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Telling Trans Stories

Price range: $20.00 through $40.00

Let’s make trans comics!

About the workshop:

Let’s make trans comics! Artist Al Benbow will talk about some of their favorite trans comics and cartoonists, discuss trans character-building, and different ways of exploring trans identity and experiences in comics. At the end of the workshop, participants create a trans character. No specific skills required, newcomers to comics are totally welcome!
Details: 
This is a two-hour online workshop on Thursday, February 26, 2026 from 7-9pm EST (4-6pm PST). The class will be recorded and shared with all registered attendees.

About the teacher: 

Al Benbow is a graphic designer, illustrator, and comic artist. Their work, which usually centers around their identity as a nonbinary butch lesbian, has won multiple awards, and their comic “A Dyke Like Me” appeared in Issue 004 of Transmuted. Their graphic memoir about getting top surgery, Unbinding, will be published with Oni Press in 2027. Born and raised in the Midwest, they now live in Massachusetts with their partner, their cat, and their four-year-old goldfish.

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

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