$150.00 – $300.00
Find your visual style and unique voice in this class focused on experimental approaches to comics.
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Bring a story you’re interested in working on to this class—whether it’s a family history, a memory, a dream, fanfiction, or an original story straight from your brain. Artist Joaquin Golez will guide participants through creating short comics based on individually selected narratives each student chooses.
The six-session class uses lots of creative exercises and playfulness to help creators of all backgrounds and skill-levels to develop strong narratives, characters, and emotions even in very short stories. Participants will engage in flexible, low pressure assignments designed to support the creation of a 1-4ish page comic.
Class dates:
This class runs for six weeks on Sundays from 10am – noon PST/1pm-3pm EST from November 17 – December 22. This class meets online, via Zoom, and is capped at 25 participants. The class will be recorded and emailed to all participants weekly, if you need to miss a session.
What you need:
• Writing and drawing supplies. Students can work in whatever medium they prefer—on paper or digital.
• Bring a story you want to turn into a comic. This can be a fairytale, a dream, a personal or family history, or just an idea you’re working on!
Age restriction
Some of the comics we read will have graphic content, such as nudity and depictions of violence, and discuss the traumas of being alive. Joaquin recommends this class for people ages 15+.
About the teacher:
Joaquin Golez is an illustration artist, tattooist in training, and a mixed-race unsortable gender goblin with a gentle heart and a neurospicy brain. He draws evocative and often visually complex images motivated by queerness, eroticism, fantasy, gender mutations, graphic narrative and decorative delights. He teaches illustration at Portland State University.
Questions about this class?
Email Crucial’s publisher at smirk@crucialcomix.com
