If you’re in the downtown Toronto area May 5 or 6, check out the New Narrative IV: Image and Spectacle Conference at the University of Toronto.  New Narrative is an interdisciplinary conference on comics being held just before the Toronto Comic Arts Festival (May 7-8).

I will be co-presenting a paper on using comics in the social work practices of narrative therapy and strength-based approaches on May 6 at 9:00. The conference location is the Jackman Humanities Building (JH), Room 100, 1st floor, 170 St George, University of Toronto.

New Narrative IV Poster

For abstracts and the conference schedule, visit:
http://www.andrewlesk.com/php/controller.php?switchState=new_narrative

Here is some recent work I did for SilenceBreakers.  One is a T-shirt design, the other an 80 x 100 cm (31.5 x 39 inch) roll up display. The T-shirts will be coming in within the next few weeks.

SilenceBreakers: www.silencebreakers.org

Youth course:

Course Description: A course that will teach students how to make comics and graphic novels. Students will learn how to script write, storyboard, pencil, ink, letter, colour and publish comics. Throughout the course, students will draw a short comic and will be encouraged to use their own experiences and artistic styles to develop their stories.

Camp Description: The summer Comics camp is a week long introductory course teaching teens how to write and draw comics, manga (Japanese comics) and graphic novels. Students will invent their own stories and learn how to write, storyboard, draw, ink and colour them. No previous writing or drawing skills are required to take this course.