Howard Wong

I will be presenting two FREE workshops with super talented artist Dominic Chenier for Figment Toronto for those wanting to know how we create characters and comics!  Sign up links for Character Development for Beginners and Making Comics for the First Time workshops can be found below! Please note that each workshop has two parts so if you want to join them all, you will need to sign up for each date. Character Development for Beginners  (Remember to sign up for each date!) : Part 1 - December 4 @ 10 am - 12 pm  Part 2 - December 5 @ 10 am - 12 pm  Making Comics for the First Time  (Remember to sign up for each date!): Part 1 - December11 @ 10 am - 12 pm Part 2 - December 12 @ 10 am - 12 pm Howard Wong - Writer Howard Wong is a Joe Shuster Award: Outstanding Canadian Comic Book Writer nominated author, and creative development strategist working in animation, comic books, high-end collectible toys, video games, intellectual property, and creative content dev...

This is an open call to professional and indie comic book artists, inkers, colourists, letterers and writers residing in York Region. I'm putting together a program of comic book creating workshops and looking for folks in York Region to be a part of this. I received a micro-grant from the York Region Arts Council to jumpstart this and currently in the developmental phase. If you would like to know more about what I have planned and how you can be involved, please PM me here or via my other social media accounts. Feel free to share this post. Thanks!

I hope this finds you healthy and keeping safe at home. I know I have been pretty silent here for a while, but with the dynamic changes to everyone's lives with COVID-19 there have been many changes also to where I was going to be and what I was going to be doing. So, for the time being, I'll be at home and keeping busy working on things that I will get to announce later in the future, as well as putting together things that I have been putting into the back burner for a while now. It was not an easy thing for me to get back to though. It was a challenge to get back into a creative mode. I've been doing it with small steps, day-by-day. I am not as productive as I was before COVID-19. Like many, I was worrying and feeling the weight of the situation from reading all the news from around the world. Not to mention questioning what little importance my contribution to the world is--essentially, making stuff up. I've spoken to many fellow creators out there and we shar...