Dr. Elvin Hernandez

Assistant Chair, Associate Professor, & Assistant Coordinator Sequential Arts

Email

Dr. Hernandez earned his M.F.A. in Sequential Arts from the Savannah College of Art and Design, and his Ed.D. in Higher Education from Argosy University. He is an educator with over eighteen years’ worth of experience, as well as a practicing freelance artist in the field of comics, illustration, and commercial art. As a Sequential Illustrator, he has worked on art projects for Upper Deck, Topps, Toys R’ Us, the USDA and Focal press (writing and illustrating “Set The Action!”, an educational book on background design for Media Artists, and Kaiser Studio Productions). He has also worked on images and marketing material for DC Entertainment, Marvel, Star Wars, and Unchained Entertainment properties; he has also worked on his own self published endeavors, including his comic “Mundo Rudo!” and his upcoming project “Be Giant!”. As an educator, he has previously taught subjects connected with visual arts and sequential storytelling at institutions including the University of the District of Columbia and the Art Institute of Washington, while also speaking on subjects connected to Sequential Art studies at events such as the San Diego Comic Con, Awesome Con, Ocean City Comic Con and other conventions across the country. Currently he serves as an Associate Professor in the Fine Arts Department at UMES and teaches sequential arts courses as well as art education internship courses. He is originally from Puerto Rico and is fully bilingual in both English and Spanish.