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Justine Mara Andersen has come to SAW to share her professional experiences from years of working for clients such as DC Comics (Green Lantern, Invisibles, etc.), Wizard Of the Coast (Dungeons & Dragons, Dragonlance, etc.) Luscafilm ("Star Wars Insider," "Star Wars Gamer"), and numerous other clients. Her class will focus on inking styles and techniques (in which she will demystify the brush), and will also touch upon the many considerations from start to finish that separate professional from amateur work. She will be sharing the knowledge she gained from years of study and support from comics luminaries like P. Craig Russell (Sandman, Elric), Val Mayerik (Punisher, Conan), Jeffrey Catherine Jones, Frank Thorne (Ghita Of Alizarr) Jim Steranko (original Raiders Of the Lost Ark designer, SHIELD, Strange Tales) and more. Students will be required to bring the following items to the first class:
View more of Justine's work here: http://justinefolio.blogspot.com/
5-Week Class for Creative Adults Our first intro classes have been great successes. This repeat of the intro session will serve as an introduction to the vocabulary and methods of comics and sequential art. This class will be a survey of comix styles and tools and possibilities. We'll look at tons of examples, do in-class exercises and work towards a single-page masterpiece. Thursdays, 6:30-9:00,
Coming Soon: Co-Dependent Study. A Monthly Saturday Class for Project Development Summer Teen Intensives, June 18-June 29
Interested in a once-weekly teen summer class? Click to The Doris to register!
Educator, award-wining cartoonist and director of SAW (The Sequential Artists Workshop) Tom Hart will come to your organization with a 2-3 hour professional development workshop designed to pull everyone out of their routines and into new creative solutions for your group's goals and challenges. Utilizing games, structure, obsessions and a little bit of chaos, Tom will take your group and encourage and enable them to surprise themselves; unlocking ideas, finding combinations, and in the end creating stories and themes that they can take into their future work and explorations. Your organization can choose between a number of set workshops. All workshops include a small projected presentation and then discussion and work time and a constructive debrief.
Tom Hart is an award winning cartoonist who has worked in advertising, animation, comic strips, and has had multiple graphic novels published, one of which was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Graphic Novel. He is a veteran teacher at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, and is Executive Director and Founder of The Sequential Artists Workshop in Gainesville, Florida, and is currently working with the Department of Defense to create an online comics curriculum for veterans and service members. Workshops are mostly limited to the North-Central Florida area, including Orlando, Gainesville, Tampa, as well as Jacksonville, etc. Workshop pricing is individual and depending upon numerous factors including materials, travel etc. Please contact Tom Hart at hutchowen@gmail.com or thesaw@sequentialartistsworkshop.org to inquire. Our individual faculty members are also available for single workshops in drawing techniques, etc. Please contact thesaw@sequentialartistsworkshop.org to inquire about those.
Online classes, lectures and tutorials Year-long intensive
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Intro Class for Creative Adults, Thursdays July 5 - August 2, 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Apply thesaw (...) sequentialartistsworkshop.org Our Faculty Tom Hart 
Tom Hart is the creator of the Hutch Owen series of graphic novels and books, and has been 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, Nicole Virella, Tintin Pantoja, Yali Lin, Josh Bayer, Brendan Leach and many others. His own work has been nominated for all the major industry awards; his The Collected Hutch Owen was 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 has taught comix and sequential art at schools and institutions all around New York City for 10 years, and has conducted week-long workshops from Maine to Hawaii. In addition to constant comix practice and work, he has studied drama, acting and improvisation in New York and sees creating the Sequential Artists Workshop as the next step of his teaching and learning career. His next book will be Daddy Lightning, in March 2012 from Retrofit, and Let's Get Furious, a 380-page new Hutch Owen collection, also in March 2012, from Top Shelf. Tom Hart's website photo by Seth Kushner Leela Corman Leela Corman studied painting, printmaking and illustration at Massachuesettes College of Art and is the author of three graphic novels. Her newest book t Unterzakhn, published by Schocken/Pantheon, has garnerd rave reviews in The New York Times, Kirkus, Publishers Weekly and other places. Her first, Queen's Day earned her a Xeric Award in 1999 and was called "Music to my eyes" by Scott McCloud. In her successful illustration career, she has illustrated books for major publishers on crafts, fashion, gardening, dating and other topics. She is also an accomplished bellydancer and bellydance instructor. Her website is Dan Stepp Daniel Stepp received his M.F.A. in painting from the New York Academy of Art. He has exhibited in Florida, New York, Canada, and around the U.S. His paintings have been described as American genre. Subjects that his paintings explore are: tools and technology, gender roles in labor, corporate branding, and the transference of myth and archetype onto genre activities. His comic-book series, Humungous Man, humorously playing with myth and archetype, was published by Alternative Comics from 1995-1997. Interview with Dan Stepp Justine Mara Andersen
Justine Mara Andersen was mentored by and learned from top names in the industry, including such luminaries as P. Craig Russell (Elric, Sandman), Val Mayerik (Punisher, Conan), Frank Thorne (Red Sonja), John Workman, Jim Steranko and Jeffrey Catherine Jones, but struck out on her own to create her long-running series Mara, Celtic Shamaness for Fantagraphics as well as working as an inker and illustrator for DC Comics, Image Comics, Wizards of the Coast (D&D, etc.), Lucasfilms and other clients. See more of her work here: http://justinefolio.blogspot.com/
Carrie Guss Writing teacher Carrie Guss currently teaches undergraduate creative writing at the University of Florida, and is finishing up her MFA in Fiction. She has a degree in Politics and Media Studies from Pomona College, where she studied creative nonfiction under David Foster Wallace. She is working on a collection of short stories. She also has an IMDB page for her role as "Zombie Queen" in 2009's The Hell Patrol.
Supporting and visiting faculty to be announced.
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