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Marnie Galloway

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Marnie Galloway (she/her) is an award-winning cartoonist and artist best known for her Xeric Award winning wordless graphic novel In the Sounds and Seas, as well as the comics Burrow, Particle/Wave, and Slightly Plural. Her comics have appeared in Best American Comics, The New York Times, PEN America, Cricket Magazine, Saveur Magazine, and MUTHA Magazine, and select illustration clients include Cambridge University Press, RIT Press, 826CHI, Narratively, Muse Magazine, and Chicago Review Press. Marnie formerly served as an organizer of the Chicago Alternative Comics Expo (CAKE), and as designer and art director at Cicada and Muse magazines at Cricket Magazine Group. 

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Description

This course focuses on developing and refining the writing and cartooning skills required to make short fiction comics. In this class we will explore the rhythms of literary storytelling, discuss the formal elements of comics, develop composition and inking skills, create short comics to build foundations of comics storytelling, and finish the semester by self-publishing a collection of the comics we made through the semester. Required readings supplement the studio assignments, which will include short fiction comics, poems, flash fiction, and excerpts from graphic novels.

Class Number

1708

Credits

3

Description

The Department of Painting and Drawing offers a wide variety of comics courses, ranging from traditional to experimental methods and techniques. Each course is designed to focus on a specific area of comics production. To learn more about the topic of a specific comics course in which you are interested, please review the course description for that particular class.

Class Number

1655

Credits

3