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This is a list of notable alumni and instructors of the School of Visual Arts.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Notable alumni

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Animation

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Cartooning (by decade)

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1940s

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1950s

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  • Gene Bilbrew (early 1950s) — cartoonist and "bizarre art" pioneer[9]
  • Steve Ditko (c. 1952) – co-creator of Spider-Man, creator of The Question and others
  • Tom Feelings (early-to-mid-1950s) – pioneering African American cartoonist and children's book artist
  • Stan Goldberg (late 1950s) — longtime artist for Archie Comics
  • Archie Goodwin (mid-1950s) – longtime editor and writer for Marvel and DC
  • Larry Ivie (1950s) — comics artist, writer, and collector who was active in comics fandom in the middle part of the 20th century, described by comics historian Bill Schelly as "the closest thing to an authority on comics that was available in the 1950s."[10]
  • Dick Hodgins Jr. — (early 1950s) cartoonist whose work included illustration, comic strips, and political cartoons
  • Nick Meglin (mid-1950s) — writer, humorist, and artist known for his contributions to Mad[11]
  • Tom Moore (c. 1950) – Archie cartoonist, writer, letterer
  • Joe Sinnott (c. 1950) – longtime Marvel Comics inker
  • Eric Stanton (early 1950s) — underground cartoonist and fetish art pioneer[12]
  • Tony Tallarico (early 1950s) — comic book artist, children's book illustrator, and author[13]

1960s

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  • Sal Amendola (1969) — DC Comics, Archie Comics. Penciler, inker, writer, production, editor, talent coordinator; primarily known for writing, drawing Batman.
  • Liz Berube (1961) — romance comic artist for DC in the 1970s
  • Herb Trimpe (c. 1960) — comics artist best known as the seminal 1970s artist on The Incredible Hulk and as the first artist to draw for publication the character Wolverine[14]
  • John Verpoorten (early 1960s) — comic book artist and editorial worker best known as Marvel Comics' production manager[15]

1970s

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1980s

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1990s

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2000s

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2010s

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Computer art

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Film and video

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Fine arts

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Graphic design

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  • Gail Anderson – partner at Anderson Newton Design; faculty at SVA; former senior art director of Rolling Stone
  • Jimmy DiResta – maker, graphic designer
  • Todd Radom – designer of logos for professional sports teams and leagues
  • Rus Yusupov – graphic and visual designer; Internet entrepreneur; co-founder of Vine and HQ Trivia apps

Illustration

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Music

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Photography

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Visual narrative

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  • Louisa Bertman – illustrator, animated shorts, animated gifs, film, computer art, visual narrative

