Ron Wheeler's Cartoon Camp is in Kansas City, Missouri USA

Instructor:
Ron Wheeler

Location:
Kansas City, Missouri USA

Year Started:
2008

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Cartoonworks Cartoon Camp

Christian Comics Pioneer and internationally known tract cartoonist Ron Wheeler offers lessons that include the basics of drawing, starting with realistic drawing and transitioning into cartooning.

Students learn how to sculpt cartoon heads with modeling clay and use that as a reference for drawing characters from different angles.

Camps are 1 week long, held in the Summer, for elementary age children up to Junior High and older.



Alec Stevens teaches at the Joe Kubert School in Dover, NJ USA

Instructor:
Alec Stevens (at Joe Kubert School)

Location:
Dover, New Jersey USA

Year Started:
1976

Web:
The Joe Kubert School

The Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art is a three-year technical school that teaches the principles of sequential art and the particular craft of the comics industry. It is the only accredited school devoted entirely to cartooning in the USA.

Although the Kubert School is a not a Christian school , Born Again Christian comics producer Alec Stevens (pictured here) works on their professional teaching faculty.

Stevens also conducts a weekly after-school Bible study for interested students.


Create International's School of Cartooning & Animation for Missions is held in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Instructor(s):
Dave Hudson, others

Location:
Taiwan (formerly held in Thailand)

Year Started:
2010

Web:
School of Cartooning & Animation for Missions

The School of Cartooning & Animation for Missions (SoCam) is a six-month, second-level YWAM school, devoted to training students in using cartoons, comic books, anime, and animated media to communicate the Gospel in culturally relevant ways.

This school is a project of Create International Thailand which was established in 2007 in Chiang Mai, Thailand, to target unreached peoples in China and Indo-China specifically. The 2014 School will be held in Taiwan.

A YWAM Discipleship Training School is a prerequisite.


YWAM's University of the Nations School of Illustration is in Kona, Hawaii USA

Instructor(s):
Dave Hudson, Ron Wheeler, others

Location(s):
Kona, Hawaii USA

Year Started:
1996

Web:
School of Illustration

Youth With a Mission's University of the Nations School of Illustration trains students to draw on the creative power of God in visual communication. Some of their teaching includes cartooning and humorous illustration, childrens books and bibles, tracts and missions publications.

Christian cartoonists Dave Hudson and Ron Wheeler have been involved in teaching at University of Nations School of Illustration in the past.


F.A.I.T.H. Center for the Arts is in Randolph, New Jersey USA

Instructor(s):
Alec Stevens, others

Location:
Randolph, New Jersey USA

Year Started:
199 6

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Faith Center Art Courses

F.A.I.T.H. (Fine Arts In The Home) Center at the Bethlehem Evangelical Free Church has art classes every Tuesday for children ages 11-18.

Comics professional Alec Stevens teaches the courses Art 1, Art 2, Art 3, and Advanced Art. Each class is opened with prayer, and also Stevens shares eternal truths as they relate to certain principles of art, and vice versa.

There are two other instructors for ages 7-10 (Studio Art and Art Survey) and for the computer art classes.