Join Understanding Through Comics: A Comics and Comics Studies Journal Club for our end-of-term social! We will be hosting a hands-on workshop with cartoonist Jeffrey Ellis. Learn about the art of comics and try your hand at making your own!
This event will take place on Monday, November 24 from 11:00AM to 2:00PM in the IKBLC Peña Room (new location!), or on Zoom. Supplies and pizza lunch will be provided for in-person attendees. Register here to secure your spot!
Bio:
A graduate of Capilano University’s IDEA program with a Bachelor of Design in Visual Communication, Jeff works in comics and Illustrations. Visual storytelling has been his passion since childhood. Through his involvement in the Cloudscape Comics Society (a non-profit he founded) he’s had more than fifteen years of experience in project management, print production, publishing, and administration. He’s returned to the role of president at Cloudscape in 2021. He has managed the production of more than fifteen different printed graphic novels, many of which contain his own work. He has also produced multiple books of his own work, most notably Teach English In Japan, which is based on his own experience teaching English in Japan for three years.