Learn to Grade Comic Books (Udemy.com)

Buy and Sell Your Comic Books with Confidence

Created by: Kevin Volo

Produced in 2018

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What you will learn

  • You will be able to grade comics at any grade level, from 0.5 to 10.0
  • You will learn to identify defects in comics that set them at a specific grade
  • You will also learn how to take care of your comics to keep them in the best shape possible

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Overall Score : 96 / 100

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Course Description

Hello, Im Kevin Volo, and Id like to thank you for checking out my Learn to Grade Comic Books course. When you have completed this course and practiced, you will be able to pick up and grade any comic, whether it's one in your collection or that grail book you finally found at a con.

The Learn to Grade Comic Books course is the most comprehensive course of its kind. In it, I walk you step by step through 27 comics at every grade level from 0.
1 to 10.
0, explaining in detail why they received that grade. For the 25 grade levels from 0.
5 to 10.
0, I bought and cracked professionally graded books just for these videos 24 graded by CGC and one by PGX so that we would have a solid baseline for understanding the criteria at each grade level.

In each video, we move up the grading scale, first examining the CGC graded comic, and then we look at two different comics with the same grade to compare and contrast their differences, because even though they are the same grade, they can look quite different.

Well examine these differences and learn additional details of handling, grading, and properly caring for comics in more than 30 1080p HD videos, with high resolution images to help make the details crystal clear. Thats over 8 hours of course content. Plus bonus material!

Ive been reading and collecting comics since I was 12 years old and love everything about comics. I had a blast creating these videos, looking through and grading some really amazing comics. So I hope youll enroll in the course and take the first steps to learn to grade your comic books with confidence! Thanks.
Who this course is for:
Any comic book collector who wants to know the grade of their comicsA comic book store ownerA collector who is selling comics on ebay or FacebookSomeone who is thinking of sending comics off to a grading company

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Instructor Details

Kevin Volo

Kevin Volo is currently an instructional technologist for a State University of New York (SUNY) college in Upstate New York where he helps instructors design and implement their online and hybrid courses.
He is also an active adjunct professor and has been instructing at the college level for more than 20 years, including online and hybrid classes for colleges and on platforms such as Udemy. He teaches a range of courses on topics such as social media, digital photography, graphic design, video editing, and media communications, among others.
He holds a Masters in Information Design and is working on his PhD dissertation in Educational Practice & Theory with a research project exploring the impact of gamification in online learning environments.
Kevin worked as a commercial photographer and graphic designer for over 25 years working in the marketing and advertising industry wherehas worked in both print and web design creating catalogs, web graphics and logos.
Kevin is alsoa freelancecolorist, photographer and graphic designerwhose latest project wascoloristfor the Eisner Award nominated, Meteor Men by Jeff Parker and SandyJarrellfromOniPress. He has worked on several independent titles such as Big Dog Inc's Rex Zombie Killer,Zenoscope's2013 Halloween issue, and Ape Entertainment's Athena Voltaire.

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Reviews

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By Gary S Arkell on 12/20/2020

this is a good course so far but I have to go further to really learn something. I am beginning to see the details and differences between the grades. And I am getting better at using the website.

By Adrian Hines on 11/15/2020

I am enjoying the course so far

By Jeremy D Shorter on 9/16/2020

Great information. I really feel like Im learning a lot. Easy to understand. Great work. Would love some more/additional in-depth reviews, but otherwise, I live this class.

By Mark Brannan on 7/8/2020

Absolutely love this course, learning so much to better my business

By Terry Moore on 7/5/2020

It is good. It explains what some of the conditions are for grading Comics and why.

By Humberto Antonio Chipoco Vidal on 7/3/2020

Si, muy bien explicado y con ejemplos claros para asimilar mejor lo aprendido.

By Karl-Franz Johnson on 7/3/2020

I found this course to be informative and interesting.

By John McQuarrie on 6/21/2020

I am thoroughly enjoying this course! It is very interesting and I am learning a lot.

By Roger Davis on 6/16/2020

Thus far, it's interesting. My knowledge is running with his at this point.

By Vikas Singh on 5/9/2020

Yes. It is helping me understand the ABC of something I had no clue about. Step by step with three reference comics for each grade, we are taught how to look at defects and grade accordingly. Videos are easy to follow. The resources at the end are a great addition. I own one of the largest collection of Tintin comics ( 124 languages). This course will help me a lot in grading them and most importantly bagging them

By Jesus Soto Guantos on 5/4/2020

Si, ha sido de gran ayuda

By Randy Scott on 4/3/2020

The course is great and well put together. Will definitely help me in grading and purchasing comics.