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Sam Sharpe

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Bio

Sam Sharpe (b. 1983; he/him) is a cartoonist, illustrator, and art educator born and raised in Madison, Wisconsin. He received his BFA from Rhode Island School of Design in 2006, where he focused on 16mm live-action filmmaking. Shortly after graduating he moved to Chicago where he became an infrequent participant in the comics collective Trubble Club. City of Chicago Community Artists Grant funded the printing of the first two issues of his comic series Viewotron which has subsequently been nominated for Ignatz and Eisner Awards and was excerpted in Best American Comics 2014. He’s working on his first solo graphic novel titled Mom: A Story of Love and Mental Illness (23rd Street Books, a division of MacMillan) and perennially publishes new issues of his series Viewotron: Comics and Stories (Radiator Press). 

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The Fantastic Magnifico

Courses

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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

1942

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

1961

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

1662

Credits

3