Price range: $0.00 through $10.00
The author of Simplicity and Boys Weekend and co-host of the popular No Gods, No Mayors podcast will talk about her comics-making process on Wednesday, March 25 at 5pm PST/8pm EST.
In this one-hour talk, cartoonist Mattie Lubchansky will talk about her work creating trans-centric sci-fi stories and punchy political comics. After the conversation, the audience will be invited to ask Mattie their own questions.
Mattie Lubchansky is a best-selling cartoonist and illustrator living in beautiful Queens, NY. She is the former Associate Editor of Ignatz and Eisner award-winning magazine and website The Nib. Mattie is the author of the national bestseller Simplicity (Pantheon, 2025), Boys Weekend (Pantheon, 2023), The Antifa Super-Soldier Cookbook (Silver Sprocket, 2021), the co-author of Dad Magazine (Quirk, 2016), author of Skeleton Party (self-published, 2016), co-editor and contributor to The Nib’s anthology Be Gay Do Comics (IDW, 2020), contributor to the Lambda Literary Award-winning anthology 2 Trans 2 Furious: An Extremely Serious Journal of Transgender Street Racing Studies (Girl Dad Press, 2023), and co-editor and contributor to the Eisner-nominated anthology Flash Forward: An Illustrated Guide to Possible (and Not So Possible) Tomorrows (Abrams, 2021). She was the Herblock Prize finalist in 2020.
Date:
This is an online talk that lasts for an hour on Wednesday, March 25, from 5-6pm PST/8-9pm EST. It is free to attend but donations to Crucial are welcome to support our work. RSVP for the free Zoom link. Everyone who registers will receive a recording of the talk and be invited to join our Discord, where people can share their own comics and connect with community.
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.
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
