From October 11th to October 31st of this year, ACA (The Atlantic Center for the Arts) offered a Comic Book Workshop/Graphic Novels Residency for budding creators. This offering is exciting if only for the creators involved, as Paul Pope (Heavy Liquid, 100%), Craig Thompson (Blankets) and Svetlana Chmakova (Dramacon) held residency at this workshop. For a burgeoning cartoonist, learning from those three has to be a dream come true.
This dream come true is rendered in hilarious fashion by Australian cartoonist Pat Grant, as he developed a cartoon that captures his time at the residency (also known as the “School for Comix Ninjas”). You can see that cartoon off to the left, but if it proves anything, it proves that a) Grant is very talented, b) the school would be incredibly awesome to attend, and c) Paul Pope is thinking on a different metaphysical plane than the rest of us. It’s incredibly awesome and highly entertaining – nice work that shows in comedic fashion what exactly these young cartoonists went through to come out the other side.
One note: In case you didn’t realize while reading them, if you read Paul Pope’s comics you are reading “badass boys comix,” for Craig Thompson’s you’re reading “neurotic memoir comix for old people,” and Svetlana Chmakova comics are “manga pop comix for girls.” Classification is very important, my friends.
Check out his blog for the full cartoon. It’s highly recommended by yours truly.
