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The author of Artificial: A Love Story and Flying Couch will talk about her approach to making innovative graphic memoirs on Thursday, August 27th, from 5-6pm PST/8-9pm EST.
The author of Artificial: A Love Story and Flying Couch will talk about her approach to making innovative graphic memoirs. In this one-hour conversation with Crucial publisher Shay Mirk, she’ll discuss her craft and what she’s learned as a cartoonist who works on both single-panel gag comics for The New Yorker and in-depth graphic memoirs.
Date: Thursday, August 27th, 5-6pm PST/8-9pm EST
About Amy Kurzweil
Amy Kurzweil is a New Yorker cartoonist and the author of two award winning graphic memoirs about family relationships, archives, and memory: Flying Couch, her debut from 2016 and Artificial: A Love Story, which was named a best book of 2023 by The New Yorker, NPR and Kirkus. Her 2024 graphic essay with the LA Times won the Overseas Press Club’s “Best Cartoon Award” and her comics with The Believer Magazine were nominated for a Reuben Award and an Ignatz Award. Her next project is Graphic Memory, a craft and theory book about the art of graphic memoir, forthcoming with Bloomsbury. Amy teaches widely. Find her on Patreon to sign up for her monthly cartooning class and join her digital community of creative students from all over the world.
About the Artist Talk series:
In 2026, Crucial Comix is hosting a series of talks by cartoonists about their art-making process. These one-hour sessions are open to the public and all sliding scale. Artists previously featured in the series were Lee Lai, Thi Bui, Mattie Lubchansky, and Nate Powell.
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
