National Association of Comics Art Educators - Comics and Graphic Novels in the Classroom

Savannah College of Art and Design (GA) offers a B.F.A. and M.F.A. in Sequential Art

School of Visual Arts (New York, NY) offers a B.F.A. in Cartooning

California State University-Fullerton

Cornish College of the Arts (Seattle, WA)

Memphis College of Art (TN)

Monserrat College of Art (BeverIy, MA)

Rhode Island School of Design (Providence, RI)

The Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art, Inc. (Dover, NJ)

Online Syllabi for Comics Courses From the Comics Scholars' Discussion List website.

Oubapo-America The "Workshop for Potential Comics." Based on perpetually testing the limits of the medium through applied and practical formal exercises and challenges (inspired by the French Oubapo and Oulipo groups).

StoryArk Comics and Cartoon Workshops Workshops to teach writing and drawing comics to children organized and taught by Tom Hart and Laura Weinstein.

Teaching Comics to 4-6th Graders By Matt Levin.

Writing For Comics Several lessons and essays on the buildings blocks of writing for comics, by Marc Fleury.

DIY: Making Comics: The Technical Stuff Very thorough, yet concise descriptions by Jessica Abel on the technical aspects of making comics (including materials and the creative process step-by-step).

Comics in Education High School Teacher and Cartoonist, Gene Yang, presents his final project for his Master's in Education about the benefits of comics in education.

Comics: A Multi-dimensional Teaching Aid in Integrated-skills ClassesA well-organized, brief study of the benefits of comics as authentic material for learning languages (includes a bibliography).

The Humble Comic: Possibilities for Developing Literacy Skills and Learning ContentA study by S. Kerr and T.H. Culhane from the Pearson Learning Group on the potential of comics as a learning tool for children towards attaining literacy (includes a bibliography; note:this is a PDF document).

Comics: Suggestions on getting started learning the craftSteve Lieber, a published comic artist, shares tips and ideas for tackling the basic elements of comic art.

Teachers' Guide to the Professional Cartoonists IndexPeg Cagle uses contemporary editorial cartoons to explain the medium to pedagogical ends.

Larry Dempsey's Comic Book Inking SurveyWebsite devoted to comic book inking featuring inking advice from over 300 professional comic book artists.

Comic Art Conference (San Diego, CA; in the summer, during the San Diego Comic-Con)

Festival of Cartoon Art (Columbus, OH; every three years)

International Comic Arts Forum (Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.; in September)

International Bande Dessinee Society Conference (U.K.; in July)

Sequential Art Studies Conference (Sydney, Australia; in May)

University of Florida-Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels (Gainesville, FL; in February)

College Art Association Annual Conference (location varies; in February)

Narrative: An International Conference (location varies; in March-April)

Popular Culture Association - Comic Art & Comics Area (location varies; in March-April)

Word & Image Conference (every three year)

ImageText Online peer-review scholarly journal exploring the historical, theoretical, and cultural implications of "sequential visual narrative," in the broadest senses of those terms, from comics to animation, from all periods and all countries. Each issue has a particular theme.

Indy Magazine Online quarterly journal of news, features, essays, and reviews on classics, alternative comics, and bande dessinée.

International Journal of Comic Art (IJOCA); published twice a yearly. "International and multidisciplinary in scope, IJOCA aims to publish scholarly and readable research on any aspect of comic art, defined as comic books, newspaper and magazine strips, caricature, gag and political cartoons, humorous art, animation, and humor or cartoon magazines."

Ninth Art Online journal updated several times a week, mixing journalistic and scholarly perspectives through essays, articles, reviews on the arts and industry of comics (with a penchant for British and Anglo-Saxon comics).

The Comics Journal Published by Fantagraphics; covers comic artists and the comic book industry.

Image & Narrative Online peer-reviewed scholarly journal on visual narratology, with a focus theory and a penchant for European material.

Narrative Scholarly journal published tri-annually by the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature.

Storytelling: a Critical Journal of Popular Narrative Scholarly journal published by the Department of English at Eastern Kentucky University.

Word & Image Journal Scholarly journal published quarterly, about the interactions between verbal and visual languages, one of the prime new areas of humanistic criticism, relating to literature, art history, and media, communication, and cultural studies.

Bowling Green State University - Popular Culture Library, Graphic Arts Collections (Bowling Green, OH) 50,000 issues from DC, Marvel, Dell, Dark Horse, Comico, and Innovation. The Robert S. Bravard Comic Book Collection includes many series such as X-Men and Superman, and the work of noted artists as Robert Crumb. The Popular Culture Library also has more than 500 graphic novels.

International Bande Dessinée Society (Univ. of Sheffield, Sheffield, U.K.) Forum for scholarly exchange on all aspects of the bande dessinée, or French-language comic strip. Critical approaches: historical, sociological, political, literary, linguistic and other.

Library of Congress, Caroline and Erwin Swann Collection of Caricature and Cartoon (Washington, D.C.) 2,085 drawings, prints, and paintings related to the art of caricature, cartoon, and illustration from 1780 to 197 by 521 American and foreign artists and illustrators.

