The Cartoon Art Museum Presents:

Cartooning Classes for Adults
Summer 2009 Sessions
Saturday, June 14; Sunday June 15, 1:00 - 4:00pm
Saturday, July 11; Sunday July 12, 1:00 - 4:00pm
Saturday, August 8; Sunday August 9, 1:00 - 4:00pm

Cost per class:  $100 per two-day session, $50 per one-day session, with discounted tuition for CAM members
Register for The Cartoon Art Museum's Adult Classes - Summer 2009
Classes will focus on cartooning, character design, and comics.
Each 2-day session is a new course, so you may register for all three sessions. Classes are designed as 2-day workshops but you may also attend single days as well.
Classes are Saturdays and Sundays from 1 to 4 pm.

June 13 and 14
July 11 and 12
August 8 and 9

$100 per 2-day session or $50 for a single day ($90/$40 for members) To register call 415-227-8666 x303 or email: education@cartoonart.org

Defining the Project
Instructor: Brian Kolm
Level: Beginning/Intermediate - Adult
Days: June 13-14, 2009

Are you thinking about working on a personal comic or cartoon project? Do you need some motivation to get the ball rolling? Come to this hands-on workshop where like-minded creators can work on their projects together. We will go through exercises that will help you explore ideas for stories, settings, and characters for your projects. We will then learn how to take our projects to the next level. We will learn how to outline our stories, as well as design the characters and settings that will help bring the story and character ideas to life.

Characters, Storyboards, and Layout
Instructor: Daniel Salcido
Level: Beginning/Intermediate - Adult
Days: July 11-12, 2009

Do you have a great idea for a comic strip, comic book, web-comic or cartoon? In this class we will go over the basic breakdown of the human form as well as basic design methods and a "things to consider" check list for designing characters. Once we have our characters, we will go over the basics of story boarding, and creating thumbnails and page layouts, which are a crucial part of story development and pre-production. By the end of this class, not only will you have a character for your concept, but you will also be well on your way to starting final production on it.

From Comic Strips to Animation
Instructor: James Hummel
Level: Beginning/Intermediate - Adult
Days: August 8-9, 2009

This class will talk about the transition from comic strips to the animated cartoon. We will discuss how the animation industry began and how it grew to where it is today. Then we will go through some of the basic principles of animation and talk about how animated movies, television shows and commercials are produced. Exercises will include creating flipbooks to illustrate storyboarding, key poses and in-betweening. We will also do exercises in gesture and proportion and incorporate our character(s) into a scene.

Cartoons Are Serious Business:
A Cartooning Workshop with Keith Knight,
Creator of the ‘K’ Chronicles, (th)ink and the Knight Life

Cartoon Art Museum Class: Sunday, September 21, 2008, 1:00 - 4:00pm
Cost per class: $100; $90 for CAM members



On Sunday, September 21, 2008, the Cartoon Art Museum is offering another installment in its ongoing series of workshops for aspiring comic artists, writers and fans of all ages. Each class is taught by a professional cartoonist focusing on an area of his or her expertise, ranging from character creation and story development to writing and drawing comic books and strips.

Keith Knight, 2007 Harvey Award winner and creator of the syndicated comics the 'K' Chronicles, the Knight Life and (th)ink, will conduct an intensive three-hour workshop for aspiring cartoonists, entitled Cartoons Are Serious Business. The cost of this class is $100 per student for the general public, and $90 per student for members of the Cartoon Art Museum.

Mr. Knight will be drawing upon his 15 years as a self-syndicated cartoonist for this intensive workshop, which is an advanced class for people looking to make cartooning a viable money-making career. This workshop will focus on the business side of comics, from marketing and promotions to dealing with syndicates and negotiating publishing contracts. In the past decade, Knight's work has appeared in self-published 'zines, major newspapers, alternative newsweeklies, professional comic anthologies and major nationally-distributed publications including ESPN: The Magazine and Mad, he has promoted his work at more than 100 comic conventions and trade shows, and he has delivered lectures on cartooning at colleges and universities throughout the United States.

This is an encore presentation of a class Knight taught at the Cartoon Art Museum in 2006. Since then, he has launched a daily comic strip with King Features Syndicate, won numerous awards and signed a deal to produce a 200-page graphic novel. He has a lot more stuff to tell people.

Keith Knight is a Boston-born, Los Angeles-based cartoonist whose three syndicated comics, the 'K 'Chronicles, the Knight Life and (th)ink, can be found in newspapers, magazines and websites all across the country. He is also a rapper with the semi-conscious hip-hop group, the Marginal Prophets. For more information, please visit his website, www.kchronicles.com <http://www.kchronicles.com>

Class size is limited, and each class is filled on a first-come, first-served basis. Basic drawing materials will be provided, but students are encouraged to purchase sketchbooks and their own drawing implements. To register or for more information about the workshop, please contact Diane Shapiro Sommerfield at (415) CAR-TOON, ext. 303, or via e-mail at education@cartoonart.org.