As part of the DIVE IN-Totally Teen Festival, learn how to create comics from concept to the printed page in this one day intensive workshop with comic artist and writer Maeve Clancy. In the first half of the day, participants will write a simple story, design characters, illustrate backgrounds and format the work into a comic. From these paperworkings, the afternoon will involve scanning, digital colouring, and the addition of text and speech bubbles at the Apple Mac Lab in Rua Red. Each participant leaves with a printout of their comic and a digital version which they can print, email or post on their Facebook and Bebo pages.

Maeve Clancy is a Dublin-Based artist and writer. She produces comics, illustration and animation in a variety of ways including cut paper, paint and pop-up. A selection of episodes from her weekly comic Flatmates was published as part of the Sequences series by the Verbal Arts Centre 2d Comic Festival IN 2010. She is currently working on Inheritance, a graphic novel set in Dublin and Berlin. Her recent travelogue A Hibernian in Hellas detailed her experiences in Greece in the summer of 2011.

Tags: art, Design, festival, graphics, Illustration, Workshop