A hands-on memoir comix workshop inspired by educator/cartoonist Lynda Barry's theories of creative concentration as “”deep play," and writing as “”delivering an image." No drawing experience is needed—we all have more drawing experience than we admit. As Barry says, “People tell me I can’t draw and I say, so what have I been doing for thirty years?”
Miriam Libicki’s short comics have been published by The Nib, Abrams, Rutgers University Press, and the Journal of Jewish Identities. Her book of graphic essays, Toward a Hot Jew, received the 2017 Vine Award for Canadian Jewish Literature, and her painted essay “Who Gets Called an Unfit Mother”was nominated for a 2020 Best Short Story Eisner. Libicki was the 2017 Writer in Residence at the Vancouver Public Library, and teaches illustration and humanities at Emily Carr University. Her most recent collaboration, an anthology of Holocaust survivor graphic memoirs titled But I Live, received a 2022 Canadian Book award..


Occurrences
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Wednesday, February 26, 2025, 2:00 p.m.