The only bad thing that happened this weekend was that I forgot my camera, so the photo essay you see below is compiled by photos swiped from various sources on the internet!
The school is a really neat place. The main building is an old department store downtown, that they have refurbished into a school. I think it's neat that they've maintained some of the characteristics from days of yore in the building, like the Colody's sign they discovered when cleaning the place and restored. Below is the lobby, which had an exhibit of original comics art pages. This in itself was worth the trip to me. By seeing the original art page it's possible to analyze the artist's process in a way you can't when you see the work in print.
In the basement is every kind of imaginable printing equipment from electronic to silkscreen.
In a separate building is the Charles Shulz library. There the students have access to a huge collection of cartoon and comic reference books and anthologies.
Alec Longstreth was my guide. Unfortunately he wasn't teaching that day, but it was cool to meet him. He is unbelievably tall, while still being down to earth.
In my next post, I'll write a little about the actual workshop.
3 comments:
Who would have guessed! A school for cartoonists - amazing, just plain amazing. You must have been in a kind of cartoonist's heaven!
Did you learn anything in the class you sat in on?
The class I observed was a computer class, so everything was new to me. I'm not sure I'll apply any of it, but it was neat to see.
If I were 18 and had the life plan of being a cartoonist, I would go to this school.
18?! I'm 25, my wife's 26, and we've been kicking around the idea of going there for our MFAs :-} The school sounds (and thanks to your pictures) looks amazing. But the fact they aren't accredited nationally yet is kind of a turn off. They also say they encourage applicants with English degrees (like me), but their course load is art heavy :-(
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