Create and Sell Your Graphic Novel with Sean Fitzgibbon

This is a two-hour long workshop where students will learn how to create, launch and sell their graphic novels and graphic nonfiction books. Author Sean Fitzgibbon will discuss his journey creating, launching and selling his own graphic novels and nonfiction books through a series of presentations and demonstrations.

Course Description: This class is designed to give an overview of basic drawing and narrative art and how to launch your narrative project. Course Outline

• Introduction to Narrative Art
• What type of story do I want to tell?
• Time in Graphic Narratives
• The Power of Perspective and Basic Forms
• Begin studying and applying basic imagined one-point perspective.
• Drawing the Figure • Creating a Character
• Layout and Panel Configuration
• The Business of Narrative Art and Crowdfunding

Students will need to bring

• Pencils (4H and/or HB,)

• Micron pen sizes .01-.05

• Eraser

• Small pencil sharpener

• Ruler

• Sketchbook

Artist Sean Fitzgibbon explores unusual, real places and events through his work. He has an MFA in art and a passion for making art and visual storytelling. He is a 2021 Artists 360 recipient and a 2023 recipient of the Arkansas Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship Award for graphic nonfiction “What Follows Is True: Crescent Hotel. He has exhibited work throughout the US. He also illustrates books and recently completed writing and illustrating a documentary-style graphic nonfiction that explores the Crescent Hotel’s strange two years as the Baker Hospital, one of the darkest and most controversial legends in the town of Eureka Springs, Arkansas. seanpfitzgibbon@gmail.com