{"id":6287,"date":"2024-06-28T14:47:31","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T14:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=6287"},"modified":"2024-06-28T14:47:36","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T14:47:36","slug":"comicamp-leads-to-influx-of-new-superheroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2024\/06\/28\/comicamp-leads-to-influx-of-new-superheroes\/","title":{"rendered":"COMICAMP leads to influx of new superheroes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TROY, Ala. (<a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TROJANVISION<\/a>) \u2014 For the fourth consecutive year, Troy University&#8217;s theatre and art departments are holding 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\">Summer Spotlight<\/a> series. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Part of the series is COMICAMP, which transforms students aged eight to 14 into comic book artists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;[It&#8217;s] a practical experience in building a progressed story that they invent that they create and develop characters for,&#8221; COMICAMP Coordinator Greg Skaggs said. &#8220;They produce a comic book, then we make copies of their book that they trade with their campmates. They do promotional materials, posters, buttons, stickers, and things like that.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students are given total creative control over their projects, but they do not do it entirely on their own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2024\/06\/26\/troy-hosts-camp-success-for-hearing-impaired-students\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>OTHER NEWS:<\/strong> TROY hosts Camp Success for hearing-impaired students<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The counselors have created presentations where they teach things about developing a story to learning how to draw a figure, hands, feet, faces, general expressions, how to do characters, create characters,&#8221; Skaggs explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although Troy University professors lead the way, they do not have all the answers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Our students in our department have been teaching most of the classes,&#8221; Skaggs revealed to TrojanVision. &#8220;They also do an introduction showing their work, that they are actual makers of art, not just teachers of art.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the end of the camp, students screen print and create their own shirt for the camp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TROY, Ala. (TROJANVISION) \u2014 For the fourth consecutive year, Troy University&#8217;s theatre and art departments are holding the Summer Spotlight series. <\/p>\n<p>Part of the series is COMICAMP, which transforms students aged eight to 14 into comic book artists.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[It&#8217;s] a practical experience in building a progressed story that they invent that they create and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2024\/06\/28\/comicamp-leads-to-influx-of-new-superheroes\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":6291,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1127],"tags":[588,1628,1601,572],"topics":[5,25,17],"class_list":["post-6287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-comicamp","tag-greg-skaags","tag-summer-2024","tag-summer-camps","topics-college-of-communication-and-fine-arts","topics-theatre-dance","topics-troy-campus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6287","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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6287"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6290,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6287\/revisions\/6290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6287"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=6287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}