Jim Higgins

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The language of comics is all its own. It has rules and grammar and syntax that are unlike any other language or narrative medium. Though it has similarities to film, animation and illustration, comics use sequential storytelling, time and graphic design in very specific and different ways.
For this class, you’ll be using a series of interesting visual exercises that explore this idea. There will be assignments done in class and some homework along the way. There will be some assignments that will require you to make copies for everyone in the class.

Jim Higgins has been a writer and editor in the comics business for 20 years. He has done rewrites on screenplays and been a comics consultant for films. He was an editor and assistant editor at DC Comics in the Paradox Press division (The Big Book of Grimm, Hoaxes, and the ’70s, plus the graphic novels A History of Violence, Road to Perdition,and Stuck Rubber Baby), and is the editor and publisher of New Thing, an international anthology of short comics stories. He taught comic book storytelling for eight years at The School of Visual Arts in Manhattan and cinema studies at The City University of New York for four and a half. He has taught classes on writing and drawing comics at The California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), UCLA Extension Program, at Otis College of Art and Design, and is the Program Director of the comics classes at Meltdown University at Meltdown Comics in Hollywood.

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