Everyone Can (and Should) Make Mental Health Comics

Sat, Apr 22 2023
1:00 pm – 2:15 pm
Virtual

comics Cool Work x Interesting People health and wellness humanities and art LGBTQ mental health

ASL interpretation and live captioning in English will be provided. If you would like to request interpretation in another language, please email lhurwitz@bklynlibrary.org, and we will do our best to accommodate.

Come explore your personal voice in this mental health comics workshop led by cartoonist, Lawrence Lindell. In this workshop, you will explore how you can use comics to get your emotions and feelings and thoughts out of your head and on to the page. Come ready to draw with anything you see fit to use. 

All attendees will receive a free snail mailed copy of the Cool Work x Interesting People: Graphic Medicine zine.

Lawrence Lindell is an artist, musician and educator from California who works in many artistic disciplines, including comics, music, illustration, and mixed media. He is the co-founder of Laneha House. Lindell has been self-publishing his work for a decade and was nominated for the Believer Book Awards and the Dwayne McDuffie Award for Diversity in Comics.  Lindell frequently contributes to the New Yorker Daily Shouts, The Sf Examiner and Razorcake. His graphic novel ‘Blackward” is out the fall with Drawn and Quarterly. 

Image credit: Lawrence Lindell

This project is funded by the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, under Cooperative Agreement Number UG4LM012347 with the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester.

Add to My Calendar 04/22/2023 01:00 pm 04/22/2023 02:15 pm America/New_York Everyone Can (and Should) Make Mental Health Comics <p>ASL interpretation and live captioning in English will be provided.&nbsp;If you would like to request interpretation in another language, please email lhurwitz@bklynlibrary.org, and we will do our best to accommodate.</p> <p>Come explore your personal voice in this mental health comics workshop led by cartoonist, Lawrence Lindell. In this workshop, you will explore how you can use comics to get your emotions and feelings and thoughts out of your head and on to the page. Come ready to draw with anything you see fit to use.&nbsp;</p> <p>All attendees will receive a&nbsp;free snail mailed copy of the Cool Work x Interesting People: Graphic Medicine&nbsp;zine.</p> <p><a href="https://lawrencelindell.com">Lawrence Lindell</a>&nbsp;is an artist, musician and educator from California who works in many artistic disciplines, including comics, music, illustration, and mixed media. He is the co-founder of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.lanehahouse.com">Laneha House</a>. Lindell has been self-publishing his work for a decade and was nominated for the Believer Book Awards and the Dwayne McDuffie Award for Diversity in Comics.&nbsp; Lindell frequently contributes to the New Yorker Daily… Brooklyn Public Library - Virtual MM/DD/YYYY 60