About the Instructors

Lauren Weinstein

Lauren R. Weinstein is an illustrator, cartoonist and teacher in Brooklyn, NY. Her strip, "Notes From Vineyland", ran in Seattle's weekly paper, THE STRANGER for many years. She has also done many comics for teenage girls at gURL.com, including "Am I Fat?" which prompted over 10,000 emails from young women across the world. She has recently published her first book, INSIDE VINEYLAND and teaches cartooning and drawing at and teaches cartooning and drawing at various schools and museums around New York. She also is a singer in the avant-garde rock band, Flaming Fire.

View Lauren Weinstein's resume in PDF form here or zipped Word Doc (right click to download.)
More of her work can be seen www.vineyland.com

Tom Hart

Tom Hart's cartoons have appeared in his own numerous comic books as well as in magazines such as STAR WARS KIDS and PULSE.

He was an early recipient of the Xeric Grant for cartoonists, funded Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle creator Peter Laird, and has been nominated for the comic book industry's most prestigious awards: the Eisner, the Harvey, and the Ignatz.

Hart has contributed to literacy projects for Cartoonists Acoss America, and is a steering committee member of the National Association of Comic Art Educators. He teaches college cartooning at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, where he lives with his wife, Leela.

view Tom Hart's C.V. here in text form or here in PDF form .
Tom Hart's site of comics work at www.newhatstories.com.
Brief publicity PDF of published work here.

StoryArk is also affiliated with groups of cartoonists in around the world and can arrange secondary or surrogate instructors in some instances.