SANTORO CORRESPONDENCE COURSE
March 1st – 8 week course – Full course – layouts, color, figure drawing – you will make a 16 page comic over the 8 weeks. 500$
April 9th – 3 week course – Color Workshop. 200$
April 23rd – 1 week course – Landscape / Figure drawing intensive. 100$
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If you are serious about taking the any of the courses – please email me capneasyATgmailDOTcom – and I will send you an invite to the private course blog that exists for the course that is just now wrapping up. You can see for yourself what it is all about.
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APPLICATION DEADLINE FOR ALL COURSES IS FRIDAY FEB 24th.
Classes are limited to 10 students.
Application guidelines:
-submit one six page comic you have written and drawn in the last year – meaning a comic that is AT LEAST six pages long – if you have never drawn a comic before then show me what you can do in terms of sequencing…
-3 figure drawings done on 3 x 5 index cards
-3 landscape drawings done on 3 x 5 index cards
-email me jpgs – not too big – by Feb 24th –
capneasyATgmailDOTcom
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Overseas students are welcome. Last course had two Brits and two Aussies. I can understand French pretty well too.
Payment plans are available. I will work with you. Take the course. It is worth it!
Who the hell am I? I’ve been drawing comics since 1988 – and writing about comics since 1995. I’ve taught drawing at Parsons. My work has been exhibited at the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York and at the Fumetto comics festival in Switzerland. I have worked as an assistant to fine arts painters such as Francesco Clemente, Dorothea Rockburne and Gary Panter. Many of my paintings are in the collection of Bruno Bischofberger. My comic Storeyville is, allegedly, one of Chris Ware’s favorites. I’ve collaborated with Ben Jones. I was in a drawing contest against the French master Blutch – and it was deemed a tie! I have appeared in two volumes of Kramers Ergot. I am working with Dash Shaw on an animation project. I worked for the silkscreen wizard Frank Kozik. I am friends with Yuichi Yokoyama. I got into a yelling match with Brian Chippendale because I’m against photo-referencing. Jaime Hernandez taught me where all the freeways meet in Los Angeles.
You will never meet someone as enthusiastic about the form as little ol’ me. And I will share that enthusiasm with you and make you a better cartoonist. I’m a great coach. Just ask the girls roller derby team I coach in New Mexico.
I’m applying for this. $500 is chump change compared to even a summer course at CCS, SVA, or any comparable institution. Simply through his Comics Comics and TCJ writing, Frank has already been an important influence on the way I think about comics. This one is highly recommended, folks.