<p>This is actually on behalf of a friend of mine. She is currently a student at Savannah College of Art and Design, majoring in sequential art. However the rigid curriculum and the large student body simply isn't working for her because the teachers could care less if she succeeded. </p>
<p>My friend wants to become a manga artist, for those who don't know what that is, its basically a form of comic book artistry. Therefore, she wants to be able to major in Sequential Art, however, that may not be possible, and besides, it is a relatively new major, therefore the successful comic artists did not take that major.</p>
<p>So, I have two questions, what colleges would you suggest for her? Preferably with sequential art major, but if there arent others, does anyone have suggestions for majors, and good colleges for those majors where the teachers really care about the success of students.</p>
<p>I came from the land of manga.
Gosh how the world have changed. When I was at art school in Tokyo ages ago majoring illustration, we'd hide we even read and draw them and secretly that is what we wanted to do in the future. It was an embarrassing career. You are proclaiming your immatureness as an artist to the world. No successful manga artist went to art school if ever.
I know styles and stories kids nowadays want to do is very different but
If she/he wants to live longer, learn to draw before anything else. Learn to draw properly human, animals, buildings, interiors, spaceships, weaponries, robots and fairies, whatever, practice until you can draw from 360 degrees up and down and behind.
What young Toriyama (dragonball Z) did as deprived youngster nerd growing up in sad nowhere city in 70s Japan was went to see same movies million times on bicycle until he could recall every cut and reproduce in his head every angles, close ups, long, short, effects.
Luckily, we don' t have to do that. Pause the videos and study at your home comfort.
To answer you question, it is better to take serious drawing class and read and write a lot to make youeself better story teller. Don't worry about little bag of tricks just yet.</p>
<p>I mean read real written words, not comics. Classics, novels, poems, biographies, screenplays, memoirs, plays, newspapers, advertisements, carton of cereals and milk.</p>
<p>Bears and Dogs, echoing P3T. D is working on college essays, and I sent her a copy of your posts. </p>
<p>I told her that I would love to meet you, just based on your posts. I told her that if she could write something as accurate, informative, engaging, and full of joie de vivre as your posts #2 & #3, then all of the fine schools she is applying to would want to meet her, too!</p>
<p>I am also interested in sequential art, but would like to go to a college with a traditional campus. Does anyone know of a school other than SCAD that offers sequential art or comic book illustration?</p>
<p>Don't you think you're exaggerating to say that her teachers don't care about whether she succeeds or not? SCAD is supposed to be a very good school... A friend of mine says that all of her friends who go there love it.</p>
<p>must you do it,
here is the list from Pratt NPD booklet</p>
<p>Comic illustration/catooning
MCAD comic art
SVA ug/g major but they have no campus
U Mich ug major
VCU ug concentration</p>
<p>I read somewhere that some kid with this portfolio was laughed at some fancy art school but loved and welcomed by MCAD and very happy there and learning alot. They got to have nice campus if it's in Minnesota. check it out.</p>