Michaela Pohl is a history professor from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, working on a graphic memoir. She amazed her classmates all summer in the Figure Drawing for Cartoonists course with her expressive, forceful, graphically bold drawing style.
Her graphic memoir, Accusation: A German Childhood, deals with rigid adoptive parents in 1970s Germany and their closeted Holocaust denial. In the summer course, Miki completed a chapter called The Hitler Box. Check out pages 1, 2, and 6:
The life of a college professor is a busy one. Let's hope we can read her comic in print someday soon.
Regarding the online figure course, Miki says, "The figure drawing class helped me design characters that are more memorable and easier to draw repeatedly, and to continue work from other classes and make my pages more visually impactful. Having classes that were online was extremely important to me during a challenging year and a half."
Fall classes start next week! Thinking In Ink on Tuesdays, Figure Drawing for Cartoonists on Wednesdays, Cartooning Basics on Thursdays, all online 6:30-9:30 pm EST. Join us!
