YOUR STORY MATTERS - Leela Corman 8-week Comics Class - Jan 30 - April 2 - Thursdays 1 pm - 3:00 pm
We’re proud to have Leela Corman returning to teach Comics for 8 weeks on Thursday afternoons!
In Your Story Matters with Leela Corman,
Do you have a story you’ve been dying to tell? Whether it’s fiction or nonfiction, fantasy or autobiography, or a combination of genres, the world needs to read it!
Award-winning cartoonist Leela Corman has been making comics for 20 years, on topics ranging from historical to humorous to the deeply personal. She will take you through 8-weeks of image and story-making designed to help you develop your own symbolic language, explore your narrative depths, and hone your visual storytelling craft. Your story is a gift. Come share it!
This class meets for 8 sessions Thursday afternoons, beginning January 30-April 2, 1:00 - 3:00 pm (no class March 5 or 12)
About the Instructor:
Leela Corman is an illustrator and cartoonist. She is the illustrator of numerous books, record covers and an illustrator who has worked for the New York Times and more. She drew the covers to The Mountain Goats’ Beat the Champ and Goths. She self-published three issues of her minicomic, Flimflam, before winning a 1999 Xeric Grant to publish her first graphic novel, Queen’s Day. Her latest graphic novel, Unterzakhn, has been nominated for the L.A. Times Book Award, the Eisner Award, and Le Prix Artemisia. Unterzakhn has been translated into French, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, and Italian, and won the Best Anglo-American comic at the Rome Festival. She is a contributor to Nautilus Magazine, The Nib, Tablet Magazine, Symbolia, and The OC Weekly. She has illustrated books on topics that range from urban gardening to the history of the skirt. Her editorial clients include PBS, the New York Times, and BUST Magazine. Leela is represented by Wales Literary Agency.
Price: Sliding scale between $175-325
About sliding scale pricing: Please pay what you can. If you can afford to pay a little (or a lot) more, you can help us make fantastic SAW learning experiences accessible to students in need, and you’ll help our indie art school grow and thrive.
