- Being a cartoonist is more than a career—it’s a calling
- SVA is one of the first colleges to offer cartooning as a major
- We teach both classical techniques and new digital production
- 167 students, 24 faculty, 28 courses
“An industry executive called the School of Visual Arts the ‘Harvard of Cartooning’ and we cannot disagree.”
Thomas Woodruff
Chair
- Curriculum at a glance
- 72 credits in studio
- 30 credits in humanities & sciences
- 12 credits in art history
- 6 credits in elective courses
- 28 courses offered, including:
- Cartooning Portfolio
- Collage Illustration
- Culture Survey
- Digital Coloring for Cartoonists
- Drawing with Ink for Cartoonists
- Etching and Monoprint as Illustration
- Figurative Sculpture
- Foundations of Visual Computing
- Hand Lettering
- History of Cartooning
- Intermediate Digital Portfolio
- Pastel Techniques
- Perspective
- Photocopy Zines
- Pictorial Problems
- Principles of Cartooning
- Professional Practice: Cartooning
- Sculpture
- Still and Moving: Low-Tech Animation
- Storytelling
- The Gouache Experience
- Watercolor Techniques
