Comics & Zines—for Everyone!
This event has been cancelled.
Are you interested in zines and comics, but aren't sure where to start? Come to a fun, multigenerational workshop led by Elvis and Jan, two seasoned comics creators who will bring their enthusiasm for the medium, and also writing prompts and activities. Comics are for everybody—whether you're into superheroes or independent, small booklets, we look forward to playing with character formation, narrative, and sequential experimentation of all kinds.
For ages 11 and up.
Co-taught by Elvis B. They are the author of "Homos in Herstory," a gleeful zine journey into queer history, and oodles of other fun comics-based works. Elvis co-founded the NYC Feminist Zinefest in 2012, and they've given talks at colleges and universities around the Northeast.
Jan Descartes is a Brooklyn-based artist, educator and curator. She is a graduate of Syracuse University (BA), Carnegie Melon University (MFA) and CUNY Graduate Center, Through her artistic, academic and professional life, art and accessibility has been a major theme, culminating in her current thesis regarding trauma and memory in public aesthetic spaces. Jan is co-creator and artist for the webcomic Heartland Comic, where personal memoir and identity politics meet comix. She hopes to facilitate DIY comic-making as an accessible means to explore personal experience and resistance in the everyday.
