Come to find your place in comics history

From the earliest comics strips in the 1900s to the avant garde comics of the 1980s and 1990s, you'll learn 100 years of comics essentials in this course.

Course curriculum

    1. Introduction to Western Comics Essentials

    2. Western Comics Essential Video Intro by Tom

    3. Western Comics Essentials Full 200-page PDF

    4. Browse the SAW Reading History Folder

    5. Women in Comics Links

    6. She Changed Comics PDF from the CBLDF

    7. 100 Most Influential Comic Books and Pages, according to NY / Vulture Magazine

    8. PDF - Comic Strip Masterpieces, a sampler, from Free Comic Book Day

    9. Browse this fantastic curated collection from the Billy Ireland Museum of Comic Book Art

    10. Stereotypes in Early Comics

    1. A timeline, some Info and some links

    2. Scans of Hogan's Alley, The Yellow Kid

    3. Katzenjammer Kids 1897 by Rudolph Dirks

    4. Happy Hooligan by Frederick Opper, 1900-1932

    5. Little Nemo in Slumberland by Winsor McCay

    6. Rose O Neill, Nell Brinkley, Grace Drayton

    7. Go Deeper - Silent Graphic Novels from the early 20th Century

    1. Timeline and brief intros to the main adventure strips

    2. Some original art!

    3. Full-length article: The Adventure Strip Before World War II:Capitalism, Democracy, and the Soldier of Fortune by Randy Reynaldo

    4. Racism, Sexism, Homosexuality, the 1940s and The Dragon Lady

    5. Fanny Cory's Little Miss Muffet

    1. Golden Age Timeline

    2. Golden Age Comics Links

    3. Kids Comics: Walt Kelly, John Stanley and Carl Barks

    4. Survey of Golden Age Covers PDF

    5. Tarpe Mills + Hilda Terry

    6. African-American Representation in Comic Strips

    7. All Negro Comics, 1947

    8. For Conversation: Panels from the Golden Age

    1. Welcome to the 1950s. EC Comics and more

    2. Seduction of the Innocent, Fredric Wertham and the Comics Code

    3. Jack Kirby and the Marvel Revolution

    4. Silver Age and Beyond

    5. Silver Age Reader Edited by Craig Bostick

    6. Women Artists in the Silver Age: Marie Severin and Ramona Fradon

    7. Romance Comics 1950s - 1970s

    8. Bonus: Massive Folder of EC Downloads

    9. Bonus: Foul Play!

    10. Bonus: The Long, Gory Life of EC Comics - PDF Essay - Franklin Harris from the June 2005 issue of Reason

    11. Bonus: Visual History of Harvey Kurtzman Art and Career

    12. Bonus: More Kurtzman and EC Links

    13. Bonus Essay: Gary Groth on EC Comics

    1. CORE: Undergrounds and Other Rebellions. Read these Seven.

    2. Browsable Link of Underground Comix

    3. DOWNLOADS: Zap, Arcade, Weirdo, Raw, Twisted Sisters and Gay Comix Downloads

    4. ARTICLE: An Oral History of Wimmen's Comix

    5. ARTICLE: Beginning of the Underground

    6. BONUS: Loads of Underground Videos

    7. ARTICLE: The 50th Anniversary of Underground Comix BY R.C. HARVEY

    8. BONUS: Ebon: An African American Superhero from the Underground Comix Scene

    9. Black cartoonists circa 1940-1980

    10. GALLERY: A Selection of Underground Comic Covers

    11. ORIGINAL ART: Aline Kominsky-Crumb, from the Billy Ireland

    12. BONUS VIDEO: Wimmin and Comix By Diane Noomin, A talk in Gainesville, FL in 2003

About this course

  • $199.00
  • 60 lessons
  • 0 hours of video content

Tom Hart + John Ronan

Instructors:

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Tom Hart is a cartoonist has been the Executive Director of The Sequential Artists Workshop, a school and arts organization in Gainesville, Florida since 2012.

His 2016 memoir, Rosalie Lightning, debuted at #1 on the New York Times Bestseller List and was featured on many Best-Of-2016 lists.

His Hutch Owen series of graphic novels and books, were nominated for all the major industry awards. His The Collected Hutch Owenwas nominated for best graphic novel in 2000. He was an early recipient of a Xeric Grant for self-publishing cartoonists, and has been on many best-of lists in the Comics Journal and other comix publications. He has been called “One of the great underrated cartoonists of our time” by Eddie Campbell and “One of my favorite cartoonists of the decade” by Scott McCloud. His daily Hutch Owen comic strip ran for 2 years in newspapers in New York and Boston, and his “Ali’s House”, co-created with Margo Dabaie was picked up by King Features Syndicate.

He was a core instructor at New York City’s School of Visual Arts for 10 years, teaching cartooning to undergraduates, working adults and teens alike. Among his students were Dash Shaw, Sarah Glidden Box Brown and other published cartoonists like Leslie Stein, Jessica Fink,Josh Bayer, Brendan Leachand many others. He has taught comix and sequential art at schools and institutions all around New York City for more than 10 years, and has conducted week-long workshops from Maine to Hawaii. He also teaches sequential art in the School of Art and Art History at UF.

His website is http://www.tomhart.net

Tom Hart

Executive Director of The Sequential Artists Workshop

Tom Hart + John Ronan

Instructors: