*As an alumnus, I just lately had the pleasure of assembly Anthony Marques, proprietor and President of The Joe Kubert Faculty and a fellow graduate. We mentioned how the college has considerably advanced, particularly via the mixing of latest applied sciences into its curriculum.
As a token of appreciation, Mr. Marques gave me two gadgets from the college’s Artwork Retailer, which provides supplies to each college students and the general public. Notably, I used to be the primary scholar to attend from Nigeria and from Africa—a journey that modified and superior my profession. The varsity has had many worldwide college students since.
The Joe Kubert Faculty, based by famend comedian guide artist and my mentor Joe Kubert, enjoys a prestigious popularity in comics and graphic novel training. Now based mostly in Madison, New Jersey, I travelled from New York Metropolis to go to the campus, which has nurtured many acclaimed artists and illustrators similar to Adam and Andy Kubert, Lee Weeks, Anthony Marques, Kim DeMulder, Tom Mandrake, Jan Dursema, Eric Shanawer, Bjorn Ousland, David Cuccia, Graham Nolan, and me. Initially positioned in Dover, New Jersey, the college moved to Madison in 2025.
Throughout my go to, Anthony Marques and Fernando Ruiz—a fellow alumnus and present college member—guided me on a radical tour of their fashionable services designed for each on-line and in-person studying. The varsity’s dedication to inclusivity is obvious in its help for distant and conventional classroom alternatives. It was right here that I developed OUR ROOTS, a chronicle of Black Historical past, and later donated copies of my books to the college library.
The Joe Kubert Faculty is understood for its complete method to sequential artwork, providing coaching in conventional drawing and inking, digital illustration, and narrative abilities. Its employees contains business professionals, and it boasts a longstanding document of manufacturing main expertise, cementing its function as a premier heart for comics training. In line with Mr. Marques, the college’s success is fuelled by the dedication and laborious work of its college students, previous and current.
Furthermore, the college’s packages present artistic alternatives for artists at any stage—from these simply beginning to skilled creators searching for superior programs. Developed by professionals, the lessons supply specialised instruction in storytelling, character design, and illustration, with versatile scheduling choices for individuals who can’t decide to full-time research.
At The Joe Kubert Faculty, the academic philosophy goes past technical mastery, fostering a vibrant group of artists pushed by a shared ardour for his or her craft and excellence.
The varsity’s non-accredited choices—together with intensive kids’s lessons, on-line programs, and summer time camps—additional set up it as a hub for creative progress.
These initiatives remind me of my very own expertise serving to Joe Kubert run Saturday sketch lessons, which impressed and motivated aspiring artists every weekend. A satisfying go to it was earlier than flying again to the UK.
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TAYO Fatunla is a British Nigerian comedian artist, editorial cartoonist, author, and illustrator whose work has featured on MSN.com by way of EURweb.com. He created the “OUR ROOTS” sequence, highlighting Black historical past figures, incomes the 2018 ECBACC Pioneer Lifetime Achievement Award. A former cartoonist for Nigerian newspapers, he was named Skilled Inventive Cartoonist of the Yr on the 2024 Annual Achievement Recognition Awards (The Constructing Blocks Initiative, UK). He additionally illustrated Camberwell’s public Black historical past stroll map. https://www.instagram.com/tfatunla123
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