$20.00 – $40.00
Comics can share emotions where words fall short.
11 in stock
About the workshop:
Comics can share emotions where words fall short—like the complicated, devastating, and hopeful feelings many people are processing when facing the future of our world. Two cartoonists with new books that grapple with climate grief and anxiety team up to lead this two-hour workshop. Artists Denali Sai Nalamalapu, author of the new book Holler: A Graphic Memoir of Rural Resistance, and Madeleine Jubilee Saito, author of the new book You Are a Sacred Place: Visual Poems for Living in Climate Crisis, will share examples from their books as well as the work of other artists and guide participants through a reflective and creative comics-making activity.
Date:
This is a 2-hour online workshop on Tuesday, May 20th, 2pm-4pm PST/5pm-7pm EST. The workshop is capped at 25 participants. Everyone who signs up will receive a Zoom link via email and then a recording of the workshop afterwards.
What you need:
• Bring writing and drawing materials. We’ll be doing some freewriting and then drawing short comics. You can work with any tools you enjoy, like watercolor, digital drawing, or colored pencils.
About the teacher:
Denali Sai Nalamalapu (they/them) is the author of Holler: A Graphic Memoir of Rural Resistance. They are a climate organizer and comic artist living in Southwest Virginia, originally from Southern Maine and Southern India.
Madeleine Jubilee Saito (she/her) is the author of You Are a Sacred Place: Visual Poems for Living in Climate Crisis. She is a cartoonist and artist from rural Illinois living in Seattle. In 2022, Madeleine was an inaugural artist-in-residence at On Being, and her comics opened each section of All We Can Save, the bestselling anthology of climate writing.
Questions about this workshop?
Email Crucial Comix publisher Shay 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
