Monday, August 11th / Wednesday, August 13th / Friday, August 15th / 6pm-8pm
This is a three-day, free event open to all writers via RSVP. We are accepting 12 writers on a first-come, first-served basis.
Welcome to Third Lantern Lit's First Workshop on the Graphic Novel, writing for comics, and the art of cartooning!
Learn how to craft an illustrative memoir from short generative writing prompts or work from a fully-plotted manuscript. Find a way to tell your story in words and pictures with helpful tips, tricks, and exercises to make this process fun.
This workshop is open to writers of all styles and skill levels. Whether or not you feel confident in your proficiency as an artist, come in with a personal story you'd like to tell! You'll be brought up to speed in the intuitive toolbox of visual storytelling by Antigravity magazine feature illustrator & Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) MFA graduate Romey Petite.
Day One: Making Worlds
Day Two: Creative Nonfiction & Memoir
Day Three: Autobiographical Comics
About Romey Petite
Romey Petite is an illustrator for Antigravity magazine, an MFA graduate of the Center for Cartoon Studies, and a board member of the Neutral Ground Coffeehouse nonprofit. Romey recently completed his forthcoming graphic memoir COMICORPSE and is currently working on a novel about the Tarot and the Fool's Journey. He lived in North Carolina for several years, but originally hails from New Orleans. He has published a fairy tale called Spiderella, about a girl who speaks with spiders, and it is still his favorite book. His short fiction has been published in the Fiends in the Furrows: Anthology of Folk Horror Vol. 1, Coffin Bell Journal, and on the Fairy Tales for Unwanted Children podcast. He co-founded a queer punk band known as The Frozen Charlottes. Sometimes, he wears a costume to read poetry and macabre tales while playing a fictional dead author for attention. He enjoys a little good whimsy. The living author can be found washing dishes or making coffee, but dreams of teaching comics as literature full-time.
IG: @romeypetite
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