YRAC + Figment Toronto + Comic Book Creating Workshops
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 ...