Writing Workshops

Cartoon Boot Camp with the New Yorker's Jason Adam Katzenstein and Sofia Warren (November 2024)

$175

1 Session

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Sunday, 2:00 pm EDT - 6:30 pm EDT November 3, 2024

The Center for Fiction

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Spend an afternoon with two professional New Yorker cartoonists who take you through their process, from brainstorm to finished illustration. See everything that goes into that final, polished cartoon. Learn how to ideate, make preparatory sketches, edit your drawing and caption, and give your peers helpful feedback. You will leave this course with 3-10 ideas for your own cartoons, at least one fully drawn original cartoon, and the tools to come up with your own original work long after you’ve left class.

Course Outline:

Hour 1: Intros, course goals, guide to terminology, initial journaling and sketching, idea-generating exercises, first original cartoon sketch
Hour 2: How to give feedback and criticism, first group workshop, learning to refine your sketch, learning to edit your caption, second original cartoon sketch
Hour 3: Second group workshop, “caption contest,” master’s copy exercise, third original cartoon sketch
Hour 4: Fine-tuning your sketch, fine-tuning your caption, third group workshop, fourth original cartoon sketch
Remaining half-hour: final group workshop, debrief

This course is held in person at The Center for Fiction.

Led by

Jason Adam Katzenstein

Jason Adam Katzenstein

Jason Adam Katzenstein is a cartoonist and comedy writer whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times and MAD magazine. He is the author and illustrator of the graphic memoir Everything Is an Emergency.
Sofia Warren

Sofia Warren

Sofia Warren has been a contributing cartoonist at the New Yorker since 2017. Her work has appeared in MoMA magazine, Catapult, L’Uomo Vogue, Narrative magazine, and the anthologies Send Help!, Very Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Women Cartoonists, and Notes from the Bathroom Line. Her debut book, Radical: My Year with a Socialist Senator, won the 2024 MoCCA Arts Festival Award of Excellence, was a finalist for the 2023 Excellence in Graphic Literature award by Pop Culture Classroom, and was named one of the best graphic novels of 2022 by Forbes and Comic Book Herald. Sofia was born in Rhode Island and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

About this series

Writing Workshops

We strive to make our classes the most inviting and rewarding available, offering an intimate environment to study with award-winning, world-class writers. Each class is specially designed by the instructor, so whether you’re a fledgling writer or an MFA graduate polishing your novel, you’ll find a perfect fit here.

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