Here's a link to a free online college level course about comics. You can access to pros working in the conventional comics industry this way.
https://www.canvas.net/courses/gender-through-comic-books [canvas.net]

"Gender Through Comics?" Boy, they teach a lot of useless crap in school these days! Yeah, I'm sure it's an interesting topic to discuss idly, but people actually get college credit for stuff like this, the same as learning a programming language or calculus? Humbug, I say!