Price range: $20.00 through $40.00
Let’s get magical! This workshop delves into using magical realism to enhance autobiographical comics.
About the workshop:
Sometimes the emotional truth of a story or experience can feel too monumental to communicate through realism. In this workshop, artist Sanika Phawde will have participants look at the work of Tillie Walden, Liana Finck, Anand Shenoy, Fumio Obata and Kruttika Susarla, to see how these artists use elements of magical realism and surrealism in their stories. We will see how these tools influence our experience of space and time in comics, and how we can learn from them and make magical realism comics of our own.
Date:
This is a 2-hour online workshop on Thursday, June 4th from 4pm-6pm PST / 7pm-9pm EST. The workshop is capped at 25 participants. Everyone who signs up will receive a Zoom link via email and then a recording of the workshop afterwards.
What you need:
• Drawing supplies. You can draw on paper or digitally, whatever you prefer. You’re welcome to use whatever materials you have on hand, whether it’s colored pencils, watercolors, or ink pens.
About the teacher:
Sanika Phwade’s comic series “Wedding Juice and Other Melodramas” won the 2025 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Series. She is illustrator, educator, cartoonist and graphic reportage artist born and raised in India and based in Boston. Through autobiographical comics, visual essays, drawings on location, gouache paintings and illustrated interviews, their work strives to capture and communicate instances of emotional connection, queer immigrant culture, and conversations people have over meals. A graduate of Parsons School of Design, they currently teach illustration at MassArt and RISD.
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
