$150.00 – $300.00
Learn to edit other peoples’ comics while also improving your own.
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Want to learn how to edit comics? Two cartoonists who each have over a decade of comics-editing experience will guide you through this hands-on class that focuses on editing other peoples’ nonfiction work while also improving your own. Over five sessions, comics creators Whit Taylor and Sarah Shay Mirk will focus on both practical editing skills—like working with pitches and shepherding artists to publication—as well as lead reflective discussions on personal topics such as dealing with conflict and communicating well with collaborators.
Class dates:
This class runs for five weeks, from November 12 – December 3rd, on Tuesdays from 4pm-5:30pmPST/7pm-8:30pm EST. This class meets online, via Zoom, and is capped at 25 participants. The class will be recorded and emailed to all participants weekly, if you need to miss a session.
What you need:
• We will be doing some writing and small amounts of low-stakes drawing in this class. No editing experience necessary.
About the teacher:
Whit Taylor is an Ignatz Award-winning cartoonist, writer, editor, and public health educator from New Jersey. She has worked as a contributing editor at The Nib, freelance editor for First Second and Street Noise Books, and co-edited the reproductive justice collection Comics for Choice.
Sarah Shay Mirk is a comics journalist, teacher, and zine-maker. Their editing experience includes four years as the online editor of feminist magazine Bitch, seven years as a contributing editor for The Nib, and editing several comics collections including the graphic narrative Guantanamo Voices: True Stories from the World’s Most Infamous Prison. They are the publisher of Crucial Comics.
Questions about this class?
Email Crucial’s publisher at smirk@crucialcomix.com
