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[dave!]

Meetings & Events (although maybe Events should be its own topic, so information on long-range events doesn't get bumped down in the the topic with regular meetings)
1. Attending Megacon February 2006
2. Friday 12-12:45 meetings


Tell us about yourself!
•Meet your Sequa Mods & Sponsors (bios about the guys)
•Meet your Sequa members
(I'll post some basic warm-up questions, but this'll be free-form)

Setting up Sequa
•How do we want to run this so it's organized?
•Contests to get some of the basics underway: logo, t-shirt, secret handshake
•How do we make Sequa our own? (And without alienating AI-Tampa's sponsorship)
•How do we make the Sequa messageboard our own? Art contest? Keep it plain? Rotating banners featuring different artists/writers in Sequa and their website link or sketch blog?


Recommended reading
1. Classics comic books
2. Classic graphic novels
3. Comics related movies
4. Comics related novels
5. Scholarship/Textbooks researching comic books & comic book history (I'm sure there's a simpler way to describe that, but it doesn't occur to me -- too early...)


Contests
1. T-shirt design contest
2. Sequa logo contest


What do you want Sequa to teach?
Topics I can guess:
1. Formats for comic scripts
2. Plotting techniques
3. Brainstorming writing ideas
4. Drawing layouts/pre-visualizing scripts
5. Rendering pencil layouts as final pencil art
6. Anatomy for comics
7. Composition for comics
8. Visual storytelling for comics
9. Inking for comics
10. Digital lettering for comics
11. Hand lettering for comics
12. Print assembly -- how to make digital print files
13. Overview of comic book creation
14. Legal issues -- protecting your creation
15. Finding an audience: online and print
16. What materials do I need for drawing comics?
17. What materials do I need to write comics?
18. What materials do I need for assembling comics for print or web?
19. Assembling a professional portfolio for submissions
20. Self publishing versus mainstream work-for-hire
21. The life of a freelancer
22. How to network confidently & politely

Information about Institutions that award BFAs in Sequential Art


Professionals you'd like to meet or interview


Comic book news links (Hey, Wallace: any way we could set up part of the forum to receive RSS feeds from news sites? And also pull in podcasts?)


Comic book reviews by Sequa members


Building a Lending Library
from Sequa members donations of books or money and/or taking the Recommended Reads list to the AIT Library to request adding those books for check-out

[kms007]

Great list, Dave - and excellent job capturing the first meeting's minutes. We'll want to elect officers soon - I think that you and Wallace would make excellent candidates for President and VP. We'll need to find a Secretary (someone who is in charge of meeting minutes, notifications, etc.) and ultimately a treasurer. BTW, I've linked to the SequA message boards from my sivamstudios.com/ait website - it's on the main page so students can find it quickly.

-Krishna

[Wallace]

I would reccomend making a "Tell us about yourself!" stickied thread instead of a actual board catagorie. That way we save on webspace and what not and it can't get to out of hand if there is just one dedicated thread. Really, there doesn't need to be a board for it if it can be contained in a post like this.


Also with the news feed. I am not sure if we can get a RSS feed into the forum. I will definetly find out if that is a possibility. If not, then until we get a web front set up. We'll need someone assigned to grab news items every week or so and post them on the boards.

[dave!]

I've linked to the SequA message boards from my sivamstudios.com/ait website - it's on the main page so students can find it quickly.

Thanks, Krishna! That'll attract more comic book students!

I would reccomend making a "Tell us about yourself!" stickied thread instead of a actual board catagorie. That way we save on webspace and what not and it can't get to out of hand if there is just one dedicated thread. Really, there doesn't need to be a board for it if it can be contained in a post like this.

That's why you're running the forums, and not me, Wallace. I've only ever posted to a few; certainly, I've never moderated one. And your suggestion for "Tell us about yourself!" as a thread is spot-on. Thanks!

Great list, Dave - and excellent job capturing the first meeting's minutes.

You're welcome, Krishna. Everyone who was at the first meeting: expand on my notes. It was entirely an after-thought that I added the notes about the first meeting, so I did it entirely from memory the day after we met. Feel free to expand, correct, and add in new thoughts.

[Wallace]

dave said:

That's why you're running the forums, and not me, Wallace. I've only ever posted to a few; certainly, I've never moderated one. And your suggestion for "Tell us about yourself!" a thread is spot-on. Thanks!

Ah yes, that makes so much more sense now...

[Wallace]

Damn, just found out that RSS feeds are not possible with these forums. Looks like we will have to deffinetly incoporate that in a site front. For now....I think there needs to be someone assigned to grab nwes stuff and post it (weekly or biweekly) on the forums in a thread.

Edit: Also modified the censored words. I trust we can all be adults here...if not "Daddy" will have something to say about it.

[devilmanozzy]

Cool all. I think for now, I'll just say hello so you know I got here.
Matt jordan