I'll be giving a talk at CCAD with the students in the Comic Book Illustration class. It's sorta full circle since I took the class the first time it was offered back in the ahem mid-nineties. Since then that instructor moved on and my classmate Joe took over the course.

To be honest I didn't get what I wanted out of the class. It was so focused on penciling (in the factory system) which wasn't what I wanted to do at all. Do you know how many penciling gigs there are to break in now? So much has changed and now it's harder. I think anyway. The traditional venues are closing up. Diamond's caps officially put a kibosh on the indie pamphlet. Though it had been declared dead for quite some time. What you have now are webcomics and maybe landing a gig drawing a graphic novel. Neither one pays very well. I'm struggling to come up with something positive to tell these kids.

It's nice that now they're getting local creators and writers to come in and talk. I only wish Jeff Smith came in to talk to my class while I was there.