from Childhood Predators story in Kramers Ergot - by Dash Shaw and Frank Santoro
FRANK SANTORO CORRESPONDENCE COURSE for COMIC BOOK MAKERS. NEW COURSE STARTS JANUARY 1st 2013 - Email me capneasyATgmail for application guidelines. I WILL SEND YOU A LINK TO THE LAST COURSE so you can check it out. Ten students per course. 8 week course. 500 bux. Payment plans available. I will work with you. This is the 6th course I have done and I have it down to a science. Great way to study comics for those who can never find the time to make them. Correspondence method works with your schedule. I will show you. You can do it! Applications due by Xmas - unless we all die on Dec 22… http://www.tcj.com/category/columns/riff-raff/page/10/
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ANDREW WHITE of comicsworkbook fame and maker of the image above - was once one of my correspondence students. Check out what Mr. White sez about the course:
I’ve been meaning to talk in more detail about my experience in Frank’s course. You can of course read the product of my time working with him here, and comparing that piece to the comics I’ve done previously is probably the most succinct indication of how thoroughly Frank helped me to rethink my process.
I don’t want to give away too much about the specifics of the course — not just because of all the little secrets Frank reveals over the course of 8 weeks, but also because he has this great way of tricking you into approaching things in new ways by making you do something that seems completely unintuitive — until all of a sudden it isn’t. That was one of the most rewarding parts of the course for me, actually. I had more than a few unexpected moments of realization about my work and even comics in general that I’m not sure I can fully articulate just yet because I’m still working over most of them in my head.
Let me tell you one story, though, that I think illustrates how great of an instructor Frank is and how much you can get out of his course. A few weeks into the course, I had just done a first draft of the colors for one of my pages, and I was pretty happy with it. I thought it looked good. Frank wrote to me, saying that the page looked okay, but that maybe we should get on Skype and talk about it. I don’t remember everything that he said — I should have taken notes, and I made sure to do so for every Skype session afterwards — but whatever he told me made me realize that the page wasn’t working at all. It just clicked. I could see it. My second draft, which I ended up incorporating into the final version of that page, was infinitely better.
I have at least a dozen more stories like that which I could tell, but I’ll just say this: take the course. You won’t regret it.
2013 is shaping up to be a ridiculous year for us. First, we’re publishing a book by two of our very favorite artists (Carol Es and Neil Farber), and now a project with Frank Santoro. This is a dream project for me, and I can wait to get to work on it. More info and full details here.
FRANK SANTORO CORRESPONDENCE COURSE for COMIC BOOK MAKERS. NEW COURSE STARTS JANUARY 1st 2013 - Email me capneasyATgmail for application guidelines. I WILL SEND YOU A LINK TO THE LAST COURSE so you can check it out. Ten students per course. 8 week course. 500 bux. Payment plans available. I will work with you. This is the 6th course I have done and I have it down to a science. Great way to study comics for those who can never find the time to make them. Correspondence method works with your schedule. I will show you. You can do it! Applications due by Xmas - unless we all die on Dec 22… http://www.tcj.com/category/columns/riff-raff/page/10/ - above image from COLD HEAT
FRANK SANTORO CORRESPONDENCE COURSE for COMIC BOOK MAKERS. NEW COURSE STARTS JANUARY 1st 2013 - Email me capneasyATgmail for application guidelines. I WILL SEND YOU A LINK TO THE LAST COURSE so you can check it out. Ten students per course. 8 week course. 500 bux. Payment plans available. I will work with you. This is the 6th course I have done and I have it down to a science. Great way to study comics for those who can never find the time to make them. Correspondence method works with your schedule. I will show you. You can do it! Applications due by Xmas - unless we all die on Dec 22… http://www.tcj.com/category/columns/riff-raff/page/10/
Kill kill killNews: Seraph has been selected for the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, Shorts Program. I’ve never been to the festival before. I hope to be back again with the feature — We’re working on it!
End of the fucking world blues
FRANK SANTORO CORRESPONDENCE COURSE for COMIC BOOK MAKERS. NEW COURSE STARTS JANUARY 1st 2013 - Email me capneasyATgmail for application guidelines. Ten students per course. 8 week course. 500 bux. Payment plans available. I will work with you. This is the 6th course I have done and I have it down to a science. Great way to study comics for those who can never find the time to make them. Correspondence method works with your schedule. I will show you. You can do it! Applications due by Xmas - unless we all die on Dec 22… http://www.tcj.com/category/columns/riff-raff/page/10/
TONITE
SANTORO CON AT COPACETIC COMICS
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
SATURDAY DECEMBER 1st - 6 to 11pm
hosted by Frank Santoro and Bill Boichel
appearances by Tom Scioli, Ed Piskor and Jim Rugg
Frank will lead an informal workshop talk at 830
Wacky back issue holiday sale. Frank’s curated comics boxes are here to cure your holiday ramp up blues. Plus super deals from Bill’s Copacetic Comics collection. Bill and Frank will be pulling some gems out of the vault for this one folks. Come on down just to talk shop or talk shit. Comics Club partytime! PITTSBURGH! Polish Hill!
for directions: http://www.copaceticcomics.com
Sarah Fitzgerald is my hero
SANTORO CON AT COPACETIC COMICS
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
SATURDAY DECEMBER 1st - 6 to 11pm
hosted by Frank Santoro and Bill Boichel
appearances by Tom Scioli, Ed Piskor and Jim Rugg
Frank will lead an informal workshop talk at 830
Wacky back issue holiday sale. Frank’s curated comics boxes are here to cure your holiday ramp up blues. Plus super deals from Bill’s Copacetic Comics collection. Bill and Frank will be pulling some gems out of the vault for this one folks. Come on down just to talk shop or talk shit. Comics Club partytime! PITTSBURGH! Polish Hill!
for directions: http://www.copaceticcomics.com
left to right Johnny Ryan, Jaime Hernandez, Ron Rege, Jordan Crane, Sammy Harkham, Frank Santoro
FRANK SANTORO CORRESPONDENCE COURSE for COMIC BOOK MAKERS. NEW COURSE STARTS JANUARY 1st 2013 - Email me capneasyATgmail for application guidelines. Ten students per course. 8 week course. 500 bux. Payment plans available. I will work with you. This is the 6th course I have done and I have it down to a science. Great way to study comics for those who can never find the time to make them. Correspondence method works with your schedule. I will show you. You can do it! Applications due by Xmas - unless we all die on Dec 22… http://www.tcj.com/category/columns/riff-raff/page/10/
CHECK OUT BRANDON’s METHODHere’s what I sent Giannis to work his comic book magic on for Prophet #31.
Hopefully it save some time to show him what I’m thinking like this as opposed to him having to translate ideas into layouts. deadlines and alllll
And then he can Egg Shen them—“take what we want and leave the rest. Just like your salad bar.”