Other

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Notable faculty

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Animation

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Art history

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Cartooning

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Fine arts

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Graphic design

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Illustration

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Photography

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Filmmaking

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MFA computer art

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References

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  1. ^ Halm, Dan (Winter 2002). "Soaking in Talent" Visual Arts Journal, School of Visual Arts (New York City). pp. 24 – 25.
  2. ^ "2019 Emmy Nominations Honor Alumni Dan Minahan, Rebecca Sugar, Chris Prynoski, and More," SVA Features (July 26, 2019).
  3. ^ "Newgrounds".
  4. ^ Furman, T.J. "Bordentown native creates MTV cartoon: Cable network's newest show to premiere Tuesday", Princeton Packet, July 31, 1999. Accessed December 11, 2007. "Chris Prynoski graduated from SVA in 1994 and started working for MTV the next day."
  5. ^ “Animation is Magic”: SVA Alumnus VivziePop on Perseverance, Inspiration and “Hazbin Hotel.” (2021). Sva.edu.
  6. ^ "Ric Estrada". Lambiek Comiclopedia. March 14, 2008. Archived from the original on December 13, 2013.
  7. ^ Spurgeon, Tom. "Bill Gallo, 1922-2011," The Comics Reporter (June 7, 2011).
  8. ^ Nadel, Dan. "Wally Wood Should Have Beaten Them All," Comics Comics (FEBRUARY 18, 2010).
  9. ^ Linderman, Jim. "A Long-Lost Artist of the 1950s Sexual Underground," Hyperallergic (January 5, 2015).
  10. ^ Schelly, Bill (2010). Founders of Comic Fandom: Profiles of 90 Publishers, Dealers, Collectors, Writers, Artists and Other Luminaries of the 1950s and 1960s. McFarland. pp. 26–27. ISBN 978-0-7864-5762-5.
  11. ^ Sandomir, Richard. "Nick Meglin, 82, a Mad Magazine Mainstay, Is Dead," New York Times (June 12, 2018).
  12. ^ Pérez Seves, Richard (2018). Eric Stanton & the History of the Bizarre Underground. Atglen: Schiffer. pp. 12–18. ISBN 9780764355424.
  13. ^ "Tony Tallarico Bio". National Cartoonist Society. Archived from the original on June 22, 2011.
  14. ^ "Herb Trimpe". Lambiek Comiclopedia. September 5, 2012. Archived from the original on December 20, 2013. Retrieved January 16, 2014.
  15. ^ Bails, Jerry; Ware, Hames. "Verpoorten, John". Who's Who of American Comic Books, 1929–1999.
  16. ^ Tisserand, Michael. "Q&A Ray Billingsley," Visual Arts Journal (Fall/Winter 2020), pp.60-65.
  17. ^ "The Will Eisner Influence," School of Visual Arts Calendar of Events for Thursday, March 17, 2016. Accessed Dec. 2, 2019.
  18. ^ Morgan, Jeffrey. "John Holmstrom: Floating in a bottle of formaldehyde", Metro Times, February 4, 2004. Accessed July 6, 2008. "Harvey Kurtzman and Will Eisner (my teachers at the School of Visual Arts who both later hired me for freelance work before I started PUNK) also had a huge influence on me."
  19. ^ Conte, Annemarie. "His Name is Earl". New Jersey Monthly. February 6, 2008. Accessed June 21, 2011. "After graduating from New York's School of Visual Arts in the early 1980s, McDonnell moved to Hoboken, where there was a community of underground cartoonists."
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  23. ^ Herbowy, Greg and Michelle Mackie, “Shelf Liners,” Visual Arts Journal: School of Visual Arts Magazine (Fall 2017).
  24. ^ "MULTIVERSO DC: Exclusive interview with Jamal Igle" Archived 2010-10-13 at the Wayback Machine. Titans Tower. March 2008
  25. ^ Dery, Mark (March 19, 2006). "A Cartoonist in Despair? Now That's Funny". The New York Times. Retrieved February 9, 2009.
  26. ^ Glaser, Brian. "Q+A: Joe Quesada". Visual Arts Journal. School of Visual Arts. Fall 2011. pages 50-55.
  27. ^ "SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS ALUMNI BLACK PANTHER PANEL," ShawnMartinbrough.com (Sept. 18, 2008).
  28. ^ "Get To Know: BFA Cartooning Faculty Member Alitha Martinez," School of Visual Arts website (April 8, 2021).
  29. ^ Wolfe, Kristin L. "Spotlight New England: James Sturm," Visual Arts Journal: School of Visual Arts Magazine (Spring 2018), p. 43.
  30. ^ Gustines, George Gene. "Superhero Stylings From Stars of Pop". The New York Times. October 20, 2007. Accessed November 27, 2007. "For Mr. Way, "Umbrella Academy" was another way to be productive when he wasn't recording with the band. It also used skills he developed as a student at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan."
  31. ^ Drew, Emma. "SVA and New York Comic-Con: 2019 Preview," SVA Features (September 27, 2019).
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  33. ^ Chevat, Zoe. "The Mary Sue Interview: Sexy Comics Artist Jess Fink!". The Mary Sue. Retrieved April 14, 2017.
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  36. ^ Elysee, Greg Anderson. "Getting to Know Black / Excellence with Khary Randolph," Bleeding Cool (September 25, 2019).
  37. ^ "'My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea'" Screening with Director Dash Shaw," SVA Calendar of Events for Thursday, March 16, 2017. Accessed Dec. 2, 2019.
