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!

It has been an interesting week. Since the announcement of being a recipient of the York Region Arts Council's Mirco Grant Program, I've been digging into all the workshops and talks I've done at conventions to festivals to consolidate all the materials and topics I have covered. I found myself having mixed feelings over particular topics on story development I've covered. This is the first time that I'm looking over everything as a whole. Fascinating looking back at all the particular topics I have covered, and thinking back to what worked and what needs improvements. Kind of like finding pieces to a puzzle you're not sure what it will really look like until you get closer to completing it. This also made me think of my own story development process and how I could improve it. In any creative endeavour, there are always challenges you have to meet and overcome. For some, it's seeking inspiration to create, while for others it's the act...

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...

What an amazing show! Got to see old friends and catch up with their shenanigans, as well as making new friendships which is one of the many reasons why I like the comic book community. Photos taken by Paul Hiller. Photos taken by Paul Hiller. Got to hang out with one of the best con neighbours I've had, Casey Parsons. He was busy painting covers and sketches folks as made incredibly bad dad jokes. Seeing old fans and meeting new ones is always a highlight of the show for me. So many passionate folks came by to talk to me about old and new stories I've written, which still boggles my mind. Thank you for the support! Sorry if you don't see yourself here. I tend to forget to grab a snap when I'm talking. Last, but not least I want to thank all the folks that make Fan Expo Canada what it is! Happy 25th to you too! My kid s marched me to this huma n crane game at the Adult Swim booth with hopes I'd toss my cooki...

I'll be at Fan Expo Canada with books, stories and a few dad jokes. Find me at P032B. I'll update this post when the floor plan is up. See you there!

It was an adventurous two weeks doing talks and workshops at 12 (local and international) schools across Hong Kong with students aged 5 to 17. Being able to share my passion for crafting stories, behind-the-scenes experiences working in different industries, writing techniques I've developed over the years with over 2000 students made it very memorable. Some fun memories I had with my time with the students from all the different schools were of some asking me fun geeky questions to very thought-provoking ones like the one about how one overcomes adversity, to those about armpit farts (yes, really). There were also a few future artists who shared some of their artwork with me that they did during my talks. There were many more memorable moments that involved Star Wars to a pop singer and Stan Lee I had a lot of fun doing two workshops at the public event at Lee Gardens 2, where I met many aspiring future authors! Not to mention amazing futu...

It was a great time getting to talk with Noreen Mir's 1-2-3 Show on RTHK about my first children's illustrated book and other fun things! Give a listen here: https://podcast.rthk.hk/podcast/item.php?pid=1762&eid=170467&lang=en-US You can watch me on the radio on Youtube:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsGiAWZO0H0 Or if you want to see on the Facebook Live recording scan this QR code:

I will be back in Hong Kong for the 2019 Hong Kong International Young Reader's Festival this March 4th to 15th! I'll be doing workshops and talks along with some of your favourite authors at schools and public events! Click the links below for more details! For details about which authours will be attending,  click here . For details of the workshops and talks, click here . About The Hong Kong International Young Readers Festival (HKIYRF): Founded in 2012, is an annual event held over 10 days each spring, featuring established and emerging writers from around the world in an extensive programme designed for young adults that include discussions, workshops, lectures, book signings, and readings. We are proud to host writers from all over the world, in a variety of genres, and at all stages of their careers, from Nobel laureates to first-time authors.

Had a fun time speaking with John Swinimer from Toronto North Country Comics about things I've done, food and things I'd like to get back into.  Here's the link to the podcast:  https://truenorthcountrycomics.com/2019/01/07/howard-wong-chats-about-his-love-for-comics-travel-and-food/

2018 Indie Author Day 2018 was great! Met wonderful diverse authors with interesting stories and awesome readers! Readers at a library? Who would have guessed? This was my first time attending and for the library, I was their first comic book writer. So a few unknowns from both sides. Went in not knowing what to really expect. Luckily people working there and fellow authors were great in letting me know how things were in past Indie Author Days. But being a comic book writer in an event where the norm are book authors, my experience was little different. As I was setting up, people started to notice that I was not a book author, but a comic book writer. This led to curiosity and the first question all comic book writers get by those who aren't avid comic book readers, "Do you draw?" No, I don't. Okay, that a lie. I draw, but horribly bad. Some comic book writers do write and draw, but most of us don't. We mainly just write. I can write and le...