$0.00 – $10.00
A very chill, low-key monthly meetup to share comics about chronic illness.
About the meetup:
Do you make or read comics about chronic illness? Come hang out and share your work! This is a very chill, low-key monthly meetup. An artist will offer a reflective drawing prompt for the first 30 minutes of the time, then the second half will be about sharing work and experiences.
This is a meetup we’re offering for free, it’s totally 100% great to register at the $0 rate! But if you have money to spare and want to support our work, we made it possible to throw us $5-10.
Date:
This is an online meetup that lasts for an hour and fifteen minutes, facilitated by Zareen Choudhury. This meetup will happen monthly throughout 2025 and the next one is on Sunday, February 16 at 1pm PT / 4pm ET.
If you register for this workshop, we’ll add you to an email list to be notified about each upcoming Chronic Illness Comic Club meetup in 2025. Everyone who registers will be invited to join our Discord, where we have a Chronic Illness Comics Club discussion channel.
What you need:
• Drawing supplies. You can draw on paper or digitally, whatever you prefer. You’re welcome to use whatever materials you have on hand, whether it’s colored pencils, watercolors, or ink pens.
• Feel free to bring work to share! In the second half of this time, you can share what you made in response to the prompt, as well as other comics you’re working on.
About the facilitator:
Zareen will run the first three or four sessions of this meetup, and then we may rotate facilitators.
Zareen Choudhury is a Bangladeshi American cartoonist based in San Francisco. Her interests lie in using art, humor, and storytelling to uplift marginalized voices and create community through shared experiences. Her work has been published in The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, and The Nib, and showcased at the Cartoon Art Museum, Silver Sprocket, and more. Zareen has been recognized as a Creative in Residence at The Ruby, Guest Cartoonist at the Charles Schulz Museum, Showcase Artist at Kearny Street Workshop, and member of the National Cartoonists Society.
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
