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<\/a>\u201cOur main guest speaker is Michael Nicoll [Yahgulanaas], who is a Haida Gwaii artist. He popularized Haida manga, so it\u2019s a really great juxtaposition of this Haida iconography with this manga style of storytelling. He\u2019s going to be joining us remotely; his talk goes from about 5:00 to 5:30 with then time for questions. The rest of the time in that room is going to be student-led panels,\u201d says Shuttleworth. \u201cWe\u2019ve been workshopping some panel ideas and had a really successful one about horror comics as well as the beginning-to-end process of building a comic, so how they plan their comics, how they differentiate themselves from each other, and then how they end up with that final work and what steps it takes to get there. So there\u2019s going to be a lot of really great stuff happening at this event.\u201d<\/p>\n
Student Eddy Ritter says that he\u2019ll be at the event to share his projects and art that he\u2019s been making throughout the program.<\/p>\n
\u201cI might be there to participate in some of the panels that we\u2019ll be doing,\u201d he says. \u201cWe\u2019ll be talking about different themes for comics and how they may vary in different locations, that\u2019s one that we\u2019ve being thinking about, not sure if we\u2019ll be doing it yet, but I\u2019ll be there to share everything and anything that people are wondering about the program and comics.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ritter says that he has a lot of new work to display at the event.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve got a few little short stories that I\u2019ve been working on as well as single page little slice-of-life comics, just my experience with random things in the world. It\u2019s all just lighthearted, fun stuff that I\u2019m excited to share.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ritter says that his work is heavily influenced by the classic role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons<\/i> as well as numerous podcasts and books.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll of my influence just comes from different things that I enjoy,\u201d says Ritter. \u201cThere are a few podcasts that I listen to, like The Adventure Zone<\/i>, it\u2019s a D&D<\/i>-based podcast. Dungeons & Dragons<\/i> in general I find is a pretty fun influence. It gives me ideas for stories and how to really make character interactions feel realistic, because it\u2019s something you already acted out with other people. Various books I\u2019ve read over the years are big influences to me, both regular novels and graphic novels, as well.\u201d<\/p>\n Student Tori Schroeder will be helping out with some of the panels as well as showcasing her own work.<\/p>\n \u201cEach of us is going to have a table where we can display and have our art for sale,\u201d says Schroeder. \u201cThat\u2019s anything from prints and stickers and smaller things to our fully realized and printed comic, which is going to be really exciting. I think that I will also be participating in a panel or two, or maybe more, having an open discussion about a topic or a subject that we have touched on throughout the program. I\u2019m really excited to see what that day will bring.\u201d<\/p>\n Schroeder says her art has \u201ckind of a cartoony style,\u201d and she shares an influence with Ritter.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m a fan of D&D<\/i>, so oftentimes my drawings veer into fantasy or fantastical characters or people like that on wild adventures.\u201d<\/p>\n Schroeder says that she is heavily inspired by lots of different kinds of art.<\/p>\n \u201cI grew up with a ton of different cartoons and animated shows that really inspired me,\u201d she says. \u201cThings like Avatar: The Last Airbender<\/i>. I just loved the colours and all the world building that went into that. I was also a big fan of Star Wars: The Clone Wars<\/i> because I just love that animation style, and I loved the vibrancy of the colours and just the really unique character design. Beyond that, more recent things like Into the Spider-Verse<\/i>, just all that colour, it really was like if a comic came to life in a movie. I\u2019m inspired by a lot of those kinds of things.\u201d<\/p>\n Shuttleworth says that what she wants the festival\u2019s audience to take away from the event is acknowledgement for her students\u2019 art.<\/p>\n \u201cI want them to meet these 13 super-talented students, first and foremost,\u201d she says. \u201cBecause this program is only a year long, and I\u2019ve watched them really, really grow in their own art styles as well as in their ability to tell stories, so I\u2019m just really excited about them getting this chance to feature their artwork and get to meet people in the public and show off what they\u2019ve accomplished in this course, because it really is huge, what they\u2019ve done.\u201d<\/p>\n Students in Camosun College\u2019s Comics and Graphic Novels program are getting ready to put on the annual Camosun Comic Art Festival. Comics and Graphic Novels instructor Erin Shuttleworth says that the festival\u2014which is happening from 4 to 9 pm on Wednesday, April 20, on the third floor of the Young Building at Lansdowne campus\u2014will feature […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22479,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,267],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus","category-april-6-2022"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22481,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22477\/revisions\/22481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/a>