Comics And Graphic Novels Studio at OCADU

 

I’m teaching Comics And Graphic Novels Studio this fall at OCADU in Toronto. It’s a six week course beginning on Saturday October 21^st- click the link for more info!

https://continuingstudies.ocadu.ca/search/publicCourseSearchDetails.do?method=load&courseId=18221&selectedProgramAreaId=17820&selectedProgramStreamId=17830

In this interdisciplinary workshop series for writers, artists, and designers, students will experiment with the comic medium as they explore the interplay between image and text, form and content. Drawing cues from historical and contemporary examples of textual/graphic work, students will conceptualize comic projects in various forms, constructing compelling narratives through dialogue and visual representations. By the end of the series students should have produced short and longer form comics or graphic works.

LEARNING OUTCOMES
Upon completion of this course, students will have:

• Become familiar with the steps/process involved in creating a comic/graphic novel
• Practiced scripting for sequential art
• Received tips for composition, layout and paneling
• Completed the process of creating a comic

 

Cory Silverberg and Fiona Smyth at Graphic Medicine Conference 2023 in Toronto

 

Cory and I are excited to be giving one of the keynote talks at this year's Graphic Medicine Conference in Toronto:

https://www.graphicmedicine.org/keynote-announcement-cory-silverberg-fiona-smyth/

“Sex Is a Funny Word: The Power of Comics to Hold Bodies, Intimacy, Trauma, and Joy” keynote presentation by Cory Silverberg & Fiona Smyth, Friday July 14, 9am In this interactive keynote address and conversation, cartoonist/educator Fiona Smyth and sex educator and author Cory Silverberg will talk about their 10+ year collaboration on their award winning series of books about sex and gender for young people.Myhal Centre at UofT, 55 St George Street north of College Street

The conference has a sliding scale for attending and most events are hybrid streamed online and inperson:  https://www.graphicmedicine.org/2023-toronto-conference/

YOU KNOW, SEX Arriving April 12!

 Seven years in the making!

For preordering: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/671927/you-know-sex-by-cory-silverberg/9781644210802

 ABOUT YOU KNOW, SEX

A completely new approach to learning about puberty, sex, and gender for kids 10+. Here is the much-anticipated third book in the trilogy that started with the award-winning What Makes a Baby and Sex Is a Funny Word

In a bright graphic format featuring four dynamic middle schoolers, You Know, Sex grounds sex education in social justice, covering not only the big three of puberty—hormones, reproduction, and development—but also power, pleasure, and how to be a decent human being. 
 
Centering young people’s experiences of pressures and joy, risk and reward, and confusion and discovery, there are chapters on body autonomy, disclosure, stigma, harassment, pornography, trauma, masturbation, consent, boundaries and safety in our media-saturated world, puberty and reproduction that includes trans, non-binary, and intersex bodies and experience, and more. 
 
Racially and ethnically diverse, inclusive of cross-disability experience, this is a book for every kind of young person and every kind of family.

You Know, Sex is the first thoroughly modern sex ed book for every body navigating puberty and adolesence, essential for kids, everyone who knows a kid, and anyone who has ever been a kid.

Shira Spector's RED ROCK BABY CANDY Book Launch at The Beguiling!

 

 

 

TONIGHT!!!

Come join me and @shiraspec

This Thursday 3/18: The official Toronto book launch for Shira Spector's debut graphic memoir, Red Rock Baby Candy! With special guest Fiona Smyth and hosted on Instagram Live by The Beguiling Books & Art http://ow.ly/Z5RM50DZpb1

Fiona Smyth, Michael Comeau, and Michael Deforge Koyama Press signing at Librairie Drawn & Quarterly July 7th

Join Toronto based cartoonists Fiona Smyth, Michael Comeau and Michael DeForge as they present their latest releases from Koyama Press: Somnambulance, Winter’s Cosmos and A Western World.

Somnambulance By Fiona Smyth
A comics collection by Canadian cartoonist, painter, and illustrator Fiona Smyth. Over thirty years of comics that feature Fiona’s world of sexy ladies, precocious girls, and vindictive goddesses is revealed in all its feminist glory. This is recommended reading for sleepwalkers on a female planet.

FIONA SMYTH is a Toronto based painter, educator, illustrator, and cartoonist. Her feminist artwork has exhibited internationally. Fiona collaborated with writer and sex educator Cory Silverberg on the kids’ series What Makes A Baby in 2013, and Sex Is A Funny Word in 2015, published by Seven Stories Press.

Winter’s Cosmos By Michael Comeau
In the tradition of 2001: A Space Odyssey and Silent Running, this genre-bending photo and comics hybrid presents the final years of a mission to seed a planet in a distant constellation and the failings of both human and artificial psyches in the face of the vastness of space.

MICHAEL COMEAU works on the wall, the print sheet and the page. Creating window displays and paste-up murals utilizing generations of street posters he created for parties, gigs, etc. His comic trilogy Hellberta won the Doug Wright award for experimental comics in 2012.

A Western World By Michael DeForge
Short, succinct and, more often than not, strange stories have always been a central part of the Michael DeForge’s oeuvre. In a career that’s volume outweighs its years, DeForge’s most powerful work has often been his most pithy.

MICHAEL DEFORGE currently lives and works in Toronto as a cartoonist, commercial illustrator and designer for the hit Cartoon Network program Adventure Time. His one-person anthology series Lose has received great critical and commercial success, having been nominated for every major comics award including the Ignatz and Eisner Awards.

 

http://koyamapress.com/

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