Friday 31 October

9 .30 am - 4.30 pm

Bookings

https://www.yarraranges.vic.gov.au/Explore-Yarra-Ranges/Events/Comic-Master-Class

Come and learn the art and craft of telling amazing comic/graphic novel stories from our world class artists.

Join cartoonist Mandy Ord for a deep dive into autobiographical visual storytelling. In 2020 her book ‘When One Person Dies The Whole World is Over’ published by Brow Books was longlisted for The Stella Prize and shortlisted for the Small Press Network Book of the Year.

David Blumenstein is a service designer, cartoonist and co-founder of Squishface Studio and is currently the deputy president of the Australian Cartoonists Association. He’s the perfect person to teach Storyboarding.

Find out all about the research project: Contemporary Australian Comics 1980-2020: A New History with the Australian Comics Folio Panel. Take a sneak peek here: https://www.foliocomics.com/

Fionn McCabe is a cartoonist, printmaker and educator living on Gadigal/Wangal land in Sydney, Australia. He is a comics educator in the Animation and Visual Communication schools at the University of Technology Sydney and is a co-founder and producer of Read To Me, a live visual storytelling event. His presentation: Harness the Power of Visual Association Like a Total Badass will teach you how abstract mark making and visual style can be used to reinforce themes and emotional content through visual association. Drawing is a record of physical movement and the way something is drawn can add a unique voice and deep emotional subtext to a narrative. In this workshop you will make a short comic that consciously harnesses this powerful and useful visual storytelling tool in a short, autobiographical comic.

Artist Frantz Kantor tells visual stories with his animated caricature drawings. He focuses on making visual language accessible and fun for everyone.

Bring yourself, your favourite art materials and a sense of creative adventure.

Ages: 18 +

Friday 31 October

1 - 2 pm

Free

Find out all about the research project: Contemporary Australian Comics 1980-2020: A New History with the Australian Comics Folio Panel.  https://www.foliocomics.com/

Saturday 1st November

12 - 1 pm

Free

Silent Army Archive is a growing collection of material related to, and generated by, the imprint known as Silent Army.

The collection resonates with independent comic art making as a community building experience, through collaborative publications, and social pursuits.

For more info, see- http://www.silentarmy.org/archive.html

This presentation will be a slideshow presentation with the chance for those present to view the database and ask questions.