#Get Your Work Ready for Print
Formatting your passion project can be a daunting task. You spend all that time planning, making, and editing your work. You have all the parts and you’re ready to make your dream a reality... But how do you take all that work and convert it into something tangible, someone physical that can be held, flipped through, and read?
Whether you hand-make every book or create your work digitally, you will get information, tutorials, and resources that will help you organize and format your project for print at our next free Writer's Lab workshop. Thony Aiuppy will teach you some of the tips, tricks, and formatting hacks he has learned over the last decade of making zines, comics, and graphic novels.
FREE WORKSHOP DURING DCAZ FEST
Join the Writer's Lab: Formatting Your Work for Print on Saturday, June 15, from 12 - 1 p.m. at the Main Library (Room 124) during the third annual Duval Comic and Zine Fest. A celebration of self-publishing and DIY media, the event features dozens of local zine and comic creators, a Lit Chat with graphic novelist Nate Powell and more!
Thony Aiuppy is a visual artist, cartoonist, zinester, and storyteller. For more than a decade, Thony has worked as an art educator with learners of all ages. This year, Thony was awarded the Wolfsburg Fellowship for Social Justice in Education and finished the Sequential Artist Workshop Yearlong Program in Gainesville, Florida.
He lives and works in Jacksonville, Florida.
THONY RECOMMENDS
Awesome books about making zines and comics:
- Whatcha Mean, What’s a Zine? The Art of Making Zines and Mini Comics by Esther Pearl Watson and Mark Todd
- Making Comics by Scott McCloud
- Making Comics by Lynda Barry
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Writer's Lab: Zine Making 101 with Lindsay Anderson
Get ready for DCAZ Fest! Local zinester and self-publisher, Lindsay Anderson, joins us to present a free introductory workshop on zine making on Saturday, June 8, at 1 p.m. at South Mandarin Library - one week before the big event! Learn how to let your natural passions rise and different ways to capture them using a zine medium. This workshop will focus on using non-digital methods and all resources will be provided.
Register for the free workshop!
Lindsay Anderson is a prolific zine maker and self-publisher based in Jacksonville, FL. Since 2013, Lindsay has developed a long-running zine project, she has helped to organize the annual Duval Comic and Zine Fest (DCAZ) and recently launched a new quarterly zine Mischief on the River. She's passionate about creating from existing resources and making space for others to develop and showcase their own works.
Ama-ZINE Creations (for ages 12-17)
Teens: Make your first mini-zine! Using the book, Whatcha Mean What's a Zine? by Mark Todd and Esther Pearl Watson (as well as several zines from local creators), you'll explore what a zine is and how to create one of your own! These hour-long programs include an icebreaker, games and discussion to kickstart your creative thinking.
Zine-making supplies provided. When you're done, you can donate your zine to the Library, trade it with a fellow zinester at the festival, or take it home.
Saturday, June 15, at 1-2 p.m. or 3-4 p.m. | Main Library (during DCAZ Fest)
Lit Chat Interview with Nate Powell
Nate Powell is a National Book Award-winning cartoonist who began self-publishing as an Arkansas teenager in 1992. His work includes the new graphic novel Fall Through and a new comics adaptation of James Loewen’s influential Lies My Teacher Told Me, as well as Save It For Later, civil rights icon John Lewis’s March trilogy, Come Again, Two Dead, and more. He has discussed his work at the UN, on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, PBS, and CNN.
Saturday, June 15, from 4-5 p.m. | Main Library (during DCAZ Fest)
Powell has received multiple Eisner and Ignatz awards, the Comic-Con International Inkpot Award, multiple ALA and YALSA distinctions, and is a two-time finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. A book signing will follow the interview with books available for purchase on-site.
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