Autobiographical Comic Book: Illustrate Your Experiences
An Overview of Comics
A course by Alec Longstreth, Cartoonist
About the video: An Overview of Comics
Overview
“Comics are one of the most direct storytelling mediums, allowing an individual creator to communicate directly with the reader. This is why it’s the perfect medium for sharing autobiographical stories. ”
In this video lesson Alec Longstreth addresses the topic: An Overview of Comics, which is part of the Domestika online course: Autobiographical Comic Book: Illustrate Your Experiences. Learn how to write, pencil, and ink a comic based on your personal experiences, from the initial idea to the finished page.
Partial transcription of the video
“In the previous lesson, we looked at some tools that we can use for our cartooning. And we introduced the idea of a one-page comic that we're going to work on in this course. In this lesson, we're going to start talking about some of the big ideas of comics and what you need to be thinking about when you start cartooning. Comics is one of the most direct storytelling mediums. It's great for autobiocomics because it's just you, the creator, speaking directly to your reader. and it can just be created by one person. Even just this setup of me talking to you on the camera took tons of people. ...”
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Course summary for: Autobiographical Comic Book: Illustrate Your Experiences
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Comic, Communication, Digital Illustration, Ink Illustration, Narrative, Pencil Drawing, Storytelling, Traditional illustration, Writing
Alec Longstreth
A course by Alec Longstreth
Alec Longstreth is a cartoonist, freelance illustrator, and teacher living in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He first fell in love with comics thanks to his grandfather who would read them in the newspaper, and soon began exploring iconic titles at his local comic shop and public library. Alec quickly fell in love with Disney comics in particular, and drew a six-page comic at just 12 years old that won a prize at a local art competition.
He started drawing comics seriously while studying technical theater at Oberlin College. Alec’s comics were featured in the student newspaper, and after graduating, he began self-publishing them. Since then, he has released 24 issues of his minicomic Phase 7, and won awards for both his first and second comic project, Isle of Elsi. He later moved to New York City to study illustration at Pratt Institute and launched his freelance illustration career, working with Highlights Magazine, National Geographic Kids, and Nickelodeon. Alongside creating art, Alec teaches workshops to students as the Director of Academic Outreach at The Center for Cartoon Studies.
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