So much news to share!

Intervention!

I'm in Rockville, Maryland for Intervention: "Your Online LIfe, In-Person" this weekend. Excited to experience the tabling, the fun events, and to be presenting. Friday night 8PM I'll be presenting the new and improved version of "Storytelling to Make Your Comic's UI Awesome".

Comics Are Great!

On Wednesday the 14th I was a guest on the Comics Are Great! show. Had a fun conversation with Jerzy Drozd and later in the episode Eli Niberger about how making comics is only the first challenge of creating them. We talked about the various options for publishing your comics online and tradeoffs to consider when choosing between options like a comic portal, wordpress, posterous, tumbler, and more.

Lean Into Art!

Last but not least - the lovely yet giant project that I've been working on with Jerzy Drozd is called Lean Into Art. It's an online art center with a focus on visual arts and storytelling. We have free content available via a new podcast we launched, our art/creative/teaching journal podcasts. We've also launched live workshops available in December... and the big kick-off event: 30 Classes in 30 Days!

Each day in November we'll feature a new live class, time shifted class, or lab/roundtable. Join us for "an ultimate kick in the learning"!

Kids Read Comics and Teens Read Comics are a shared, free event to explore and celebrate the awesomeness of comics. Kids, teens, teachers, librarians, and comic artists gather at KRC for two fun days of drawing games to meet the artists, hands-on workshops to make comics, visit the roaming artist alley and a bunch of other great events. 

I'm honored and excited to be part of the 2011 Kids Read Comics! I'll be providing two workshops in addition to participating in Artist Alley!

Saturday from 4:15 pm – 5:15 pm I'll be putting on the all ages workshop:
 
Turning Jokes into Comics: Laughing Yeti Monkey Spaghetti
People call comics “funny pages” for a good reason. Comics are a great way to tell jokes! In this interactive drawing session, cartoonist Rob Stenzinger will share a process for making jokes into one-, two- or three-panel comics. He’ll share tips, tell jokes, and draw joke-comics with you!
Chelsea District Library McKune Room – All Ages 

And on Sunday 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm I'll be putting on a workshop for fellow and soon to be webcomic artists and comic app creators:
 
Storytelling to Make Your Comic’s UI Awesome
How do you make your webcomic, comic app, or ebook user-friendly and engaging? In this interactive workshop, cartoonist and app developer Rob Stenzinger will demonstrate how you can combine user-centric design principles with storytelling experience to design and construct an interactive home for your digital comic.
Kids Spot – Professional Development

 
I'm excited to be part of this year's KRC, if you're in the Chelsea, MI area, I hope to see you there!