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Puppy Love: An Interactive Comics Reading

Dorsa Brevia 625 NW Everett Street #103, Portland, OR, United States

B.B. Andersson, Eileen Chavez, and Liz Yerby believe comics to be an intimate and tender medium. In Puppy Love: an interactive comics reading, they will present their works about naïveté, romance, and dogs with an emphasis on queer narratives. We invite you to come listen, help out with sound effects and dance moves, and participate in a small sing-along. B.B. Andersson:: instagram.com/blen_blandersson Eileen Chavez:: instagram.com/sloris227 liz yerby:: instagram.com/lizyerby Puppy Love will take place from 6:00pm-7:00pm on November 9th, at Dorsa Brevia, at NW 6th and Everett. This reading is part of Lit Crawl® Portland, 2018 find the full schedule here: https://litcrawlportland2018.sched.com/ Poster by Eileen Chavez!

Free

Diary Comics with Liz Yerby

Outlet 2500 Northeast Sandy Boulevard, Portland, OR, United States

In this two hour workshop attendants will make a four panel diary comic of their own, which will be assembled into a zine distributed to each attendee after the event! We’ll start off by looking at a wide variety of diary comics and then talk the basics of how to construct an effective comic. Then we will help each other explore mediums and ideas to create their own four panel masterpiece. At the end of the class we will scan our pieces, and a zine with the classes participants will be sent out a few days after the class is done! hopefully you’ll leave inspired and try your hand at creating daily diary comics for weeks or months a time. They’re like cool hand drawn…

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$25

Marking Making & Comics Appreciation

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

*IPRC Winter & Spring Creative Writing Workshops will take place on zoom, PST Register here Mark Making and Comics Appreciation is a four-week workshop meeting on Sunday nights in April, taught by Liz Yerby. Each week, Liz will give a short lecture on a comics artist or aspect of the medium of comics, and then participants will do drawing exercises together. Between sessions there will be optional homework, such as doing a few 15-minute drawing exercises throughout the week and reading a comic book. The purpose of this class is to approach drawing in a manner that is experimental and kind. Content covered in lectures includes the work of Tove Jansson, Aya by Marguerite Abouet, the work of David B, and more. Sundays, 7-8:30pm PST April 4th –…

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$35 – $75
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