# comic books? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 27, 2001, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-books/89944 "2001-10-27T07:17:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![\_misfit\_57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/9fc348/32.png) [@\_misfit\_57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_misfit_57)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-books/89944/1 "2001-10-27T07:17:08Z")
I’ve always been a major fan of them–that was what really got me into drawing when i was in grade school, and now that i’m a semi-grownup, i’m looking for a few things… 1. Does anyone know of any college/uni/school with a good ‘sequential arts’ or ‘cartooning’ program? 2. i’m a big fan of pretty much anything coming out of Fantagraphics Books (Eightball, Love & Rockets) : the company refers to their style as ‘thinker’s comics.’ any other good companies out there to be keeping an eyeball on? i don’t figure most of you will have any clues but i thought it was worth a shot at least… 😃 well thanx. ---
**Author:** ![Asylum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/53a042/32.png) [@Asylum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asylum)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-books/89944/2 "2001-10-27T09:18:46Z")
Only school I know of is the [Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art](http://www.joekubert.com/kubertschool/kubertschool.htm) As far as other books to check out [Oni Press](http://www.onipress.com/) is making a name for themselves. Also [Image Central](http://www.imagecomics.com/) has been doing some interesting stuff lately too. Check out [The Red Star](http://www.theredstar.com/) for a good example. Not quite **Eightball** or **Love & Rockets** but still pretty damn cool. Oh yeah, also check out the [Small Press Expo](http://spxpo.com/) site. Lots of links to underground artists there. ---
**Author:** ![GrandfatherTrout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f17d59/32.png) [@GrandfatherTrout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandfatherTrout)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-books/89944/3 "2001-10-27T14:32:49Z")
Another school you could look into is the [School of Visual Arts](http://http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/sva.html), also in NYC. They offer a 4-year BFA in Cartooning that has produced a number of current comics artists. ---
**Author:** ![Skip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@Skip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skip)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-books/89944/4 "2001-10-27T14:42:08Z")
**Alan Moore’s** _America’s Best Comics_\* (an imprint of Wildstorm which is an imprint of DC) makes some great comics especially **Top 10** about a police precinct in a world where EVERYONE has superpowers. ---
**Author:** ![\_misfit\_57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/9fc348/32.png) [@\_misfit\_57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_misfit_57)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-books/89944/5 "2001-10-27T22:33:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by GrandfatherTrout \* > \*\*Another school you could look into is the [School of Visual Arts](http://http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/sva.html), also in NYC. They offer a 4-year BFA in Cartooning that has produced a number of current comics artists. \*\* We get a poster from SVA in my art class every yr and i never really gave them a lot of thought. _eep_ _feel slightly stupid now-then_ I was thinking of just going for a graphic design associate degree @ AI pittsburgh or something, and studying illustration either after that or just work on illustration independently. I’m in the development process with a story i wrote a few years back and i’ve got a few pages done for my AP Art Studio ‘quality work’ folder. (unfortunately we haven’t put the school computers online so i havent had a chance to scan them in yet…_sigh_ ---
**Author:** ![\_misfit\_57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/9fc348/32.png) [@\_misfit\_57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_misfit_57)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-books/89944/6 "2001-10-27T22:46:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Asylum \* > \*\*Only school I know of is the [Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art](http://www.joekubert.com/kubertschool/kubertschool.htm) > > As far as other books to check out [Oni Press](http://www.onipress.com/) is making a name for themselves. Also [Image Central](http://www.imagecomics.com/) has been doing some interesting stuff lately too. Check out [The Red Star](http://www.theredstar.com/) for a good example. Not quite **Eightball** or **Love & Rockets** but still pretty damn cool. > > Oh yeah, also check out the [Small Press Expo](http://spxpo.com/) site. Lots of links to underground artists there. \*\* ok am checkin out the sites you posted. incidentally…so y’re also a fan of Fantagraphics then? (i absolutely adore their stuff and my penultimate goal as an artist is to work for them someday. Dan Clowes is my god. _sniffle_ sadly i very rarely get stuff from them unless i order it (as me town is small and ignorant)–and i’ve been broke as hell since this summer…_sheepish_) ---
**Author:** ![Pollo\_Boyo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a4c791/32.png) [@Pollo\_Boyo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pollo_Boyo)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-books/89944/7 "2001-10-27T23:01:25Z")
SCAD (Savannah College of Art & Design) has a very good sequential art program. In fact, I went to a comic book discussion panel the summer before my senior year of High School…Dave Sim excused himself every 5 minutes for a cigarette. Literally. BTW: For some darker humour, don’t pass up Johnny the Homicidal Maniac or Squee. ---
**Author:** ![\_misfit\_57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/9fc348/32.png) [@\_misfit\_57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_misfit_57)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-books/89944/8 "2001-10-27T23:17:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Pollo Boyo \* > \*\*SCAD (Savannah College of Art & Design) has a very good sequential art program. In fact, I went to a comic book discussion panel the summer before my senior year of High School…Dave Sim excused himself every 5 minutes for a cigarette. Literally. > > BTW: For some darker humour, don’t pass up Johnny the Homicidal Maniac or Squee. \*\* another school from the bulletin board i kind of passed over… ---
**Author:** ![misfit\_57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ed655f/32.png) [@misfit\_57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misfit_57)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2001, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-books/89944/9 "2001-10-28T22:05:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Skip \* > \*_ **Alan Moore’s** America’s Best Comics_ (an imprint of Wildstorm which is an imprint of DC) makes some great comics especially **Top 10** about a police precinct in a world where EVERYONE has superpowers. \*\* ugh…wildstorm?? i don’t like them–that’s Jim Lee’s company, right? 😛 no offense, but he was part of the reason i stopped liking Xmen…i mean, very talented guy but i guess i just couldn’t get into the style…(i’m a stylemonger when it comes to comics–i like them a certain way, and his is NOT it.) ---
**Author:** ![Kamandi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5daacb/32.png) [@Kamandi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamandi)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2001, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-books/89944/10 "2001-10-28T22:19:10Z")
**=^_\>_^= misfit#57** and **misfit#57** What the hell is going on with your user names? Are you related? Friends? Lovers? Is one of you stalking the other? Is one of you a sock? Are you just trying to confuse the rest of us? ---
**Author:** ![misfit\_57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ed655f/32.png) [@misfit\_57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misfit_57)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2001, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-books/89944/11 "2001-10-28T22:35:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kamandi \* > **_=^\>_^= misfit#57** and **misfit#57** > What the hell is going on with your user names? > Are you related? > Friends? > Lovers? > Is one of you stalking the other? > Is one of you a sock? > Are you just trying to confuse the rest of us? \*\* it’s all me. i’m one person…wth formerly two names. go to the cool usernames thread for a short piece of the whole story… ---
**Author:** ![Kamandi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5daacb/32.png) [@Kamandi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamandi)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2001, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-books/89944/12 "2001-10-28T23:08:05Z")
Thanks