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Do U really need a degree in illus./cartooning to go in2 comics & get your stuff self-published & distributed?

Hi, please excuse the spelling. I have a degree in animation/film and and I want to either go back to school to get another degree in illustration/cartooning or get some training with Art Instructional Schools with their 2-year program. I’ve been out of school over a decade.Do I really need a degree in illustration/cartooing? Did Simon and Schuster, Kane, Kirby, Lee, and all these other comic book bigshots have degrees in illustration/cartooning before they went into the comics bisuness an got their material published and distributed? I want to get my own comics self-published and distributed. Please help me out.Thank you.

It is common knowledge that no popular cartoonist today has a degree in any thing. For best advice about how to proceed, ask a practicing comics writer. I suggest Brooke McEldowney, who draws “9 Chickweed Lane” and “Pibgorn.” The cartoonists who drew “B.C.,” “The Wizard of Id,” “Little Orphan Annie,” and “Dick Tracy” are all dead.

Also, check GirlGeniusOnline.net

Mangaman by Barry Lyga, illus by Colleen Doran