Price range: $150.00 through $300.00
Ignatz Award-winning artist Sanika Phawde leads this in-depth, six-week class on creating compelling comics narratives.
About the class:
Ignatz Award-winning artist Sanika Phawde leads this in-depth class on creating compelling graphic narratives. Over the course of six sessions, Sanika will walk participants through building a big project from an idea to the pencilling stage, with a focus on finding the core of a story and pacing a comic to express its emotional beats.
While almost all classes at Crucial require no previous comics-making experience, this class is for people who have written and/or drawn at least a few comics. No specific publication experience is required, just come prepared to work on your craft and dig deep.
Date:
This is a six-week, online workshop on Thursdays, September 3rd – October 8th, 4pm-6pm PST/7-9pm EST. The class is capped at 25 participants. Everyone who signs up will receive a Zoom link via email and then a recording of the workshop afterwards.
What you need:
• Drawing supplies. You can draw on paper or digitally, whatever you prefer. You’re welcome to use whatever materials you have on hand, whether it’s colored pencils, watercolors, or ink pens.
About the teacher:
Sanika Phawde’s comic series “Wedding Juice and Other Melodramas” won the 2025 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Series. She is illustrator, educator, cartoonist and graphic reportage artist born and raised in India and based in Boston. Through autobiographical comics, visual essays, drawings on location, gouache paintings and illustrated interviews, their work strives to capture and communicate instances of emotional connection, queer immigrant culture, and conversations people have over meals. A graduate of Parsons School of Design, they currently teach illustration at MassArt and RISD.
To make them affordable, all of our classes and workshops are offered at a sliding scale cost.
Supporter - This payment level pitches in a little extra toward the teacher’s income and helps pay artists to create new comics at Crucial. Thanks for your support!
Standard - This is the basic rate for the class, which covers our costs.
Discount - We want people of all income levels in our classes, so choose this rate if you paying the standard rate is a stretch for you.
We set aside three spots in each class to be offered for free to people who would find it a hardship to pay the discount rate for any reason. These free spots are first-come, first-serve. If you would like to take a class for free, please send us a short email about yourself, what class you would like to take, and why. If a free spot is still available, we’ll send you a discount code to register for free! Email: editors@crucialcomix.com
