Name: Squishface Kids Workshop
Start: 2024-07-16T14:00:00+10:00
End: 2024-07-16T15:00:00+10:00
Location: Smith's Alternative

$30 Family Ticket
Join David Blumenstein and Ben Hutchings for a family friendly school holidays comics workshop in celebration of Squishbook!
Squishface Studio is a Melbourne workspace for comics makers, and Squishbook is the first book collection by 13 of their favourite artists and writers! The result of a year of writing, drawing and workshopping with the grade 2s at Kensington Primary School, Squishbook is a silly but truthful guide to making your own comics and stories, essential for the kid or teen who won’t stop drawing.
At this event we'll try some activities from the book! Suitable for ages 8 & up. We ask that parents stay with their children for the event. Materials provided.
RUN SHEET
*intro, short reading from Squishbook
*warmup activity: draw a BAD self portrait
*draw faces expressing six main emotions: anger, disgust, joy, fear, sadness, surprise
*dice game where we roll to select a subject, object and action to make an illustration out of
BOOK BLURB
Squishface Studio is a workspace for comics makers, and Squishbook is the first "kids annual" collection by 13 of their favourite artists and writers! The result of a year of writing, drawing and workshops with the grade 2s at Kensington Primary School, Squishbook is a silly but truthful guide to making your own comics and stories, essential for the kid or teen who won’t stop drawing. For 8+.
BOOK INFO
Squishbook: Make comics with Squishface Studio and friends!
Edited by David Blumenstein | Paperback | RRP $29.95
Published by Nakedfella Productions & Squishface Studio
BIOS
David Blumenstein works as a service designer and visual communicator for organisations like Orygen Digital, IAG, RMIT Online, State Trustees and VCAT. His award-winning comics work includes the graphic essay Free Money, Please: How to Make Passive Income While the World Burns and the book #takedown: My Evening on a Pier with Pick-up Artists and Protesters (Pikitia Press). His comics have appeared in The Guardian, The Nib and Australian MAD. He is a founding member of Squishface Studio and currently deputy president of the Australian Cartoonists Association.
Ben Hutchings is one of the instigators of Melbourne’s Squishface Studio. He has been writing and drawing comics for over 20 years. His most recent works are the children’s graphic novel Mini Mel and Timid Tom, the highly awarded graphic novel The Invisible War, published by Scale Free Network and the new series of Avanti! language learning books for children.