You get a comics class? I could never find one offered at any of the universities I've ever attended.

Yeah, I'm a student at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, GA. They offer an entire degree in Sequential Art. I'm actually one quarter away from finishing my Bachelor's in comics (they also offer a Master's, but I'll be coming back later for that).

Huh! That's pretty awesome.. nice to know that such a course actually DOES exist! All I've ever gotten were 'fine art' teachers that just looked down their nose at my cartoons. The art field is pretty non-conducive to cartoonists in general.

Oh yes indeed. Even when I find a school like this that embraces the art form and nurtures it as a legitimate medium, I still get goofballs who are shocked when I tell them I'm studying comics.

"Where do you go to school?"
"SCAD."
"Oh, fantastic! Are you a painter, sculptor, perhaps a portrait artist?"
"I draw comics."
"..... oh... I'm sorry?"

So many people don't consider cartooning to be an art form, which is hilarious since it's actually an abstract genre; you take what you see and break it down into an exaggerated reality. It takes as much skill and practice (to do it WELL) as any other form out there. Grab someone who does still-life's and portraits for a living, tell them to draw Bugs Bunny, and watch them fail miserably.

But I digress... rant over. SCAD rocks. Go there. :D

Actually this is true.. I know a very excellent artist, the type whom I'm prone to envying.. he took one look at my work and went "Wow, I'm so jealous of that! I *wish* I could do something so simple, yet so complete"

Truth be told, I think there's more money (in terms of that which is attainable BEFORE one's death) in cartooning than 'fine' art. Many a 'master' painter has died in poverty, only to have their works selling for millions now.. but plenty of cartoonists can find work, either as comic strip artists or doing political cartoons.

A Bachelors in Comics? Man, that's gotta be one of the coolest degree names ever. Right up there with a PhD in Electric Guitar Wailin' and a Masters in Ninja Assasination.

A Doctorate in guitar... man, I'd love to go for that one. Although in further "strange yet true," they also offer a Master's in Video Games here! (they refer to it as "Interactive Game Design")

Even beyond its purpose as an exercise, this is a very cool and very poignant little comic page.


Mark

Ahahaha, this rocks! XD
And fantastic inking!

all that blank ink should haved been a fbitch to fill properly

Nah, not too tough. Just use a slightly larger brush size and, as Homestar Runner says, "appwy wibewawwy."

Poor robot! But faved because of my love for the metallic constructs.

Thats so oddly powerful for a 3 panel.
I think youre the first scad person Ive seen on FA. My gf is going right now, and Ive applied for sequential art.