<p>I’m looking into writing as well and Amherst, Emerson, Johns Hopkins, Brown, and Carnegie Mellon all have majors in Creative Writing. I’ve heard that Iowa has a good program, but I don’t think its a major or a minor. Also, Bowdoin has a good English department. You could also look into art schools: California College of the Arts, california institute of the arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. You could look into larger schools, like University of Illinois, that have Fine Arts schools within the larger University. I’ve also come to find that Yale, Princeton, and Harvard all have really distinguished faculty in their English departments. Princeton has a creative writing certificate and one of the professors is Joyce Carol Oats (one of the most influential writers of our era, has won a National Book Award and been nominated for the Pulitzer).</p>
<p>It really depends on the type of school you want, environment, what context you want to study writing in, and your future goals. For me I want to go to law school after college, so an art school wouldn’t work. But for you, since you want to just focus on writing and illustration, the options are really open.</p>
<p>Hope that helped :)</p>