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Introduction to Comic Book Art

$595.00

Join professional artist Jeff Johnson (Amazing Spider-Man, Way of the Rat, Green Lantern)  as he teaches you everything you need to know about comic book storytelling in this dynamic six-week class.

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Introduction to Lettering Comics

$595.00

Join pro Sean Rinehart for a six-week course on lettering and production work. There’s a lot more to lettering than digitally pasting words onto the page. Avoid the pitfalls of unprofessional lettering by training with Sean!

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Professional Best Practices: The Art of Being a Working Comic Creator

Professional Best Practices: The Art of Being a Working Comic Creator

$99.99

Breaking into comics is one thing–actually creating a career in comics where publishers, collaborators, and editors want to work with you again and again is something else entirely. Instructor Andy Schmidt is a comics writer, editor and publisher. In all those roles, he’s found common traits that every creator with a career has in spades. This course shines a light on “the Intangibles” of being a working professional and gives you a head start on building a long and successful career.

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Writing: Story Foundations

Comics Writing: Story Foundations & Development

$149.00

Your story starts here! Learn how to methodically build a story from the ground up, narrative structure, character building, and much more.

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Writing for a Visual Medium

Comics Writing: Writing for a Visual Medium

$149.00

In the Foundations course, you learned how to build a story. In this course, you’ll learn how to develop any story for a visual medium. What is it about comics specifically, that’s going to effect how you tell your story? How do you script so that your artist will get the most out of your script–or just as importantly, that you don’t tie one of your artist’s drawing hands behind their back.

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Finishing Your Script and Next Steps

Comics Writing: Finishing a Script and Next Steps

$149.00

The most overlooked part of creative writing education is rewriting and what to do after your finished! Here, we’ve dedicated a course to reviewing your work, how to attack a rewrite to make sure that your work improves. Doing so without destroying the good work you’ve already done, and using a scalpel instead of a sledgehammer.

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Express Course Bundle: Comic Book Contracts Pack

Express Course Bundle: Comic Book Contracts Pack

$50.00

The concepts of intellectual property generate billions of dollars for companies like DC, Marvel, and Viz. If you want to benefit from the business and legal power of your comics, you need to understand what the publishers do. This bundle pack of our Community Pro Lessons will get you started by highlighting the basics of copyrights, trademarks, and the contracts that define them.

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Introduction to Comic Book Writing Bundle

Introduction to Comic Book Writing Bundle

$399.00

If you’ve ever dreamt of writing your own comic or wanted to improve your existing skills – this class bundle is for you.

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Sale! Coloring: Tools, Art Preparation and Flatting

Coloring: Tools, Art Preparation and Flatting

Original price was: $149.00.Current price is: $104.00.

In our earliest coloring course, you’ll learn what tools are needed to color comics, how to use them for that purpose, what your art should look like and how to prep it for coloring.

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Sale! Coloring: Color Theory and Application to Comics

Coloring: Color Theory and Application to Comics

Original price was: $149.00.Current price is: $104.00.

In this course, you’ll learn not just what color theory is, but how it applies to comics specifically. Comics are rarely just one illustration or image, they are comprised of multiple images on a page, that all have to have balance within themselves and with all the other images. 

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Sale! Coloring: Lighting & Rendering

Coloring: Lighting & Rendering

Original price was: $149.00.Current price is: $104.00.

One of the most important aspects of comics coloring today is paying attention to and establishing light sources. That also means understanding how they affect the true color of objects and figures. Master color artist Chris Sotomayor has been rendering comics since the 1990s and was one of the pioneers in digital coloring. Now he’s going to teach you the best techniques in the book–a book that he wrote, by the way.

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Sale! Coloring: Special Effects

Coloring: Special Effects

Original price was: $99.00.Current price is: $69.00.

In this special micro-course, Chris Sotomayor teaches how to add on special effects to your colored pages. Special effects aren’t always necessary, but when you need one, or have the right place for one, they can really help a piece pop and sell the the page.

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Sale! Introduction to Comic Book Coloring Bundle

Introduction to Comic Book Coloring Bundle

Original price was: $399.00.Current price is: $279.00.

Learn how to color comics from a pro! This bundle contains a discounted price for the first three courses in our series to teach you how to color comics from the ground up! PLUS, you get the bonus course on Special Effects FOR FREE!

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Comic Book Editing & Project Management

Comic Book Editing & Project Management

$249.00

Find collaborators, manage budgets, timetables, bring the best out of your writers and artists, problem solve, and make a professional-level project!

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Advanced YA and MG Graphic Novels: Pitching and Publishing

Advanced YA and MG Graphic Novels: Pitching and Publishing

$249.00

Young Adult and Middle Grade graphic novels are not only a booming industry, but also a great way to introduce younger readers to comics and ignite a love of reading. Creating comics for teens and tweens comes with its own set of challenges and standards, and Sarah is here to share her knowledge of the market with you.

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Comics Writing: Story Arcs & Ongoing Series

Comics Writing: Story Arcs & Ongoing Series

$249.00

Acclaimed comics writer Fred Van Lente takes you through the necessary steps to craft compelling story arcs and ongoing comic book narratives exactly like professional comic book writers do it.

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