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Saturday afternoon cartooning classes at the Cartoon Art Museum

Media Release -- Saturday afternoon cartooning classes meet from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM at the Cartoon Art Museum. The attendance fee for each student is $5, which covers the student’s admission to the museum and the cost of art supplies. Students will learn a wide variety of skills in each class, with subjects ranging from character design to story-boarding to creating their own mini-comics. These classes are recommended for students from 8-14 years old.
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SparkLife » Synchrogirl117's Book Review: Gone With the Wind

Synchrogirl117's Book Review : Gone With the Wind. Posted February 23, 2010. Sparkler synchrogirl117 has earned herself a new book series here on SL. Woot! (But we have a question: How could this be required reading when your class is ...
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From the Comic Strip to the Animated Short: CAM class for adults

Media Release -- From the Comic Strip to the Animated Short is a two-evening class held amongst the current collection at the San Francisco Cartoon Art Museum. This class will include docent tours of both the permanent Comic Strip and Animation exhibits and will give you a clear understanding of the history of the mediums. The class will consist of lectures, demonstrations, and activities essential to the creative process of cartooning, such as figure drawing, gesture, acting, proportion, writing, and composition. This class will prepare you with the basics of cartooning so that you can move forward with your own creations and projects, while learning in a truly inspirational space
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Book review: Yu's stories as moving as they are disturbing …

Book review : Yu's stories as moving as they are disturbing. By Benjamin Whitmer on November 15, 2009 · Comment · Email This ·. Third Class Superhero By Charles Yu Harcourt Trade Publishers 192 pages. The protagonist of the title story ...
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My Vampires Never Sparkled: A Halloween Guest Blog By Tony Lee

Halloween Week kicks off here on Splash Page with the first in our series of guest columns from comic book creators known for their work with vampires, werewolves, ghosts and all manner of terrifying subject matter. First up is writer Tony Lee , who's currently hard at work on the comic book adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies," as well as the webcomic " Where Evils Dare " and his original graphic novel " From The Pages Of Bram Stoker's 'Dracula': Harker ," a sequel to the class
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Book Review: South of the Border with Disney | Cartoon Brew …

The Three Caballeros will always hold a place in my heart. As a child of the 1960s and early 70s, at a time when my class mates were experimenting with.
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Meltdown University Continues!

FOR WRITERS AND ARTISTS!  NEW CLASS STARTS OCTOBER 5th! Join our  weekly workshop where you can accomplish your goals as a comic book writer, artist or both. In the class, participants bring in their work, exchange useful and honest criticism, and share ideas while being led and instructed by an experienced, passionate comics professional. Learn the most important aspect of writing – how to structure a story – as it relates to the medium of comics and graphic novels. Artists will b
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Meltdown University Continues!StorytellingAdd comments

FOR WRITERS AND ARTISTS! NEW CLASS STARTS OCTOBER 5th! Join our weekly workshop where you can accomplish your goals as a comic book writer, artist or both. In the class, participants bring in their work, exchange useful and honest criticism, and share ideas while being led and instructed by an experienced, passionate comics professional. Learn the most important aspect of writing – how to structure a story – as it relates to the medium of comics and graphic novels. Artists will b
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Michigan State University’s History Of The Modern Comic Book #2 By Professor Ethan Watrall – The Tao of Comics

I’d like to welcome everyone back to The History of the Modern Comic Book – a column that (roughly) parallels my class (of the same name) which I’m teaching in the Department of History at Michigan State University. Last time around, I introduced you to the class – we looked at how the class was being taught, what it covered – that kind of thing. If your brain needs to be refreshed (or you simply didn’t catch the first column), check it out here . In this edition of the column, I want to go
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Wisdom of the Hands: book review

book review . I was asked by a magazine to write a 500 word review of Matthew Crawford's Shop Class as Soulcraft, An Inquiry Into the Value of Work. Unedited, this is what I've written: One morning I followed a link sent to me by a ...
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