Drawn to Life: Diary Comics Workshop

Diary Comics: Drawn to Life

Start a daily diary comic practice.

Diary comics is an autobiographical storytelling and pedagogical tool. Its immediacy creates identity/agency as it is drawn to action, connection, and being.

The workshop will begin with a presentation of the impact of a daily practice on the self and creating identity through action, connection, and being. Examples of diary comic artists will be shown.

Value - Wide ranging: A way to intertwine the arts with other departments diary comics, example - it is integrated into graphic medicine, "the intersection of the medium of comics and the discourse of healthcare" (Graphic Medicine Manifesto) and how medical schools are incorporating it within their studies and practices.

Goals/Activities

Goal - Simplify the process, 5 easy steps, demo.

Goal - Guided prompts to create diary comics, including varying forms to lead the group to chose their own for end goal.

Activity - Creating a main character

Activity - Don't rely on your drawing skills - emphasis that the process is the product, not how well it's drawn.

End goal - Set a specific personalized intention to create a daily (or almost) diary comic - small breakout rooms.