Community space for connecting through storytelling. Thoughts that make me laugh, and cry.

Graphic Novels: Context Matters

Why do stories matter?

Why graphic novels?

What matters to you?

Making comics: Where to start; how to keep going

Diary comics

Generating ideas

Contemporary graphic novels

Telling a Story: Change Matters

Stories are about change

Suddenly the World Looks Different

What does it mean to "change?"

Types of change: Sobriety, aging, AI, environmental change, physical change, death

How is change represented in graphic novels

Comics as self-help

How do you Want to be Seen?: Style Matters

Where does style come from?

How do you know when you have it?

What is your visual language?

Colour, font, linear/non-linear storytelling, panels/no panels, images, length, speech balloons

Getting seen: Community Matters

How to get noticed

How to keep going

Community resources

Publishing resources

Finishing "something"

2D and digital tools and resources (pens, markers, paints, ink, Procreate)

Evolving in comics