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Portland, OR: Design And Bind Your 2026 Planner!

Price range: $70.00 through $110.00

Amateur book-binder and professional list-maker Audra McNamee will walk you through designing and binding a custom planner.

About the workshop:

It’s almost the beginning of a new year. You know what that means: it’s time to get organized! Amateur book-binder and professional list-maker Audra McNamee will walk you through designing and binding a custom planner. You’ll leave with the tools and know-how to bind your own books in the future.

This could be the year that you get on top of everything. Or this could be the year you give a thoughtful gift to a disorganized loved one. Or you could take this workshop with a loved one, both learn how to bind books, and each leave with a planner, a win-win-win-win scenario.

Cost of admission includes: all necessary book-binding supplies, a simple book press to take home, and free admission to the Northwest Museum of Cartoon Arts!

This workshop has 3 meetings:

  • A VIRTUAL meeting on Saturday, December 6th at 8:30-10am PT, where you’ll prepare the files for your custom planner.
  • Two IN-PERSON meetings on Saturday, December 13th and Sunday, December 14th, 8:30-10:30am at the Northwest Museum of Comic Art in Portland, Oregon (322 NW 8th Ave, Portland, OR 97209). With coffee and snacks, you’ll sew, trim, and glue your planner.

What you need: 

  • The ability to draw digitally, or scan artwork into a pdf (to prepare your custom planner design for print).
  • In the virtual meeting, Audra will discuss supplies you can optionally bring in to customize your planner further, like ribbon, paper, and cloth.

About the teacher: 

Crucial Comix editor Audra McNamee is a nonfiction cartoonist who started making custom planners in high school. Audra is currently working on comics about the neuroscience of psychedelics with neuroscientist Luca Mazzucato at the University of Oregon, and is in charge of operations for the University of Oregon Science and Comics Initiative. Audra has taught comics classes at Portland Community College.

If you have any questions about this workshop, reach out to editors@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

See the full Crucial class calendar here.

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