The education of a comics artist : visual narrative in cartoons, graphic novels, and beyond / edited by Michael Dooley and Steven Heller.

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Other Authors: Dooley, Michael 1948-, Heller, Steven.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Allworth Press : School of Visual Arts, [2005]
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Table of 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.