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Comics Education: Art School Confidential Addendum

By Tom Kaczynski Posted On August 14, 2010 Academy, Comics, Theory 4 Comments

This is a small addendum to the last post. Jason Overby & J.T. Dockery (via comments) reminded me of another later interview where Dan Clowes recanted his Gary Panter comments. I dug around in my Comics Journals and found the relevant quote: One guy whose work I once said flippant, dismissive things about in

Comics Education: Art School Confidential

By Tom Kaczynski Posted On August 12, 2010 Academy, Comics, Theory 11 Comments

This is a continuation of three previous posts on comics and education: one, two, three. Today, I continue with the ‘comics renaissance’ I started writing about in this post. Rough time period: late 70’s to late 90’s. Here’s is an appropriate prelude for this post: [Jack] Kirby enrolled at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn,