By Marek Bennett
NFCF Weekend Programming
From science to politics, history to health care, cartooning has exploded as a legitimate medium for exploring non-fiction topics and the textures of lived experience.
Sunday - Free Workshops
Join us Sunday, November 17 for two free workshops at The Fletcher Free Library!
Pre-Registration Required!
In-Person Workshops
Confessional / Diary Comics
10:00am - 11:30am // Fletcher Room
Instructor: Josh Neufeld
Pre-Registration Required
Embarrassing details. Shameful secrets. Real moments. HONEST comics. This workshop focuses on the enduring tradition of diary comics and confessional comics. After a quick overview of notable examples of the form, cartoonist Josh Neufeld (A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge, American Splendor) will guide participants through the process of making their own personal comics, based on a choice of prompts. Everyone, regardless of their level of drawing craft, is welcome to join — one of the advantages of the form is that you don’t need to be a “professional” comics artist to make a great personal comic. In fact, often the more raw and un-polished the comic, the more honest and real it feels. Participants will emerge from the workshop with a finished one-page personal comic — and the hunger to make more in the future.
Limited to 25 Participants
Accuracy & Embellishment: Capturing Likeness and Identities in Nonfiction Comics
Instructor: Jess Ruliffson
WORKSHOP CANCELLED
In this brief workshop we'll touch on the unique challenges of creating visual nonfiction including: when do I change the appearance of characters to protect their identities, and how? Should I establish a likeness based on real people when developing nonfiction comics? How might I create authentic diversity and character continuity when representing large groups of people in a story? This workshop is a deep-dive into character design for the nonfiction comics practitioner working in graphic journalism, graphic medicine, veteran stories, and memoir, but all artists with any experience level are welcome!