{"id":4366,"date":"2023-06-30T18:38:09","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T18:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=4366"},"modified":"2023-06-30T18:38:12","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T18:38:12","slug":"young-artists-learn-to-create-comic-books-during-comicamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2023\/06\/30\/young-artists-learn-to-create-comic-books-during-comicamp\/","title":{"rendered":"Young artists learn to create comic books during ComiCamp"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TROY, Ala. (<a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TROJANVISION<\/a>) \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.troy.edu\/academics\/colleges-schools\/college-communication-fine-arts\/departments\/theatre-dance\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Department of Theatre and Dance<\/a> is hosting its third annual Summer Spotlight ComiCamp for young artists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ComiCamp is a week-long program where art lovers, 8 to 13 years old, learn how to create their very own comic book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;It starts off with kids learning how to come up with characters and how to draw using shapes and things like that,&#8221; ComiCamp Instructor Brandon Rice. said. &#8220;How to take something complex like the human body and take it down to a couple squares, ovals and things like that. From there they learn how to thumbnail their story, how to do a finished page and then, at the end of this year, we&#8217;re actually doing a comic book convention where they get to do a little mock-up and dress up as their characters and act like they&#8217;re at an actual like Comic-Con.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;This year, ComiCamp is under new leadership. This is Rice&#8217;s first year leading the camp by himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve been working on getting my own comic book started so it&#8217;s cool to sit down and teach other people what you already know because it makes you realize you know a lot more than you thought,&#8221; Rice explained. &#8220;You can see the parts where you struggle more and learn how to get over that by actually talking somebody else through the process.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Emily Gooden, a ComiCamp student, says her inspiration for art and design comes from her art teacher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;My art teacher at my school, she taught us so many things to do about art,&#8221; Gooden told TrojanVision. &#8220;You can do anything, even if you mess up.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kids aren&#8217;t the only ones getting to express themselves. Student workers and volunteers also get to dabble and design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more information about Summer Spotlight camps, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.troy.edu\/academics\/colleges-schools\/college-communication-fine-arts\/departments\/theatre-dance\/summer-spotlight.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Department of Theatre and Dance&#8217;s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TROY, Ala. (TROJANVISION) \u2014 The Department of Theatre and Dance is hosting its third annual Summer Spotlight ComiCamp for young artists.<\/p>\n<p>ComiCamp is a week-long program where art lovers, 8 to 13 years old, learn how to create their very own comic book.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It starts off with kids learning how to come up with characters&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2023\/06\/30\/young-artists-learn-to-create-comic-books-during-comicamp\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":4367,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[588],"topics":[5,17],"class_list":["post-4366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-comicamp","topics-college-of-communication-and-fine-arts","topics-troy-campus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4366"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=4366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}