Graphic Novel Workshop, Aug 4 – 8

With Paul Karasik

Date: Aug 4-8, 2025

Time: 9:30 AM–4:30 PM (ET)

Tuition: $1100

Ages: 18+

Venue: 
In Person/On-Campus in White River Junction, VT

Description:

Do you have the beginnings of a graphic novel but need some help getting it off the ground? Do you have a story, fiction or nonfiction, you’ve always wanted to tell using comics? Is your cartooning stuck in a rut, ready to move up to another level? Put everything else aside and only work on your comics for a week straight! Workshop instructor Paul Karasik is a cartoonist (The New YorkerCity of Glass), a comics scholar (I Shall Destroy All The Civilized PlanetsHow To Read Nancy), and a renowned teacher who really knows how to take good cartoonists and make them better. During the five-day workshop, students will participate in lectures, collaborative exercises, book discussion sessions, events, and group critiques, with the goal of producing the first draft of a longer comics project. This is the on-campus session of the Graphic Novel workshop. For the online session, look here.

Required Materials:

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

Additional information:

Optional 8-week online extension. See details below.

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 Eventbrite. Tuition is non-refundable after that date.

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Optional 8-week online extension:

During the optional eight-week online extension, students will develop and refine their work through online collaboration with faculty and peers, and complete comprehensive final drafts of their projects.

You will leave this class a stronger cartoonist than when you entered.

Cartooning Studio and the Graphic Novel Workshops can be taken for 2 undergraduate credits ($400). 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 have an official transcript sent to:

Summer WorkshopsThe Center for Cartoon Studies * PO Box 125 * White River Junction, VT 05001

Refund policy: Tuition is refundable up until 1 week prior to the first day of the workshop, minus a $50 fee and any fees assessed by Eventbrite. Tuition is non-refundable after that date.

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