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Queer Monster Lab

Price range: $20.00 through $40.00

Draw new queer monsters and villains in this two-hour workshop taught by Berlin-based artist HX.

About the workshop:

From Jafar to Scar, Frank-N-Further to Ursula, Poison Ivy to Mystique, our heroes, anti-heroes, and beloved pop culture queer villains (AKA our queer childhood crushes) are finally getting company. In this two-hour workshop led by Berlin-based artist Henna Räsänen, participants channel, create, and compose modern and traditional queer monster characters. Participants will imagine their queer monsters on the page and in the wild through different fun drawing exercises and discussion. Happy pride month, you monsters! 
Details: 

This two-hour workshop taught online from Berlin will be Thursday, June 11th at 9am PST/12pm EST/6pm CET. The workshop will be recorded and shared with everyone who registers.

About the teacher: 

HX aka Henna Räsänen is a Finnish, Berlin-based non-binary and queer comic artist whose work explores social norms and the looming climate catastrophe through offbeat, prickly humor. Their comics depict subcultures and queer communities in a rapidly eroding world, while addressing contemporary political climates with both tactics and optimism. HX has published numerous art zines, prints and books and exhibited in spaces like Athens Museum of Queer Arts, Fumetto Festival and Helsinki Comic Festival. They’ve been a member of multiple collectives and art groups such as Altes Finanzamt (2016-2020) and Comic Invasion Berlin Festival (2020-2024) in many different roles, from curating the International Focus to organizing film screenings. As a part of their practice they teach comic workshops that center on norm critical practices, the character of (urban) spaces and the attempt of finding hope in the middle of the current climate catastrophe.

Questions about this workshop?

Email Crucial Comix publisher Shay 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

See the full Crucial class calendar here.

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