The Yellow Squirrel Collective
welcome to TYC neighborhood house
Community space for connecting through storytelling.
THE HOUSE
The Yellow Squirrel Collective (YSC)
2006 was the year I ended up with an abandoned house on my hands. People will be shocked to hear this, I know. Even my family and close friends don't know it exists. The house came to me by accident.
COFFEE SHOP
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
STUDIO
How do you Want to be Seen?
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
PEOPLE
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