Hands-on with Comics & Storytelling
with Ronald Wimberly
In conjunction with the exhibition The Artist’s Experience: From Brotherman to Batman, join us for a hands-on workshop led by Ronald Wimberly where participants are invited to explore the art of storytelling. For many cartoonists, story is central to their practice. In Japan, some cartoonists use a four-act structure called kishotenketsu to make simple, four panel comics called yonkoma. Even a four-story building with a poor foundation will topple easily. Likewise, a story with a poor foundation falls apart. We will explore building stories with kishotenketsu as a foundation and put it into practice, building our own four panel yonkoma comics.
No experience necessary. All materials provided.
IMAGE: Ronald Wimberly, RoShamBo, LAAB magazine 2018, Bomb Magazine 2021
About Ronald Wimberly
Ronald Wimberly is an American cartoonist. He has published several graphic novels, as well as shorter works for The New Yorker, DC/Vertigo, Nike, Marvel, Hill and Wang, and Dark Horse Comics. Wimberly was the 2016 Columbus Museum of Art comics resident and was a two-time resident cartoonist at Angoulême ‘s Maison des Auteurs. He is the recipient of the 2008 Glyph Comics Award and has been nominated for six Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards.
