Making Comics for Research with Ebony Flowers

Is it possible to translate text-based literature reviews into comics? In short, yes! In this workshop, you will draw, write, and make comics to access a more picture-based approach to creating literature reviews. All participants will produce a take-home kit to further their budding making-comics-for-research practice. Lunch is also included.

Open to faculty and graduate students. Seating is limited and registration is required. No drawing experience necessary!

Sponsored by the McCausland Visiting Scholar Program in the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of South Carolina.

MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR: Ebony Flowers is a cartoonist, author, and educator. She holds a BA in Biological Anthropology from the University of Maryland-College Park and a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her fiction and creative non-fiction have appeared in the New Yorker, New York Times, and the Paris Review. She is the creator of the graphic novel, , which received the Ignatz Award for Outstanding Graphic Novel, the Believer Award for Fiction, the Eisner Award for Best Short Story, and a NAACP Image Award nomination in 2020. Ebony was a Mary I. Bunting Fellow for Fiction at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University in 2022-2023. Her next graphic novel, Baltimore Brownfield, will be released in 2025 by Drawn and Quarterly.

Host or Publisher USC African American Studies Department