by Marc Vitali

On the eve of the big C2E2 comic convention, Chicago Tonight goes behind-the-scenes at a school of comic book and sequential art that started in Italy in 1979. The Scuola Internazionale di Comics -- the International School of Comics -- is based in Rome and runs nine art schools in Italy.

Their trade school approach includes teachers who are also succesful working artists. View a slideshow of courtroom artist and International School of Comics instructor Tom Gianni's fantasy art.

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