Graphic Novel

Graphic Novel
Unleash your visual storytelling powers to create compelling characters, immersive worlds, and dynamic narratives that leap off the page and into readers' imaginations.
Explore the art of sequential storytelling and learn to craft narratives that seamlessly blend powerful visuals with engaging dialogue, creating stories that captivate readers through both word and image. Discover how graphic novels tackle complex themes and reach diverse audiences in ways that traditional text alone cannot achieve. Transform character design, world-building, panel composition, pacing, and visual metaphor into the tools that will immerse your audience in memorable graphic narratives.

What you'll do

Character Design Lab
Bring your characters to life through visual design, exploring how appearance, body language, and visual storytelling reveal personality, motivation, and inner conflict.

World-building Workshop
Create believable universes where your stories unfold. Design environments, cultures, and visual systems that support and enhance your narrative themes.

Sequential Art Foundation
Learn the unique grammar of comics—how panel layouts, page turns, and visual flow control pacing and emotion to guide readers through your story.

Visual Voice + Collaborative Critique
Develop your distinctive artistic style while participating in peer review sessions. Refine your graphic novel excerpt through editing and revision techniques used by professional creators.