Dalston Comic Club

Dalston Comic Club (Excluding Bank Holidays) We've built a collective through the regular meet up and after most sessions we carry on the banter in the local.

Dalston Comic (creators) Club, is a free monthly meetup for adults who make comics, or are interested in starting, hosted on the last Monday of every month at Dalston CLR James Library. The mission of the Dalston Comic (creators) Club, is to provide an environment that fosters creativity and an open community, where every session can be someone first, where attendees learn from each other, in orde

r to develop their sequential narrative skills. There’s been loads of amazing stuff happening at Dalston Comic (creators) Club over the last four years, but in the mix of just doing it, we haven’t been very good about shouting from the rooftops to let people know who we are or what we do, but we're working on it and hopefully this will help you a bit. Here are some of the things we have explored in our sessions so:

1: Four panel challenge - Introduction / Situation / Reaction / Conclusion.
2: Mise en scène - Object / Character / Environment / Era / Genre / Transition.
3: Audio translation - Explore an excerpt from a radio short story via sequential images.
4: Character development - Beginning to build a shared universe.
5: Micro publishing special - (part one) with Library Press.
6: Elevator pitch - Refining your idea down to a succinct mouthful.
7: Quality of line - Getting the best out of your drawing - Scanning & Photoshop.
8: Lettering 101 - Captions, Thought bubbles, Word balloons and sound effects.
9: Plotting the page - Panels layout & framing.
10: Full Colour - Drama, Mood & Emotion.
11: Indie Publishing Special - (part two) Small Press Day.
12: Four panel session #2 - Introduction / Situation / Action / Diversion / Reaction / Conclusion.
13: From thought to story - Organising / translating an idea into coherent plan.
14: Intro to Manga - Creating a Yonkoma.
15: Halloween / Horror - Character design.
16: Sound effects - Making the onomatopoeia sing.
17: Putting Word to Pictures - Comic from found Images.
18: Wordless / Silent (but not quite speechless) Comics - Challenging the narrative form.
19: Collage Comics - Different approaches to making comics using Collage.
20: Random Panels - Gameplay in comic development.
21: Body Language - Acting on the page through drawing.
22: Inking Technique - Tool & material exploration.
23: Romance comics - How the magic happens.
24: Metamorphosis - Fantasy character exploration.
25: Interpreting Violence - What to reveal, or not!
26: Comic-cubes - Challenging the physical form of comics.
27: Breaking Wally Wood’s 22 - Exploring how to build on the fundamentals.
28: Time in 'the gutter' #1 & 2 - Navigating the impact of time between panels.
29: Judging Covers (Art Direction & Production Values) - How to make your cover more appealing.
30: Post Comic completion - What next? In addition to all of the above:

We have also hosted three (one day special to coincide with) 24 Hour Comics Day, had a day out drawing for Hourly Comic Day, establishing collective meets outside of DC(c)C, Printed three anthology and tabled at numerous Comic, Zine & Small Press fairs.

30/04/2023

Let us help you find the write words Bang! out a badge Slam! down those lines Smash! out those comic creations Slide! those jenga blocks

24/02/2023

Hey guys, it's been a while! Here's a free workshop I thought you might be interested in. London Graphic Novel Network

16/03/2020

Monthly meets are on hiatus due to the Coronavirus. We'll be posting activities to help you all get through the lockdown. So stay safe & keep cartooning.

Here are photos from February's Session. The session was held by Gereth who had a huge bag of vegetables. The task was t...
25/02/2020

Here are photos from February's Session. The session was held by Gereth who had a huge bag of vegetables.

The task was to design characters that were inspired by these vegetables. Everyone made some awesome and intriguing work.

For the November month session, we created a comic based on the theme of 'Giving' This session was taught by Lizzie. Eve...
27/11/2019

For the November month session, we created a comic based on the theme of 'Giving' This session was taught by Lizzie.
Everyone created some very interesting work.
Here are the photos of what everyone did.

For the October month session, we learnt about exquisite corpse. This session was taught by Elizabeth. She explained var...
30/10/2019

For the October month session, we learnt about exquisite corpse. This session was taught by Elizabeth. She explained various examples of how exquisite corpse were created by different artists.

For the first ten minutes everyone had to draw part of a body of a exquisite corpse. The results were amazing.

For the remainder of the session, everyone was given cards which were created by a seven year old. These cards were introductions of eight different stories.

The task given was the same exquisite corpse exercise but with everyone drawing each panel. Once again the results were amazing.

Here are the photos of the results of what everyone done.

September's Session was about creating a splash page for a comic. The session was held by Pea. She explained that a spla...
01/10/2019

September's Session was about creating a splash page for a comic. The session was held by Pea. She explained that a splash page can convey what is likely to unfold in a plot of the comic. It can also leave you clues to what the comic is about. The task that was set was to create six splash pages and then discuss with the group which was the best. The chosen image was then drawn for the comic. The photos shown below are what the group have created.

September's Session was about creating a splash page for a comic. The session was held by Pea. She explained that a spla...
01/10/2019

September's Session was about creating a splash page for a comic. The session was held by Pea. She explained that a splash page can convey what is likely to unfold in a plot of the comic. It can also leave you clues to what the comic is about. The task that was set was to create six splash pages and then discuss with the group which was the best. The chosen image was then drawn for the comic. The photos shown below are what the group have created.

Just a reminder that there is no post bank holiday session tomorrow, the next one will be at the end of the month (30th)...
01/09/2019

Just a reminder that there is no post bank holiday session tomorrow, the next one will be at the end of the month (30th). But in the meantime you can join us along with loads Comic and Zine creators at next Sunday the 8th

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