How to move to your spot
What is the industry? What can I do with my skills? Who is watching? Who is listening? Where can I go?
These questions will be discussed in-depth, if not answered, in this course on going forward with your talent and vision.
It's not easy for an artist, but with some training, and especially, a network of colleagues and mentors, you can begin to navigate the professional world.
Course curriculum
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Introduction to Professional Practices
Show details- Welcome to Professional Practices
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Week One: Intro to Professional Practices
Show details- Week One: Intro to Professional Practices - art making, philosophy and the everyday
- Notes on making art
- Two Questions by Lynda Barry
- Zadie Smith - In Defense of Fiction
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Week Two: presenting your work and talking about your practice
Show details- Week Two: how to present your work and talk about your practice
- Notes on presenting your work and talking about your practice
- How to Make Comics and Cartoons by Liana Finck
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Week three: setting goals and meeting deadlines
Show details- Week Three: setting goals and meeting deadlines
- Notes on how to set goals and meet deadlines
- BONUS: Managing Your Workflow with Beth Trembley
- BONUS: Internship tips from Joan Hilty
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Week Four: getting your work out there - submitting to comics anthologies, magazines and collections vs. self-publishing
Show details- Week Four: getting your work out there - submitting to comics anthologies, magazines and collections vs. self-publishing
- Notes on submitting comics to anthologies
- BONUS: Editor of The Nib on pitches that work
- BONUS: Publishing - Tom's Story: Mini-Comics
- BONUS: Publishing - Tom's Story: Self- Publishing and Distributing
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Week Five: deciding between self publishing and a publishing house
Show details- Week Five: deciding between self publishing and a publishing house
- Notes on book publishing and writing a proposal
- Eyes Too Dry (Chapter One) by Alice Chipkin and Jessica Tavassoli
- Rosalie Lightning Pitch PDF
- BONUS: SAW presentation by Robyn Chapman from First Second
- BONUS A Writers Life by MariNaomi
- BONUS: Publishing - Tom's Story: Small Publishers and Being Seen
- BONUS: Publishing - Tom's Story: An Agent, A Big Publisher and More Self-Publishing
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Week Six: life after school - how to maintain a comics community
Show details- Week Six: life after school - maintaining a practice and comics community
- Notes on maintaining a practice and a comics community
- BONUS: A compost heap of thoughts, suggestions and tips from Tom Hart
- BONUS: Internship tips from Joan Hilty
- BONUS: A compost heap of thoughts, suggestions and tips from Jason Little
- BONUS: Justine Mara Andersen Surviving Clients Video
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Emma Jensen
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