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President David Rhodes of the New York School of Visual Arts has announced Viktor Koen as the new department chair of their BFA Illustration and BFA Cartooning programmes, and will succeed Thomas Woodruff, who is retiring after 39 years at SVA. Viktor Koen courtesy of New York School of Visual Arts PR Viktor Koen himself graduated from[...]

I commended their thorough knowledge of where they'll find their own kind in upcoming months, having taken their degrees. Most of the students I talk to who are graduating from the School of Visual Arts are being very realistic, maybe too realistic, about how unlikely it seems that they'll be able to support themselves financially making[...]

SVA graduate Molly Ostertag, the artist on the successfully Kickstarted print version of the webcomic Strong Female Protagonist, now picked up by Top

The School of Visual Arts Department of Illustration and Cartooning hosted their annual Portfolio Review in conjunction with the Office of Career Development at the Art Directors Club in midtown in New York on Wednesday, an event designed to bring comic professionals in to provide feedback on students' creative work and advice for publication for[...]

The School of Visual Arts in New York is a major training ground for new comics artists and illustrators, and this year they've put together an anthology by 16 of their top talent to debut at MoCCA Fest, the home show of indie comics in New York running next weekend, from April 5th to 6th[...]

We ran a piece before Christmas on Neal Adams' ads appearing in the London Underground – and in the New Year, they are still visible. Well, New York is getting a similar look courtesy of Nathan Fox for a subway campaign for the School Of Visual Arts Fox is the artist on Haunt, and a tutor[...]