Bradley Guigar

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Bradley Guigar

Adjunct Professor, Screenwriting

BFA Alma College

Contact Info

Screenwriting

“Storytelling is like planning a road trip from San Francisco to L.A. and realizing the best route is through Chicago. It's not where you go, but how.”

Brad Guigar been teaching Storytelling at UArts since 2018. Additionally, Guigar is a full-time independent cartoonist and publisher with 20 years’ experience in the comics industry.

Biography
Guigar started his first daily comic strip, Greystone Inn, in February 2000 and built it to a readership of tens of thousands, both online and in newspapers. In 2005, he ended Greystone Inn and launched Evil Inc, which continues to this day as a graphic novel. 

In 2007, Guigar was nominated for the highest honor in comics in the U.S., the Will Eisner Award, for his journalistic comic, Phables, which ran in the Philadelphia Daily News. He was also nominated for a Silver Reuben by the National Cartoonists Society. The weekly podcast Guigar co-hosts with fellow cartoonist Dave Kellett, ComicLab, has more than 300,000 downloads and is often described as NPR's Car Talk, but for cartoonists. 

Experience

Guigar has published over two dozen print collections of his comics and has written three books on the subject of cartooning, including two that focus on the business of independent comics. Previously, he taught both Sequential Art and Arts Entrepreneurship at Hussian College School of Art in Philadelphia. 

Websites:
Evil Inc 
Webcomics 
Comic Lab Podcast 


Work
Comic Lab podcast trailer 


Webcomics video: How to Build an Audience

Awards & Accolades

  • Comic Book Writer of the Year, Philadelphia Geek Awards, 2012
  • Nominated for Will Eisner Award for “Phables,” 2007
  • Best local columnist, Philadelphia Society of Professional Journalists, 2006

Contact
bguigar@uarts.edu
267-207-1078

A comic of the grim reaper's daughter lowering the battery level of a human's phone on "Take Your Daughter to Work Day".
A comic of a couple at a farmer's market stand labeled "Local! Organic!" and the attendant says "Well yes, of course, they're children..."
A comic of the mayor of Gotham handing Batman Gotham's username and password instead of a key to the city because of budget cuts.