The Comic Arts Workshop

Now offering a 30-day Free Trial on the information and support you need to make comics and graphic novels.

About the Workshop

A community of creators learning and working together through classes, co-working sessions, critiques/feedback and support. Members will have access to all educational content, publishing opportunities and special events.

We have live lessons weekly but the lessons are also recorded so you can proceed at your own pace and replay the lesson as often as you need to. Each lesson comes with an assignment which you do and can share for feedback at any of online meetings. There is no schedule you need to keep up with. Just a sequence of lessons/videos you can take whenever you want.

The lesson topics  are below:

THE IDEA
Idea generation
Story structures
Characters
The Outline 

WRITING
The script
Dialogue
Show don’t tell
Pacing 

STORY 
Intrigue/Suspense
Fore shadowing
Cutaways/Metaphors
 Names, names, names

COLLABORATING
Finding a partner
Money
Contracts
Tips

ART
Character design
Art styles
Sketchlines & inking
Digital vs traditional 

LAYOUT
Thumbnails & blocking
Camera positions
Character directions
Leading the eye

COLOR
Flat vs modeled
Using as focus L
ocal vs theme
Digital vs traditional 

THE COVER
Logo title
Cover design
Back matter
Getting attention

PRODUCTION
Lettering
Page order
Book format
Printing 

DISTRIBUTION
Online
Comic Cons
Comic Shops  
Kickstarter

THE BUSINESS
Online
Self Publishing
Anthologies
Publishers

LEGAL
Copyrights
Partnerships
Contracts
Ownership

MARKETING
Networking
Blog/newsletter
Social Media
Press/Awards 

POSITIONING
Your message
Motivation
The three mandatories
Career Tips

ATTITUDE 
Gratitude
Responsibility
Focus
Track record 

AND MORE...
  Co-working sessions
Special events
Exclusive opportunities
Camaraderie

Ramon Gil

Artist, Writer, Teacher. Ramon teaches art and design at SUNY Fashion Institute of Technology. He is the organizer of Diversity Comic Con. His credits include Black Stories Matter, The Whiz Kids from DARPA, The Hard Code, Truer Than Trousedale, Senturies, The Scifies Anthologies and most recently, Everybody Has a Hero - a middle school graphic novel from Benchmark Education.

Course Pricing

  • Monthly Plan
  • $39 USD

    per month

    A growing and supportive group of aspiring comic and graphic novel creators working and learning together.

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  • Support and feedback from pros and other aspiring creators
  • Weekly bite-sized lessons and exercises
  • Access to all pro interviews, blog articles and other content
  • Regular virtual bullpen (co-working) sessions
  • Exclusive invites to special events and opportunities
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  • Annual Plan
  • $350 USD

    per year

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  • Support and feedback from pros and other aspiring creators
  • Weekly bite-sized lessons and exercises
  • Access to all pro interviews, blog articles and other content
  • Regular virtual bullpen (co-working) sessions
  • Exclusive invites to special events and opportunities
  •