Fundamentals for Writing and Illustrating Your First Comic

Let's create our very first comic book! This class is great for absolute beginners to storytelling, specifically those interested in creating stories through the comic book form. In this class, Illustrator and Comic Book Artist Julia Mata walks us through all the steps to finish a written and illustrated comic. To keep it simple, we will be using everyday life to begin building our comic world. 

Creating a comic book can be daunting but we hope by breaking down each step you will gain insight on how to start creating your own slice of life comic!

Techniques you will learn: 

• Brainstorming & Conceptualizing Your Idea 
• Story basics: Setting, Character, Plot 
• Understanding Story Arc 
• Penciling your comic
• Inking your comic 

Julia P. Mata is an illustrator, comic book artist, and event producer in New York with familial roots in Central America and the Eastern European Jewish Pale of Settlement. She is an independent curator and one-third of the Spicy Mango Comics publications collective. She has been working professionally as a curator for nearly ten years, and has been a part of various collaborations to produce concerts, radio shows, exhibitions, and parties. As an illustrator, Julia writes and draws the comics series, Crisis! and creates visuals and imagery for women of color run projects and initiatives. Her work has been published in Horchata Zine, Hyrsteria Zine, Freaks Comix, the Betty’s and Chiflada Zine amongst others.