Cartooning Adventures: Create Your Own Comics!

March 1 – May 17, 2025

Saturday, Ages 7-12 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

For the best value, avoid Eventbrite fees and purchase the full course!

Ready to turn your ideas into awesome cartoons? This fun, hands-on class is perfect for young artists who love to draw and imagine new worlds! Kids will design their own unique characters—action heroes, funny animals, manga, or fantasy figures—and bring them to life in colorful comic strips and single-panel cartoons.

Students will explore storytelling techniques by creating exciting settings, props, dialogue, and expressions for their characters. Throughout the course, they’ll develop their own mini comic book to take home, packed with original stories and artwork!

Learning Objectives:

• Create Amazing Characters: Design fun, expressive cartoon characters with unique personalities and styles.

• Drawing Basics: Learn easy drawing tricks like line work, exaggeration, and expressions for cartoons.

• Tell Awesome Stories: Plan stories with panels, backgrounds, dialogue, and cool action sequences.

• Bring Art to Life: Try inking and coloring techniques to make your comics pop with bold visuals.

• Unleash Your Imagination: Explore different cartooning styles while inventing creative stories and ideas!

Join us for a creative adventure where imagination has no limits—perfect for kids who love drawing, storytelling, and having fun!

Host or Publisher Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning (JCAL)