This volume s cutting-edge essays interviews and course syllabi provide the first-ever blueprint for teaching and practicing the dynamic art and craft of illustration. This revolutionary book fills a practical and an intellectual void for educators students and professionals in the field of illustration. Based on interviews with top illustrators and teachers the book discusses how professionals acquired their illustration know-how and went on to apply it in their careers. Also explored are model illustration education curriculafor both undergraduate and graduate levelscreated by leading illustration educators and practitioners. Offering a diverse range of attitudes philosophies and visions this book is the first to address pressing issues confronting education in the illustration arts including such concerns as authorship new media and the marriage of illustration and design.