Create Comics

With Daryl Seitchik and Filipa Estrela

Great for beginners

Date: July 27-31, 2026

Time: 10 AM–5 PM (ET)

Tuition: $1100

Ages: 16+

Venue: White River Junction, VT

Description:

Create Comics is for both beginner and intermediate students age 16 and over!

This five-day workshop packs in the essentials for producing comics is led by this incredible comics teaching team: Daryl Seitchik ’18 and Filipa Estrela ’21. Through lectures, exercises, and group projects, students learn about story structure, page composition, pacing, materials and techniques, character design, environmental drawing, and production. Students will collaborate on a comic anthology that they self-publish during the workshop.

 

Key Takeaways:

  • Learn the fundamentals of cartooning, composition, and storytelling

  • Practice with a variety of comics tools and  techniques

  • Create finished pages of comics for a self-published comics anthology with your peers

Required Materials:

Provided on-campus, but feel free to bring any supplies you like using as well.

Additional information:

For students age 16 and over.

Optional for-credit: Workshop can be taken for 2 undergraduate credits. Please check with the Program Chair or Registrar at your college or university before registering to see if the credits will be accepted. To enroll for-credit, students must select the additional for-credit tuition of $400 at registration and have an official transcript from their current institution sent to: Registrar The Center for Cartoon Studies PO Box 125 White River Junction, VT 05001

Refund policy: Tuition is refundable up until 3 weeks prior to the first day of the workshop, minus a $50 fee and any fees assessed by processor. Tuition is non-refundable after that date.

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