$150.00 – $300.00
Get weird. Find your visual style and unique voice in this class focused on experimental approaches to comics.
25 in stock
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 Spring 2025 class runs for six weeks on Sundays from 10am – noon PST/1pm-3pm EST from January 12th – February 16. 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
To make them affordable, all of our classes and workshops are offered at a sliding scale cost.
Supporter - This payment level pitches in a little extra toward the teacher’s income and helps pay artists to create new comics at Crucial. Thanks for your support!
Standard - This is the basic rate for the class, which covers our costs.
Discount - We want people of all income levels in our classes, so choose this rate if you paying the standard rate is a stretch for you.
We set aside three spots in each class to be offered for free to people who would find it a hardship to pay the discount rate for any reason. These free spots are first-come, first-serve. If you would like to take a class for free, please send us a short email about yourself, what class you would like to take, and why. If a free spot is still available, we’ll send you a discount code to register for free! Email: editors@crucialcomix.com
