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| Contact: | info@thecjm.org or call 415.655.7800 |
About the Program
Learn the ins and outs of making a graphic novel with one of the most successful practicioners the form.Ariel Schrag, who teaches a graphic novel writing workshop at the New School in New York, is the author of the graphic novel quartet Awkward, Definition, Potential, and Likewise, which chronicle her four years at Berkeley High.
In this lecture and workshop, Schrag will explore key elements of creating a graphic novel, including:
- Narrative options
- Style
- Depicting content through page layout
- Narrative pacing
- Comics vocabulary and material
- Discussion of major artists Art Speigelman, Daniel Clowes, Chris Ware, Marjane Satrapi
This program is co-presented by The Hub at the JCCSF.
Ariel Schrag is the author of the autobiographical graphic novels Awkward, Definition, Potential, and Likewise, which chronicle her four years at Berkeley High School. Potential, which was nominated for an Eisner Award, is currently being developed into a major motion picture. Schrag was a writer for seasons three and four of the hit Showtime series, The L Word. She is the editor of and a contributor to Stuck in the Middle - 17 Comics from an Unpleasant Age, an anthology of comics about middle school, published in May 2007 by Viking. Stuck in the Middle was selected for New York Public Library's Books for the Teen Age 2008. Schrag's illustrations and comics have appeared in publications such as The San Francisco Chronicle, Jane, Paper, and The Village Voice. Schrag graduated from Columbia University in 2003 with a degree in Literature. In 2004 she began teaching the course "Graphic Novel Workshop" in the writing department at The New School.
