This intensive week-long course will kickstart that graphic memoir you’ve been planning by introducing the vocabulary of cartooning and comic systems. The course is designed to help each student to shape their own visual language. Bring your family stories, biographies and health journeys along with your personal papers and historical documents. Each day we will move our project forward while producing short comics designed around learning and making comics. The entire week will include discussions of graphic stories, lessons on comic form and considerable amounts of time to draw, write and critique work with each other. We will build our own comics community while also making powerful non-fiction comics!
Note: Water-based materials only.
LJ-Baptiste is an art educator and cartoonist from Boston. He has collaborated with media giants such as Google, Hasbro, and PBS to produce essential works of art. He is best known for his ongoing comic book series, COMIXSCAPE, which features the adventures of a bright-eyed, perpetually preteen boy and his raccoon sidekick. In addition, he works as part of the team that makes up Comics in Color, a Boston-based comic collective and now annual festival centered on stories by and about people of color. Whether it’s work in animation, graphic apparel designs, or COMIXSCAPE, LJ’s art can be described as distinctive, masterful, and captivating. When it comes to visual communication, LJ prioritizes authenticity, details, and positive messages. LJ-Baptiste
