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The Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art, commonly known as The Kubert School or Joe Kubert School, is a private for-profit art school focused on cartooning and located in Dover, New Jersey. It teaches the principles of sequential art and the particular craft of the comics industry as well as commercial illustration .
The Center for Cartoon Studies was founded by cartoonist James Sturm and professor Michelle Ollie [1] in 2004, with its first class of 18 students in the Fall of 2005. [5] The first class of students were accepted less on the quality of their drawing and more on their critical thinking skills, literary merit, storytelling abilities, and curiosity.
Comics studies (also comic art studies, sequential art studies [1] or graphic narrative studies) [2] is an academic field that focuses on comics and sequential art.Although comics and graphic novels have been generally dismissed as less relevant pop culture texts, scholars in fields such as semiotics, aesthetics, sociology, composition studies and cultural studies are now re-considering comics ...
Joseph Kubert (/ ˈ k juː b ər t /; [2] September 18, 1926 – August 12, 2012) was a Polish-born American comic book artist, art teacher, and founder of The Kubert School.He is best known for his work on the DC Comics characters Sgt. Rock and Hawkman.
The school was founded as the Federal School of Applied Cartooning in 1914 as a branch of the Bureau of Engraving, Inc., to train illustrators for both the growing printing industry and the Bureau itself. Artists who received this training through these home study courses entered the fields of newspapers, printing and advertising. [1]
Nelson DeCastro (early 1990s) — comic book artist and illustrator; Dennis Detwiller (early 1990s) – comic book artist, collectible card game illustrator (Magic: The Gathering) and video game designer (Scarface: The World is Yours) Jordan B. Gorfinkel (early 1990s) — DC Comics editor, Batman
In the year 2011, the school changed its name to Syn Studio, and started offering regular onsite art classes to artists. [5] In June 2014, the school ran a Concept Art & Design Masterclass with renowned American concept artist Scott Robertson. [6] In May 2015, the school hosted a Comics Salon event in celebration of Free Comic Book Day. [7]
While pre-war story papers had produced female-orientated titles such as the original School Friend and Girls' Crystal, in the aftermath of World War II comic books such as Amalgamated Press' Comic Cuts and Knockout or DC Thomson's The Dandy and The Beano were considered unisex titles, and were primarily humorous in content.