Learn How to Create Your Own Comics

January 15, 2021 11:39 AM

Looking for a creative distraction? Want to study with comics luminaries like Mira Jacobs and Ben Passmore? You're in luck--since last April, the Believer Magazine has been hosting hour-long, interactive comics workshops through the Black Mountain Institute YouTube channel, all of which have been archived here.

Here's a breakdown of the individual sessions (in the order in which they appeared):

Quaranzine - A zine workshop with Malaka Gharib & The Believer
I Will Judge You By Your Bookshelf w/ Grant Snider & The Believer
Family! Secrets! Revealed! with Mira Jacob & The Believer
Draw a Comic with Amy Kurzweil and The Believer
Draw a Cartoon You with Leslie Stein and The Believer
Draw Your Lockdown Life with Teresa Wong and The Believer
Self-care Comics with Nicole Georges
Comics As Resistance with Bianca Xunise
Bilingual(-ish) Comics with Kate Gavino
Drawing Health with Georgia Webber
Memory Comics with Lawrence Lindell
Comics Bingo with G.B. Tran
Thinking Through Comics with Whit Taylor
Making Comics for the Politically Indifferent with Ben Passmore
Art Therapy with Kate Lacour
Body Comics with Erin Williams
Draw Your Humiliation in Comics
Creating Comics Without Words with Jonathan Hill
Capturing Comfort with Ashanti Fortson
Political Satire with Bianca Xunise
A Mini-Comics Workshop with Chris Russell
Drawing Selfies with Sharon Lee De La Cruz
Creating Comics to Start a Dialogue with Marguerite Dabaie
Making Comics for a New World with Leila Abdelrazaq
Friday Night Comics: Holiday Special

posted by carrienation (3 comments total)

Note that each of these has a corresponding entry on the Believer's site here too, which sometimes includes supplementary material.
posted by carrienation at 11:46 AM on January 15, 2021

This is really cool! Seeing as I'm very interested in making my own comic I will have to find some time to check these out!
posted by Mr.Encyclopedia at 12:51 PM on January 15, 2021

I'm doing a local zoom workshop with Paul Karasik right now. Well not right right now, we meet on Wednesdays. I'll share this with my classmates! Great post!
posted by vrakatar at 4:13 PM on January 17, 2021