neil -- Throwing the book at comic artists / Tim Kreider -- Common sense on giving offense : a brief guide to what you can get away with / Robert Fiore -- Contradictions of character / Ward Sutton -- What's love got to do with it? / Trina Robbins -- Section V Comics studies : Teaching comics : Interview / Gunnar Swanson -- The four tribes of comics / Scott McCloud -- Interview : Dedication, commitment, talent / Joe Kubert -- Some "contemptible" British students / Roger Sabin -- Interview / Joel Priddy -- To the heart of the medium / Will Eisner -- Lesson plans : The importance of teaching comics / Ted Stearn -- Portrait of a comics artist as a graphic designer / James Sturm -- Experimental comics in the classroom / Matt Madden -- Funnybook lit 101 / Rich Kreiner.

ISBN

1581154089
9781581154085

LCCN

2005005865
99972714690

OCLC

ocm58050312
58050312
SCSB-8810238

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries