Howard Wong

I will be doing comic book consultations every Sunday in June! $25 Resident Fee for 45 minute consultation. Sign-up here !   Description   Get a private 1-on-1 comic book coaching with a professional comic book creator, and get answers and insights to your comic book creating questions! Are you working on your own comic book but feeling stuck? Do you have burning questions about story, character development, or the comic publishing process? This is your chance to get personalized guidance from a professional comic book creator and award-nominated comic author, Howard Wong!   In this exclusive 1-on-1 consultation, you'll get:    Expert advice tailored to your specific comic book project.  Answers to any roadblocks you're facing, from concept to execution. Insights on the comic book industry from a published creator.  Actionable steps to elevate your comic and take it to the next level.  Here's what Howard Wong brings to the table:   Award-No...

Want to jumpstart your comic, but have no idea where to begin? Hitting a roadblock with your comic? These workshops are for you!  Join Keith Grachow (Professional Indie Comic Book Illustrator, Creator and Writer) and Howard Wong (Professional Comic Book Creator, Writer and Nat Geo Mentor) for a 3-hour workshop where you will learn how to create a comic book, write stories and/or world-build for animation and video games.  We will teach you some of the basics to get you started in character design, world-building, and comic scripting. Each workshop will be tailored to your experience and skill set. No prior experience necessary.  For : All Ages, Any skill level  Number of Spots : 8  Time : 11 am to 2 pm Dates: April 6th, May 18th and June 15th  Fee: $100 + HST  Location: Wayside Comics & Cocktail, 200 Main St. S, Newmarket, ON Info and Sign-up: Scan QR code or use link:  https://www.jnkimagery.com/form/creating-comic-books-workshop-registration...

Join me at Markham Public Library, Angus Glen to learn how to make a comic from idea to 1 page draft comic story.  Jumpstart your comic writing during this two-hour workshop, where participants will go from idea to a first draft of a one-page comic story. Joining us will be local expert, Howard Wong, Creative Development and Narrative Specialist, who has worked for many leaders in the creative industry including Bandai Namco Asia Company Limited, Bungie Inc., Hong Kong Disneyland, Marvel Comics, National Geographic Asia, and Threezero (Hong  Kong) Ltd. This program is for children age 9-15. SIGN UP HERE!   Suitable for: Children Type: Creative Expression Language: English  

Join me, Keith Grachow and Jason Lapidus at Creating Comic Books: Idea to Page at Richmond Hill Public Library - Central for this two session comic book creating workshop for teens to adults! Wednesday, Jan. 24 | 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Wednesday, Feb. 7 | 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Ages: Adults (teens welcome) SIGN UP HERE! "Ever thought about creating your own comic book? Jumpstart your comic writing during this workshop series, where participants will go from idea to a first draft of a one-page comic story. No art experience required. Led by artists and published comic creators Howard Wong, Keith Grachow, and Jason Lapidus. No previous experience needed. This program will take place in Room A.

Join me and Keith Grachow in this fun dive into how to make your own comic where we go over all of the fundamental essentials to make your own comic!

  Happy holidays! I hope this finds you doing well! As some of you may know, I have been busying working on creating comic book workshops with a micro-grant from the York Region Arts Council , which helped to jumpstart this endeavour I had in mind for quite some time. I started designing them for beginners, as there is much interest from young creators looking at making their own comic books! I have completed workshops that provide an overview of what a comic book consists of that includes going from idea to story, and story to script. I have hosted a bunch of these workshops with various aged participants with much success. For the last little while, I was looking at furthering the development towards my long-term goal of having a set of workshops that would stack skills and perhaps lead to full lessons. The last workshop for 2020 I put together was a 3-day workshop for Figment Toronto where I invited artist Jason Lapidus to be a part of. Figment Toronto's usual 2-day in the park ...

  And our internet is sort of working. As you may recall we've been having connection issues with our internet provider where we have attempted to fix with their many suggestions. It's not at a100%, but a lot more stable to use until they figure a better solution. With that out of the way, let me say that I haven't had time to really work on Unlocking the Secrets of Creating Comic Books due to the above-mentioned and the challenges that come with it when you have kids doing online school.  That's the not so great news, but rest assured I will be back at it soon enough with some news that I will share when everything is set and done. With all that is happening in the world, I'm pretty happy with the progress made to the first of many workshops I have planned and even finalized the syllabus for it all. That's right! I put together a syllabus to help guide where the development of the workshops will head, with the opportunity for anything to be tweaked as needed. I...

I had a wonderful time presenting a workshop on comic book writing at King Con this week. That was one of the highlights of this week with the other I can't talk about until next year, but it does involve comics. As some of you may know, we've been struggling with an awful internet connection for the last two-plus weeks and finally have a solution from our internet provider that I hope does the trick. Our internet connection has been flickering on-and-off like a kid flicking on-and-off the room light. I did the online workshop via my mobile data to make sure that didn't happen while I was presenting it. After many failed solutions to fix our problem, our internet provider is sending a replacement for our internet modem. As to when it will arrive? I have my fingers crossed that it will be this week...in a month?  This has made progress with my workshop development a little different, but like always you need to be resilient and flexible, just like in making comic books. Meet...

  It has been a week of internet troubles. Our ISP hasn't figured out why it keeps cutting in and out on us. Not a fun thing as you can imagine. So plans were shifted and I decided to dive into more books and made notes for things I planned on doing much later. After developing the general overview workshops my plan was to create in-depth workshops focusing on story development, comic book creating processes and more, which will involve friends and colleagues in the comic book industry.  So in a way, I'm ahead on my to-do list for Unlocking the Secrets of Creating Comic Books. Hopefully, they figure what's going on with our internet soon. As much fun it is doing webinars off my phone, I rather do them on my laptop where I can see people's faces a little easier. Fingers crossed they'll figure it out this coming week. Funny thing, they gave me a call in the middle of me writing this with the report of having no idea just yet why we're experiencing these difficulti...

Been a busy week maintaining deadlines for the miniseries I mentioned last week, and refining a webinar on how to write a comic book.  I will be presenting for a video game services company and its affiliates from various parts of the world this week. This will be interesting to see how the changes I've made to this workshop will go, especially knowing that there will be artists and writers in attendance.  This is different from the ones I do for young creators who are mainly aged10 and under or 11-14, and 15-18, where I go deeper and talk about some of the complexities involved when you script a comic book. It always amazes me how the young creators fearlessly jump into creating something without being hindered by the fear of making mistakes and constantly changing/refining their creative output. The older creators tend to overthink it all and take smaller leaps of faith in creating. I've taken note and have tweaked my workshops and webinars to work with these in mind. After ...

I took a break from working on the workshops to work on creator-owned books, as I was a little behind the schedule I had set for myself for where they should be. Though as I did I ended up making notes of my process shortcuts in story development, scripting and other related comic book production that I plan to add or amend what I have been working on so far for Unlocking the Secrets of Creating Comic Books.  I find it interesting that when you sit down to work on something, you find the best ideas doing something else. Like when you try to make up a story at a specific time, only to find your best ideas when you aren't working on the story. For the coming week, I will be looking at how I can use my own process experience and refined the workshops and flesh them out as well. Before I end this production diary entry, here's a sneak peek at a work-in-progress for a cover that I was discussing with my team for an upcoming miniseries that I will be talking about soon.