  38. ^ Mallozzi, Vincent M. (October 14, 2010). "Drawn Together by a Love of Cartooning". City Room [blog]. The New York Times. Retrieved January 24, 2018.
  39. ^ Raina Telgemeier (September 12, 2016). "Get That Life: How I Became a Best-Selling Graphic Novelist" (Interview). Interviewed by Heather Wood Rudulph. Cosmopolitan. Retrieved January 24, 2018.
  40. ^ Mozzocco, J. Caleb. "First Second’s Tenth Year: Sara Varon Looks Back On Her Comics Decade [Interview]," Comics Alliance (April 4, 2016).
  41. ^ Kit, Borys (31 May 2017). "Fox Animation Picks Up 'Witch Boy' Graphic Novel (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 24 November 2018.
  42. ^ Cotroneo, Nicole. "Mouse Almighty", The New York Times, November 4, 2007. Accessed November 27, 2007. "...he grew up in North Shore Towers, on the Queens-Nassau County border, and after receiving his bachelor of fine arts degree from the School of Visual Arts in New York City, he studied photography at C. W. Post."
  43. ^ "Andrew Bowser". IMDb.
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  45. ^ Burlingame, Jon. "Michael Giacchino's Mission: Make the Old Music New", The New York Times, May 7, 2006. Accessed November 27, 2007. "The backyard for Mr. Giacchino, 38, was in Edgewater Park, N.J., where he grew up watching — and listening to — Hanna-Barbera cartoons, "The A-Team" and reruns of "The Dick Van Dyke Show." He graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York, but, as music became his main interest, he took classes at Juilliard and, later, film-music extension courses at U.C.L.A."
  46. ^ "Joseph M. Petrick". IMDb.
  47. ^ Weinraub, Bernard. "FILM; An Unusual Choice for the Role of Studio Superhero", The New York Times, July 9, 2000. Accessed November 27, 2007. "Mr. Singer attended the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan for two years, and then transferred to the University of Southern California."
  48. ^ "Robert Beauchamp, American (1923 - 1995)". Ro Gallery. 2011. Retrieved 30 Jun 2011.
  49. ^ Morris, Bob. "Cable's First Lady Of Explicit", The New York Times, June 23, 1996. Accessed December 3, 2007. "At 17, Ms. Byrd got her graduate equivalency diploma and then pursued advertising design at Baruch College but dropped out in her senior year. By then it was the early 1970s and she was modeling at the School of Visual Arts, where she had been taking life-drawing classes."
  50. ^ Schweibert, Ray. "5 Questions With … Pop Artist Charles Fazzino". Atlantic City Weekly.
  51. ^ Honolulu Museum of Art, Spalding House Self-guided Tour, Sculpture Garden, 2014, p. 1
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  53. ^ Johnson, Ken. "Images of Vietnamese in the Generation Since the War", October 7, 2005. Accessed November 27, 2007. "Mr. Le came to the United States with his family when he was 11 and eventually received a master of fine arts degree from the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan."
  54. ^ Museum, New (2011-02-25). Rethinking Contemporary Art and Multicultural Education. Taylor & Francis. pp. 205–207. ISBN 978-1-136-89030-7.
  55. ^ Kastner, Jeffrey. "ART / ARCHITECTURE; Discovering Poetry Even in the Clutter Around the House", The New York Times, July 11, 1999. Accessed November 27, 2007. "Since completing her master's degree at the School of Visual Arts in New York in 1997, she has mounted projects at institutions across Europe, from Greece and Luxembourg to France and Austria."
  56. ^ "«I Sopranos? No agli stereotipi ma non facciamone un dramma» – Federico Castelluccio, il Furio Giunta della celebre serie tv, a Toronto per incontrare gli zii" Archived 2007-11-03 at the Wayback Machine, Corriere Canadese, May 11, 2005
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  62. ^ Rutter Kaye, Joyce, Ed. (Fall 2017). "A Perfect Host", Visual Arts Journal, Volume 25, Number 2, School of Visual Arts (New York City), p. 7.
  63. ^ "Mark Ulano". IMDb. Retrieved 2020-09-24.
  64. ^ Genzlinger, Neil (July 12, 2022). "Spider Webb, Tattoo Artist With a Defiant Streak, Dies at 78". The New York Times. Retrieved July 13, 2022.
  65. ^ Aurelio Voltaire Hernandez Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
  66. ^ Jessica Abel at schoolofvisualarts.edu Archived 2010-05-27 at the Wayback Machine
  67. ^ Sal Amendola at schoolofvisualarts.edu Archived 2012-02-17 at the Wayback Machine
  68. ^ Klaus Jason at schoolofvisualarts.edu Archived 2012-02-17 at the Wayback Machine
  69. ^ Phil Jimenez at schoolofvisualarts.edu Archived 2006-09-13 at the Wayback Machine
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  71. ^ David Mazzucchelli at schoolofvisualarts.eduArchived 2012-02-17 at the Wayback Machine
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  73. ^ Cooke, Jon B. (February 19, 1998). "Orlando's Weird Adventures". Reprinted from From Comic Book Artist #1. TwoMorrows Publishing.
  74. ^ Callahan, Timothy. "When Words Collide: Dialogue with Walt Simonson, Pt. 1", Comic Book Resources, May 9, 2011
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  76. ^ "James D. DiResta at www.sva.edu".
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  78. ^ Green, Penelope (2021-11-16). "Bob Gill, Graphic Designer Who Elevated the 'Message,' Dies at 90". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-11-19.
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