Price range: $150.00 through $300.00
Learn to edit other peoples’ comics while also improving your own.
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 creator Shay Mirk and guest teacher Whit Taylor 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 September 23-October 21, on Wednesdays 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:
Lead teacher:
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 and Making Nonfiction Comics. They are the publisher of Crucial Comics.
Questions about this class?
Email Crucial’s publisher 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
