Creating Comic Books

Formerly Youth Comic Drawing

Grades 6–8

About the Instructors

Create compelling comic books and graphic novels! In this two-week program, learn to storyboard the
perfect camera angles for your next
film or Web video! The drawing skills
and storytelling principles used in
comics, film/video and video games
will be revealed as you plan, draw,
and polish your project from layouts
to finished inks. You can either turn
your own story into a visual reality or
work from a script supplied by the instructor. Whether your project’s genre is action, comedy, super hero, historical, horror, humor, or romance, you’ll gain the knowledge to make it clear, compelling, and entertaining!

To broaden exposure to the arts, Creating Comic Books can be combined with Young Artists, Young Architects (new!), Youth Musical Theatre, Young Bards, Young Photographers, Young Filmmakers, the Songwriting Workshop, and/or Choral Conservatory to make for a well-rounded summer experience.

Session II: July 9–20
Monday–Friday, 9:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m.
$1,165 for the first registration
$1,045 for the second registration in the family, Purchase College employees and alumni, and early registrations (received by May 4, 2012)

About the Instructors

Carl Potts returns as lead instructor. He is an instructor at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and has served on the editorial staff of Marvel Comics for 13 years. As executive editor, he was in charge of one third of the company’s publications. In 1994, he became editor-in-chief of two publishing divisions, including Epic, Marvel’s line of creator-owned titles. During the height of its publishing success, most of the X-Men titles were produced by talent Carl discovered and mentored, including Jim Lee, Whilce Portacio, Scott Williams, and Larry Stroman.