Intro to making comics (All ages, no experience needed)ĭo you love to read comics and want to be a comic artist someday? This workshop is for you! You only need a paper and pencil and a story idea to start. This workshop can be presented in a single seminar or in multiple sessions with more in-depth lessons, in-class assignments, and critiques. You’ll learn a step-by-step process of selecting and refining your personal stories, planning out your graphic novel, and drawing the comics pages. Is your diary brimming with exciting stories? And do you love to read comics? Walter-Award-Honoree graphic novelist, Robin Ha will walk you through how you can transform your life into a graphic novel. Memoir graphic novel workshop (All ages, no experience needed) Robin is currently working on her third graphic novel inspired by the Korean folklore of Gumiho. She strives to make comics that are entertaining and also empower the readers to become more accepting of themselves and others. Robin has been an avid reader of comics since she was introduced to them by her mother as a young girl.

After graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design, she moved to New York City and worked in the fashion industry for several years before diving into comics. Robin grew up in Seoul, South Korea, and moved to the United States at age fourteen. Her comics and illustrations have appeared in various publications including The Washington Post, and LA Times, as well as in anthologies highlighting Asian American culture including RISE: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now, New Frontiers: The Many Worlds of George Takei, and Shattered: The Asian American Comics Anthology (Secret Identities).

She is the author and the illustrator of Almost American Girl, a 2020 Harvey Award nominee and 2021 Walter Award honoree memoir, and Cook Korean!: A Comic Book With Recipes, a New York Times bestselling cookbook graphic novel. Robin Ha (She/her) is a Korean American cartoonist based in Winchester, VA.

Cook korean by robin ha