Poetry Comics: Haiku Autumn, 2025
Poetry Comics: Haiku Autumn, 2025
This is a poetry comics class for fall, focusing on short haiku comic strips. For four Sunday sessions, we'll meet online and look at notable examples of haiku poems, and then learn a comics-making technique. A prompt will be given to help you write a haiku during class. You’ll be given an assignment to draw a short haiku comic which we will begin to work on during class, and which you can continue to work on outside of class. Students will be able to share their work privately online, if they wish, to receive instructor and classmate feedback. All skill levels welcome.
Sundays at 1pm (Seattle time), Oct 26, Nov 2, 9, and 16.
Art supplies needed:
Pencils, paper, a ruler, an eraser, inking pens, (or a digital drawing platform).
Art supplies suggested:
There will be some watercolor instruction in this class, so you may want to have watercolor paints, paper, and brushes, but these are optional.
Technology needed:
A computer or device that can work with Zoom. Class meetings will happen on Zoom. Recordings of the sessions will be made available afterward.
A scanner or camera would be useful for sharing work online.
About the instructor:
Seattle artist David Lasky co-authored the graphic novel "Carter Family: Don’t Forget This Song," which won comics’ Eisner Award in 2013. While he's not an authority on poetry, he has been writing it in his spare time for over 20 years. David has also been a graphic novel instructor for roughly 18 years, teaching to all age and skill levels.
Meetings:
Sundays for 4 weeks, starting October 26th, ending on November 16th.
Meeting time: 1pm Pacific (Seattle-local). Each session lasts 90 minutes.