How to Create Comics with K. Woodman-Maynard
Communicating about climate through color, weather, and mood
Today, I’ve got two special climate art events for you! The first is a free workshop I’m co-hosting with K. Woodman-Maynard on creating comics. The second is a recording from the How to Make a Climate Cartoon workshop I co-hosted with Tom Toro last month.
Creating Comics with K. Woodman-Maynard
I’m going to be a guest on K. Woodman-Maynard’s comic-making workshop, K’s Kettle, on August 19th at 3 pm EST. We'll be drawing short comics on the theme of weather.
K. is an incredible watercolor artist and has illustrated the graphic novel adaptation of Tuck Everlasting and The Great Gatsby. In each of these, weather plays an important role in the story, and she’ll share how she depicts it in comics-specific ways.
K. and I will chat while we all make comics for about 40 minutes. It’s a welcoming space to create, learn, and connect. For the last 15 minutes, for those who want to, we’ll share our comics together.
Bring your sketchbook, tablet, or favorite drawing tools, and get ready for a cozy hour of storytelling and drawing in good company.
K. is the expert on comics, but I’ll be sharing some of the tips and tricks I’ve learned over the years on how to use color to convey mood and weather in relation to climate change. Here’s one of my very first comics I did when I went to the Center for Cartoon Studies for a week last summer.
Note: Tuck Everlasting comes out next month! Pre-orders help authors a ton, so if you want to pre-order it, you can here.
Recording of How to Make a Climate Cartoon with Tom Toro
I co-hosted a workshop on How to Make a Climate Cartoon with New Yorker cartoonist, Tom Toro in July and it was amazing!
Here’s some of the art from attendees! We were so impressed with what folks created in under 30 minutes. You can watch the recording above, you download it for free from my website here.
I’m so grateful to be able to collaborate with these incredible artists and friends! I’m looking forward to continuing to bring you free, climate art workshops with some amazing folks in the next few months, too.
Stay cool out there :)
Nicole
What a great duo!
This is so awesome!