Library of Congress, Comic Book Collection (Washington, D.C.) More than 6,000 titles, large holdings for periodicals post 1950.

Michigan State University - Comic Art Collection (East Lansing, MI) More than 150,000 items. Mostly comic books, but also nearly 1,000 books of collected newspaper comic strips, and several thousand books and periodicals about comics.

New York Public Library - General Research Division, Comic Books (New York, NY) Emphasis on reprint collections, microforms, and reference titles. Graphic novels, selected current comics and titles on comic artists, writers, collecting, etc., are presently being added to the collections.

Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library (Columbus, OH) Large research collection of materials documenting American printed cartoon art (editorial cartoons, comic strips, comic books, graphic novels, sports cartoons, and magazine cartoons).

University of California-Riverside, Eaton Collection (Riverside, CA) World's largest collection of materials of science fiction and fantasy magazines, comic books, graphic novels, and about 150,000 issues of fanzines.

University of Missouri-Columbia, Comic Art Collection (Columbia, MO) Includes materials by Mort Walker; the V. T. Hamlin Papers Collection (Alley Oop); the Frank Stack Papers (Dorman's Doggie, The Adventures of Jesus, and Amazon); hundreds of underground comic books; original editorial cartoons from the Chicago Tribune and Cosmopolitan.

Virginia Commonwealth University - Comic Arts Collection (Riverside, CA) More than 10,000 comic books primarily from the 1970s-1990s; an extensive collection of reference journals donated by Dr. M. Thomas Inge, an expert on popular culture and the history of the comic arts; and a growing collection of reference books supporting the study of all areas of the comic arts.

Cartoon Art Museum San Francisco, CA.

Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center Santa Rosa, CA.

Chester Gould-Dick Tracy Museum Woodstock, IL.

International Museum of Cartoon Art Boca Raton, FL. Closed until further notice.

Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art New York, NY.

New York City Comic Book Museum New York, NY.

Bedeteca de Lisboa Lisbon, PORTUGAL.

Centre Belge de la Bande Dessinée (alternate link until the museum's site returns) Brussels, BELGIUM.

Centre National de la Bande Dessinée et de l'Image Angoulême, FRANCE.

Centro Nazionale per la Letturatura Disegnata (Italian Centre for Comic Art) Torino, ITALY.

Musée Jijé (Joseph Gillain, a.k.a. Jijé, is the leader of the "Ecole de Marcinelle") Brussels, BELGIUM.

Comics Research Bibliography More than 16,000 bibliographic entries for comic books, comic strips, animation, caricature, cartoons, bandes dessinees, and related topics.

Comics Scholarship Annotated Bibliographies Cover book-length works about comic books and comic strips, from "fannish" histories to academic monographs.

Comics-Related Dissertations and Theses Includes undergraduate and Master's theses, and doctoral dissertations and theses (compiled by Dr. Gene Kannenberg, Jr.).

Grand Comic-Book Database Includes plot summaries, creators, covers, dates, and other information about comic books useful to readers, fans, hobbyists, researchers; on-going project (more than 1 million records to date) generated by volunteers.

Comics Scholars' Discussion List Academic forum about research, criticism and teaching related to comics art.

Platinum Age Comics About any comic art predating the 1930's

Links to Comics and Verbal/Visual Studies Discussion Lists Includes links to lists focusing on Eisner, Ditko, Kirby, Argentinian comics and more. From the Comics Scholars' Discussion List website.

EGON Specialized in alternative, small-press, art, and European comics with excellent listing of news, events, and links.

Journalista! on the website of The Comics Journal, covers just about any news related to the field of comics (temporary inactive since February 2004).

More Than 100 Comics-Related Words in 8 LanguagesList of comic art terms and equivalents in English, French, Flemish/Dutch, German, Danish, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese. Edited by Pascal Lefevre.

Comic Art in Scholarly Writing: A Citation Guide Style guide on how to refer to panels and pages of comics in scholarly writing.

Coconino-World Includes many online exhibits, links, news, and resources such as Coconino-Classics, devoted to early comic art pioneers (McKay, Töpffer, Herriman, Hokusaï, and more).

Issues at the Savannah College of Art & Design (www.scad.info) Testimonies and accounts of former students, faculty, and other parties about their experiences at SCAD.

Lines On Paper A private site promoting the appreciation of comic art.

Retrospective of the Oldest, Longest Continuously Running Black Comic Strip

Sequentially Speaking Includes many links, news, and resources about comic art workshops and events in central Ohio.

The Words and Pictures Museum Includes many links, news, and resources about comic art.

Tintin.com Official Tintin site (maintained by the Hergé Fondation).

UnderGround Comics Info A resource for collectors of Underground Comix of the 60's & 70's (contains adult content).

Xeric Foundation A private, nonprofit corporation established by Peter A. Laird to financially assist new, committed, self- publishing comic book talents.