Howard Wong

Registration is now open for my Career Development Workshop: Interview Preparation at MTM College!  Early bird registration discount until January 22nd! Details and signup, click here ! 

On May 4th join me online at Markham Public Library's Creative Expression where I will be hosting a talk about the creative work I do, answering your questions about comics, toys and video games and more! It's free!  Click here to book !  Creative Career Talks: Comics & Beyond Ever wondered how you can work in comics, toys or video games? Here's a chance to ask all your questions about that with host 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.. Date: Wednesday, May 4, 2022     Time: 3:00 PM – 3:45 PM Where: Online event         

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...

I am doing an online workshop on how to write comic books for beginners with Richvale Public Library on August 19th from 2pm to 3:30pm. This will be a fun and informative workshop where we will dive into the overall elements you will need to put a comic book together. I may even share some secrets and show some interesting things from home. Can't wait to see you all there! Sign up here:  https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/how-to-write-comic-books-for-beginners-tickets-108999424212 Ages 11-14. Teens will learn about the fundamentals of comic book creation including page layouts and how to turn ideas into a script. About this Event Teens will learn about the fundamentals of comic book creation including page layouts and how to turn ideas into a script from presenter Howard Wong, a published comic book creator who has worked for Marvel Comics, Disney, and more. Please note - any participant  under the age of 18  must have a parent register them and give consent. Parent must al...

Been a little busy and didn't get to spend a lot of time working on Unlocking the Secrets of Creating Comic Books this week. I did manage to build a general outline covering key topics and have been refining them with my experiences from my past workshops and talks I've held, as well as with material from my collection of books that have learned from. I intended to talk with some of my comic book creator colleagues about my workshop outline, but will be pushing that to next week. As a break I designed a logo that I think I may refine later on, though many have expressed positive responses so I may leave it as is. A fun surprise this week was being asked to be a judge for the Consulate General of Canada in Hong Kong and Macao's Create Your Canadian Superhero for Canada Day this year, along with  graphic novelist Renee Nault! You can find details about that here .

In celebration of Canada Day 2020, the Consulate General of Canada in Hong Kong and Macao is calling on all Hong Kong and Macao primary and secondary students to design an original superhero that represents “YOUR CANADA”!  I am honoured to be one of the judges along with graphic novelist Renee Nault.  I can't wait to see what your creative superpowers come up with for a new Canadian superhero ! Winning designs will be used as the covers for their official Canada Day 2020 greeting cards! There are also great prizes to be won! Submission Deadline: June 9, 2020 @ 17:30 (HKT)! Click the link for more details!

I am honoured to announce that I am one of the recipients of York Region Arts Council's   Micro Grant Program ! Congratulations to my fellow recipients, Alex Karolyi, Bindu Shah, Glenn Marais & Mimi O'Bonsawin, Parthiban & Myuri Jeyabalachandran, Matthew Morales, and Tanya Besedina. I can't wait to see and experience all their wonderful projects! My project,  Unlocking the Secrets of Creating Comic Books , is a series of skill stacking comic book creating workshops for 12 to 18-year-olds, where they will be learning all the steps  from concept to completion. There is a lot of work ahead of me and new challenges due to COVID-19, but with the help of the York Region Arts Council's grant it's great to be able to move forward with this project.  I look forward to working with local professional and indie comic book creators, and businesses to make this project a success!  The goal is to inspire and expose young creative minds to th...

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...