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- 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
- 177 students, 26 faculty, 35 courses
“Cartooning is a very powerful and intimate medium—it’s all about passion.”
Thomas Woodruff
Chair
- Curriculum at a glance
- 72 credits in studio
- 30 credits in humanities & sciences
- 15 credits in art history
- 3 credits in elective courses
- 35 courses offered, including:
- Animé Wonderland
- Cartooning Portfolio
- Character Design
- Culture and Cartooning
- Design and Build Comics
- Digital Coloring for Cartoonists
- Drawing with Ink for Cartoonists
- Etching and Monoprint as Illustration
- The Gouache Experience
- Hand Lettering
- History of Cartooning
- How to Storyboard a Movie
- Intermediate Digital Portfolio
- Life Underground/Self Publishing
- Linocut Book Invetions
- Perspective
- Photocopy Zines
- Principles of Cartooning
- Professional Practice: Cartooning
- Still and Moving: Low-Tech Animation
- Storytelling I: Artist's Books
- Watercolor Techniques
- Web Comics
- Writing for the Comics
