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Elizabeth Haidle hails from Portland, Oregon, where she is the art & editorial director at Illustoria Magazine, published by McSweeney’s. She leads workshops about personal art practices and nonfiction comics—from history to poetry to memoir. Her most recent book, "Drawing Is…," captures the importance of the inner narrative: the story that we tell ourselves about drawing while we are drawing.
Anything can be a comic if you are willing to put it into panels. This includes contemplative comics, poetry comics, memoir comics, wordless comics. The paneled format can feel like the marathon of the drawn world—so many decisions to make, details to juggle—wrangling narration, speech bubbles and characters into tiny repetitive squares or shapes. In this workshop, attendees will be guided through different format choices on the spot, making quick decisions and trying several iterations to discover which they like best. Being able to see the choices others are making, including the borrowing and swapping of ideas, is also an important part of the experience.