Price range: $0.00 through $10.00
A very chill, low-key monthly meetup to share comics about chronic illness.
About the meetup:
Do you make or read comics about chronic illness? Come hang out and share your work! This is a very chill, low-key monthly meetup. In 2026, the Chronic Illness Comics Club is a series of monthly workshops led by different artists on themes related to bodies, health, and disability. At the end of each workshop, participants will be invited to share their work.
If you register for this session, we’ll add you to an email list to be notified about each upcoming Chronic Illness Comic Club meetup in 2025. Everyone who registers will be invited to join our Discord, where we have a Chronic Illness Comics Club discussion channel. This is a series we’re offering for free, it’s totally 100% great to register at the $0 rate! But if you have money to spare and want to support our work, we made it possible to throw us $5-10.
Date:
February’s meetup is Sunday 2/8 at 11am-12pm PST (2pm-3pm EST)
February’s focus:
Self-Care Stretching and Movement for Artists led by Kriota Willberg. Living a creative and productive life centered around creative practice, and/or a small-scale work area can be liberating for your mind, but hard on your body. This workshop explores how hours of daily drawing can lead to repetitive stress injuries and eye strain. We will also explore hand/wrist alignment, posture, and physical self-care, and practice movement and stretching sequences to help increase physical comfort, loosen tight muscles, and reduce stress.
What you need:
• Be ready to engage in some physical stretches and light movement.
• Feel free to bring work to share! In the second half of this time, you can share what you made in response to the prompt, as well as other comics you’re working on.
About the February facilitator:
Kriota Willberg uses her experiences as a cartoonist, illustrator, massage therapist, and health science educator to promote science inspired and healthy pain-free creativity. As an artist and educator, Kriota teaches cartoonists about anatomy for artists, graphic medicine, and injury prevention. Her injury prevention book, Draw Stronger, published by Uncivilized Books. Check out her self-care column for the Comics Beat called “Get A Grip!” She has been artist in residence at the New York Academy of Medicine Library, NYU Grossman school of medicine, and The Center to Advance Palliative Care at Mt. Sinai Hospital in NYC. She teaches Art and Anatomy classes to medical students at NYU, and teaches at the Parsons School of Design.
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
