Courses
SAMPLE CLASS; Watch for New Semester: Writing Longform Comics: Graphic Novels & Series With Jim Higgins 5:00 pm-8:00 pm PT $450.00
Instead of focusing on doing a short comics story like in the Making Comics class, this eight-week class focuses on writing a detailed outline for a graphic novel, a miniseries, or the first story arc of an ongoing series. Any subject matter, any genre, even non-fiction. The story is workshopped in detail, the structure is analyzed, and the writer makes final decisions about what’s in and out, all with the aid of the group, finishing with a scene by scene outline. There will be lots of...
Interested? Call for next dates — Jim Higgins ~ Making Comics: A Class for Writers and Artists 5pm – 8pm PT~ $495.00
Supplies: The supplies needed will depend on whether or not the student is drawing their comic and if they are working on paper or digitally. This will be discussed in the first session. The workshop, via Zoom, is led by Jim Higgins, who’s been a writer and editor in the comics business for over 25 years. He’s worked as a screenwriter and been a comics consultant for films and TV. He was an editor and assistant editor at DC Comics/Paradox Press and is the editor and publisher of New Thing, an...
Missed This, Call For Next Dates — Jim Higgins ~ Making Comics: A Class for Writers and Artists April 17 to July 10, 5pm – 8pm PT~ $495.00
Learn the most important aspect of writing — how to structure a story as it relates to the medium of comics and graphic novels. In this workshop, writers and cartoonists learn the essential knowledge needed to write a story with interesting characters, real emotion, an engaging plot, and a satisfying ending. Artists will be given drawing tips, instruction about technique, and examples of work by great masters, new and old, to help with visual storytelling, composition, light and dark, figure...