Comic Artists, Publishers, Poets, and others...

Attempting to catch up on sketches of various public speakers...

Here are cartoonists at various venues:

Tom Hart @ SVA

Leela Corman @ Word

Rick Parker @ MoCCA Fest

Gahan Wilson @MoCCA

A couple of panels from the 2012 Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival:

The Narrative Collage: Tim Hensley, Charles Burns, Tom Spurgeon, Anouk Ricard.

Emerging International Comics Networks: Carmela Chergui, Tommi Musturi, Dunja Jankovic, Ines Estrada.

I show up regularly to the New York Comics and Picture Story Symposium, but sketch only rarely:

Jason Little

Matthew Thurber

Leah Wishnia

Keren Katz

Arlen Schumer

Mark Delboy

Jack Feldstein

Steven Kroninger

Kurt Hoss

Mark Lerer

Victoria Roberts

Seymour Chwast

From the Barney Rosset Memorial at Cooper Union, 5/9/12:

Haskell Wexler

David Amram

Fred Jordan

Peter Rosset

A reading at Poet's House in July, 2011:

Albert Mobilio

Rachel Eliza Griffiths

Evie Shockley

Jena Osman

Myla Goldberg performing I forget where (sketching in the dark):

 I think that's it for now. Anyone interested in my sketches of anonymous people from cafes, subways, life drawings, etc, please follow this other blog.

Classes, students, and a call for entries

This Tuesday, January 15th, SVA is hosting their Information Session for the Cartooning & Illustration department. Come talk to me about my courses, Cartooning Basics and Figure Drawing for Graphic Novelists. 6:30-8:30 pm, 209 East 23rd Street, room 311, 3rd floor.

Image (c) Rocio Duque 2012

One of my star Figure Drawing students, Rocio Duque, has posted her dramatic and intense class project on her blog. Look for more great comics from Rocio in the near future.

Image (c) Dane LaChiusa 2012

Another top student, Dane LaChiusa, is putting together an anthology of comics about fatherhood. If you're a dad or would like to make a comic about your dad, let him know. Here's the book so far.

See you Tuesday?

Sketches from "Comic New York," a symposium at Columbia University

Let's see if I can catch up on posting my symposium sketches.

Last March, I managed to attend most of Comic New York and managed to sketch most of the participants. I never managed to sit too close and hence may not have managed to achieve many likenesses. Still and all, here's what I did:

 Political New York  Moderator: David Hadju, Denis Kitchen, Sabrina Jones, John Carey


Alternative New York  Moderator: Gene Kannenberg jr, Bill Griffith, R Sikoryak, Charles Brownstein, Julia Wertz


Keynote: a conversation with Chris Claremont and Louise Simonson  Introduced by Eric Wakin





Periodical New York  Moderator: Eddy Portnoy, Irwin Hasen, Emily Flake, Ben Katchor, Lauren Weinstein



 New York as Breeding Ground  Moderator: Danny Fingeroth, Al Jaffee, Miss Lasko-Gross, Tracy White, Dean Haspiel
 
Comic New York and the Academy  Moderator: Jeremy Dauber (Columbia University), Jonathan W. Gray (CUNY/John Jay), Paul Levitz (Columbia University), N.C. Christopher Couch (University of Massachusetts/Amherst & the  School of Visual Arts)

 

Some lovely ladies in the audience:

 

Some artifacts in the room:

 
 

Check out my amazing cartooning students!

Enrollment is under way for my spring continuing ed courses at the School of Visual Arts-- Cartooning Basics and Figure Drawing for Graphic Novelists.

a comic page by Ken Frederick

Come study the figure in the comic book context. We'll deal with anatomy, sure, but also run through skills-building exercises in character design, forceful movement, theatrical staging, body language, costumes, storytelling, design, inking,...

The Cartooning Basics course similarly covers steps in the creation of a short comic, from the concept to the printed booklet, with time devoted to fundamentals in the graphic language of form, perspective, composition, camera movement, lettering, inking,... Cartooning involves a lot of basics, but there's nothing more fun!

The school has just posted these galleries of student work. Have a look!
http://www.sva.edu/continuing-education/galleries/figure-drawing-for-graphic-novelists-13-cs-cic-2218-a
http://www.sva.edu/continuing-education/galleries/cartooning-basics-13-cs-cic-2011-a