Teaching
A BIT OF PHILOSPHY.
I’m reminded of a comment from a interview with a Walt Kelly, who stated (somewhat adamantly): “You have to be articulate!”
In my teaching, I try to focus on learning the craft of storytelling as a way of being articulate. Of giving yourself the largest vocabulary possible, but also to give you a deep understanding of how to maneuver, access and control that vocabulary.
More importantly, in learning that vocabulary, we often learn what it is we WANT TO SAY. By working deeply and by paying attention, our own unthought thoughts and hidden aspects of our emotional narrative can reveal themselves. In other words, what I try to teach is discovering what it is you want to say and how to best say it. Through exercises and personal connection, I hope to bring you to a new place with your own ideas and inspiration, while giving you the tools to connect with your readers.
My students over the course of my 7 years of teaching continually thank me for helping them learn to access their creative fire, but also to organize it. For giving them the ability to literally find new life on the page, and the tools to keep it alive and find purchase in the mind of a reader.
Huzzah!
Fall 2007: I’m teaching two Continuing Ed classes this fall: Mondays at the SVA and Tuesdays at the 92nd Street Y. teaching/
The classes are pretty similar, though the 92nd Street Y class is much more about comic strips, and the focus will be on short form much more than the SVA class.
Prospective or active SVA Students: click here | 92nd Street Y Students, click here
Registration pages for upcoming adult classes:
- 92nd St Y, From Gag to Strip, Tuesday Evenings starting Sept 25
- SVA: Advanced Cartooning (How Comics Rule), Monday Evenings starting September 17
