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:
March’s meetup is Monday 3/9 at 4pm-5:15pm PST (7pm-8:15pm EST)
About the March facilitator:
Shay Mirk (they/she) is a graphic journalist, editor, and teacher. For six years, Shay was a contributing editor at comics publication The Nib, where projects she worked on won both Eisner and Ignatz awards. They are the author of several books, including Guantanamo Voices, an illustrated oral history of Guantanamo Bay prison. Her book on the craft of making nonfiction comics, Making Nonfiction Comics: A Field Guide to Graphic Narrative (co-written with Eleri Harris), debuted from Abrams ComicsArts in 2025. In 2024, Shay was the Applied Cartooning Fellow at the Center for Cartoon Studies in Vermont. She is white, nonbinary, and queer. You can follow Shay on Instagram @mirkdrop and email them at smirk@crucialcomix.com.
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
