Non-Fiction Comic Festival Youth Programs

Sat, Nov 14, 10:00 AM at Main Library. Free.

Join us for a full day of drawing workshops for kids with cartoonists from all over the country in the Youth Area... Make an Autobiographical Comic! 11:30am - 12:15pm Instructor: Jonathan Todd Jonathan Todd, the author/illustrator of the kids graphic novel Timid (Scholastic/Graphix), will present a step-by-step way that you can make a comic about something that really happened to you. Planning steps will include writing a short prose version of a true story. If there is time, we ll share our comics with the other cartoonists who participate in this workshop. Draw Anything and Everything! 12:30pm - 1:15pm Instructor: James Kochalka Learn how to draw anything and everything with Vermont s first Cartoonist Laureate, James Kochalka. Draw with the Eisner winning creator of Johnny Boo and Gentle Observation (in Seven Days each week). Let's Time Travel with Non-Fiction Comics! 1:30pm - 2:15pm Instructor: Alexandra Gallant-Lee Let's Time Travel with Non-Fiction Comics, how you can use comics to tell stories that span a second, a minute, a year or a lifetime through the power of storytelling. We'll look at different comics that travel through time over the course of a panel, a page and an e

More this week: kids’ events in Burlington. Times are shown in the venue’s own time zone; check the library for changes on the day.