Intro to Cartooning with Mads Horwath

Learn the fundamentals of cartooning from a professional perspective!

This workshop will focus on using observational skills and critical thinking to understand how to extrapolate humor from life, then put pen to paper!

Over the course of three hours, each student will get one on one time with Mads and learn how to create a standard for their work.

The workshop is not about being the perfect artist, but about the art of rhetoric in cartooning. After this workshop, students will have direct access to the instructor to get personal feedback on their work.

Madeline ‘Mads’ Horwath is a cartoonist and humorist who sold their first cartoon to The New Yorker in 2019, three months after they picked up the pen and has been trying to figure it out since. They use their dark sense of humor to make comics about social navigation and history. Since they’ve begun cartooning, they became a regular with The New Yorker, LA Times, and Chicago Reader before focusing their full attention to becoming a regular cartoonist for The Guardian in 2025. Having made a few cartoons go massively viral, they are able to balance out making personal work and freelance work for prestigious publications and institutions like The Comics Museum and The Wellcome Trust in England.

Instagram: @madelinehorwath

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