Comics Journalism Workshop
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Comics Journalism Workshop
Dates: Monday, July 15- Friday, July 19 (participants should attend all 5 days)
Times: 10:30am - 12:30pm (option to stay until 1:30pm for individual coaching)
Description: Students will learn the basics of comics journalism and use the comics medium to convey news and information.
The week's activities will include:
-Identifying local, state, regional, national or international news stories to cover
-Interviewing sources and gathering other information— using the Southborough Library —related to their custom news stories
-Developing an angle for the news story and writing a prose version of the news story
-Developing a thumbnail/rough draft of their comics journalism piece
-Researching and producing finished artwork of their comics journalism pieces
Support for this program was provided by the Southborough Community Fund, a fund of the Foundation for MetroWest.