Writing Workshops

Graphic Novels and Comics with Varud Gupta

$395

6 Sessions

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Once a week Wednesdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT March 23 to April 27, 2022

Online via Zoom

How do we craft narratives that will pair well with visual storytelling? This introductory course will give participants a deep dive into creating graphic novels or comics, from developing story and characters through scripting and panel/layout design. The course is suitable for those that will eventually work with an illustrator or those that will be drawing the art themselves.

Capacity: 12

Led by

Varud Gupta

Varud Gupta

Varud Gupta is the award-winning author of the graphic novel Chhotu: A Tale of Love and Partition (Comic Con India “Best Writer”) and the travelogue Bhagwaan Ke Pakwaan: Food of the Gods (Gourmand award for “Peace”). His words also frequently appear in National Geographic and Mint Lounge.

His career as a writer began after quitting a short-lived career as a management consultant to travel and eat his way across the globe. When not writing, he is usually experimenting in the kitchen, collecting Instant Noodles, or playing Dungeons & Dragons. He received his bachelors in Finance from New York University and is a Visiting Professor at the Indian Institute of Art and Design.

By Varud Gupta

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Chhotu

By Varud Gupta & Ayushi Rastogi

Published by Penguin Random House

PURCHASE

The year is 1947. The British are slowly marking their departure from the country. And while Partition looms large over India, Chhotu, a student-cum-paranthe-cook in the dusty gullies of Chandni Chowk, has other things on his mind-like feeling the first flushes of love of his crush, Heer, the new girl at school.

When he finally decides to make a move, Chhotu soon finds the town’s aloo has suddenly gone missing, reluctantly embroiling himself into the world of corruption, crime and dons. As he struggles to understand what freedom truly means, Chhotu realizes one thing is for certain-that his world, and the world of those around him, is about to change forever.

Set against the backdrop of Partition and the horrors that followed, Chhotu is a coming-of-age story of an unlikely hero and a parable of a past that doesn’t feel too removed from the present.

About this series

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