I am launching this space because the past year has highlighted for me how much comics mean in my life and all the different things that making comics does for me. I consider comics a practice more than a product and that’s something that I would like to share here with the hopes of encouraging a few more people to experiment with comics and explore what making art can bring to their lives.
I will share a bit about how my comics practice functions in my life alongside prompts and exercises in the hopes that you will come “play” in the comics sandbox with me. In the past couple years, I’ve taught workshops on comics in academia and comics for the non-cartoonist, and each time I am overjoyed to watch new people—who almost never consider themselves artists—give comics a try. I firmly believe comics can be for everyone and making comics is a skill that can be learned rather than an inborn talent.
I promise not to overwhelm your inbox. My goal is one to two short posts a month where I talk a bit about what is going on in my creative practice and leave you with a reading, a prompt, or an exercise you can play with on your own time.
I’m not yet offering a paid option, but if I do in the future, it will likely include monthly Zoom-and-draw meet-ups as well as bonus prompts and exercises. (I considered joking that the paid option would be a “No Chaucer Zone” but I could never keep a promise like that…)
Founding members will be thanked in any comics I bring to print during the year and will go on my “postcard list” when I print new postcards - hurrah for snail mail!