BFA Illustration ’19 Students exhibit work @ SMUSH Gallery in Jersey City

See new work by Illustration Seniors at SMUSH Gallery in Jersey City on view November 30-January 27th! The artwork for the exhibition’s poster was created by Hailey Dugan. Illustration Seniors: Sanika Phawde…

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Spring 2018 Comics and Picture-Story Symposium

Illustration Dept. Events Illustration Industry Symposia 19.01.18

The NY Comics & Picture Story Symposium is a weekly symposium for artist/writers working in various text-image forms: comics, picture-stories, animation, etc. at which to present and critique current work. The…

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Boroughs & Burrows: Student Pictozine Showcase

Illustration Dept. Events Student Work 02.12.16

Pictozine class Fall 2016, taught by Steven Guarnaccia, will be holding a show titled Boroughs & Burrows. The opening will be on December 8th at 2W 13th Street, Gallery #805…

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Carousel at Dixon Place, Wed. March 9

Faculty News Illustration Dept. Events News 02.03.16

Dixon Place presents CAROUSEL Comics Performances and Picture Shows Hosted by R. Sikoryak Live drawings, gag cartoons, and graphic novels as created, performed, and read by: Sam Gross Ellen Lindner Doug Skinner with Anne…

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New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium – Feburary 2, 2016

Events Illustration Dept. Events Illustration Industry 27.01.16

[above] Alberto Beltrán, Vida y drama de México: 20 años de vida del Taller de Gráfica Popular (Life and Drama of Mexico: 20 Years of the Life of the Taller de Gráfica Popular),…

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New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium Spring 2016 Schedule

Events Illustration Dept. Events Illustration Industry 28.12.15

Spring 2016 schedule, below. Check back for future details on each of the events or join the email list! For details visit the NY Comic & Picture-story Symposium website, or join the…

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“Oh The Places You’ll Go” – A Traveling Skate Deck Show

Current Students Events Exhibitions Illustration Dept. Events 10.12.15

Amanda Chung with her skatedeck In celebration of a new gallery showing in room 806 in 2 West 13th Street, the Illustration department’s peer mentors Kristin Gormley, Robin Yao, and Emily…

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New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium – December 15, 2015

Events Illustration Dept. Events Illustration Industry 09.12.15

Collaborators, translators and friends of the legendary cartoonist Hugo Pratt discuss his work and place in comics history. Panelists: Fiore Sireci teaches Anglo-American social history as well as writing in the…

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Dixon Place presents CAROUSEL – With Illustration Faculty R. Sikoryak

Events Illustration Dept. Events Illustration Industry 02.12.15

Cartoon Slide Shows and Picture Performances Hosted by R. Sikoryak Featuring Maëlle Doliveux (Hollywood Freeway Chickens) Felipe Galindo (No Man Is a Desert Island) James Godwin (The Flatiron Hex) Glenn Head (Chicago) Carolita Johnson (The…

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New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium – December 8, 2015

Illustration Dept. Events Illustration Industry 02.12.15

Camilo José Vergara on Text & Image Found in the Street. Acclaimed photographer/sociologist Camilo José Vergara will present a slideshow and discussion of urban street drawings, murals and signage collected over…

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New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium – December 1, 2015

Events Illustration Dept. Events Illustration Industry 30.11.15

Lauren Redniss‘s work combines reporting, historical research, artwork and design. She will speak about her new book, Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future. Lauren Redniss is the author of Century Girl: 100…

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New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium – November 24, 2015

Events Illustration Dept. Events Illustration Industry 18.11.15

drawing (above) by Zou Jian Nicolas Grivel on Chinese Comics: From lianhuanhua to the new talents of the Chinese comics scene or the Tribulations of a Frenchman in China The Chinese…

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This Years Annual Alumni Panel

Illustration Dept. Events 16.11.15

New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium – November 17, 2015

Events Illustration Dept. Events Illustration Industry 11.11.15

Bill Griffith on his new book, Invisible Ink. Bill Griffith on his new book, Invisible Ink. Invisible Ink is about my mother’s secret 16 year affair with a famous cartoonist and…

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New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium – November 10, 2015

Events Illustration Dept. Events Illustration Industry 04.11.15

Paul Tumey on Forgotten Funnies: Images of America in the Comics of Percy Winterbottom, Dwig, and Ving Fuller. Forgotten today, the comics of these three cartoonists were widely published and enjoyed…

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New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium – November 5, 2015

Events Illustration Dept. Events Illustration Industry 04.11.15

[above] Illustration by Patrick Crotty Comics on the Northern Edge of Europe with Tom Oldham, Patrick Crotty, Tommi Musturi, and David Schilter. Moderated by Bill Kartalopoulos. Bill Kartalopoulos in conversation with…

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Graphic Novelist Riad Sattouf, Lecture and Book Signing – 11/6

Illustration Dept. Events 04.11.15

Parsons School of Design’s Illustration BFA presents Riad Sattouf, a bestselling cartoonist and filmmaker who grew up in Syria and Libya and now lives in Paris, here in New York to discuss and…

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New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium – November 3, 2015

Events Illustration Dept. Events 28.10.15

Marvin Sackner on this new book, The Art of Typewriting Join Marvin Sackner for a celebration of the publication of his new book, The Art of Typewriting (Thames and Hudson) co-authored…

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Special Guest Lecturer, Animator Ru Kuwahata 11/5

Illustration Dept. Events 26.10.15

Parsons alum, Ru Kowahata will be returning to Parsons to offer a lecture on her experiences and methods discovered post graduation. As a part of the Tiny Inventions duo,…

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Invitation to Adrian Tomine – 92Y

Events Illustration Dept. Events News 22.10.15

“Adrian Tomine has more ideas in twenty panels than novelists have in a lifetime,” wrote Zadie Smith. The artist behind the comic-book series Optic Nerve, which he began self-publishing at the…

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School of Art, Media, and Technology

Illustration Dept. Events