GRAPHIC MEMOIR WEEKEND INTENSIVE
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This class meets
Saturday February 21 & Sunday February 22nd
from noon-3 p.m. PST.
Class meets live on zoom, and will be recorded for students.
You will have access to an online classroom to chat and post your work.
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In this workshop we will explore and practice elements of story-telling in comics, with a focus on diary comics and graphic memoir.
This weekend intensive is perfect for anyone who’s been curious about my 6-week Graphic Memoir course. It will introduce you to my methodology, connect you with other cartoonists, and offer you practices and basic information to support you on your comics path.
Over the weekend we will work with guided cartooning exercises, diary comics, a memoir comic, planning, sketching, and inking.
Students will be able to share and discuss work (in the online classroom) in a supportive atmosphere to highlight each artist’s strengths.
You will have homework.
Students will come away with:
- the techniques, tools, and theory behind legible graphic narrative
- new drawings
- daily drawing exercises and practices that can be used for the Rest Of Their Lives.
- Access to a community of students who have taken courses with me in the past and continue to draw and support one another!
This class will also be peppered with digressions, professional practices tips, and cameos from Ponyo, the dog TA.
This class is appropriate for both beginners and more advanced cartoonists. No drawing experience is required, just a willingness to draw.
Cost: $300
There are no refunds for this class. Please consider before enrolling.
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Note: we will be drawing together in a traditional (aka analog) style.
Supplies/What to bring:
A fresh, blank notebook (like a classic wide-ruled composition book. Keep it simple!)
A pen that is easy for you to write & draw with. Preferably a Papermate Flair Tip pen.
Inking tools:
Micron PN pen (black),
02 size round watercolor brush,
black india ink,
paper towels,
2 jars- one for water and one that can get inky
Mixed Media paper
Anything extra that you’d like to jazz up your drawings with. Brush pens, gouache, colored pencils, etc.
Email me with any questions, but please note that I’m on a book deadline and may be a little delayed in responding.
I look forward to seeing your comics!
About the instructor:
Nicole J. Georges is an award-winning graphic memoirist, podcaster and professor with over 25 years of experience teaching comics. She is the author of the zine Invincible Summer, and the books Calling Dr. Laura, Dog’s Breakfast, and Fetch: How a Bad Dog Brought Me Home, and the forthcoming Emotional Support Animals and The Ballad of Xray and Koko.
Nicole cut her curriculum-development teeth at the Independent Publishing Resource Center’s Comics Certificate Program before she was the fellow at the Center for Cartoon Studies, a Writer in Residence at Colby College and the College of William and Mary. She is a frequent visiting artist at the Sequential Arts Workshop and the Fine Arts Work Center.
Nicole currently teaches at California College of the Arts MFA Comics Program, and has been running independent comics workshops for 5 years.