Upcoming Visual Narrative/Graphic Novel workshop at Fine Arts Work Center

Bestselling cartoonist Josh Neufeld and I co-taught a comics-making workshop last summer in at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and it was a really rewarding experience—for us and for our students. We had a great mix of “serious” comics-makers and writers trying out the form for the first time. We're proud of the work we did together. In fact, one of last year’s students was recently accepted to the Master’s program at the Center for Cartoon Studies with work from our workshop!

In short, we learned that nothing makes a better combination than writing and art, summer, and beautiful P-town. So we’ll be teaching the class again this summer, during the week of July 21–26.
Our workshop is called The Graphic Novel: At the Intersection of Writing and Drawing, and here’s the beginning of the workshop description:

In his seminal work Understanding Comics, cartoonist Scott McCloud writes, “The art form—the medium—known as comics is a vessel which can hold any number of ideas and images.” This class will explore the dynamic realm of sequential art, and the ways that graphic novels/comics can produce powerful moments of frisson between words and images. Some find their way to the form through their writing and others through their art—comics allows for both options. 

Click this link to read more and to find out how to register. We're very excited to work with an adventurous group of writers and cartoonists to produce some dynamic new work this summer!