The Boston Comics Roundtable is a group comic creators, scholars, and educators dedicated to furthering and promoting the medium of comics. This summer, the BCR is offering a variety of classes and workshops for beginners, experienced comics makers, and anyone curious about this versatile art form.  Participants can learn the basic skills needed to make their own comics, hone and practice existing skills, or explore the role comics play in modern culture. Classes are held at The Boston Comics Workspace in the Taza Chocolate building in Somerville and start this week.

Classes include:

Comics, Movies, and Storytelling with Heide Solbrig.

There are comics based on movies, and movies based on comics. What storytelling techniques are unique to each art form, and what techniques do they share. This 6-week course is great for artists, film-makers, comics fans, and film buffs. Starts July 12.

Introduction to Comics: Sequential and Graphic Storytelling with Heide Solbrig.

Artist, writer, and comics scholar Heide Solbrig gives students the skills, techniques, and insights they will need to start making their own comics and graphic stories. Starts July 7

Writing and Story Structure for Comics and Graphic Novels with Josh Dahl.

This not an art class. This class is for those who want to learn about the planning, plotting, and scripting that go on before the artist ever touches pen to paper. Starts July 13.

One-Shot Workshops include:

Using Your Head to Draw the Figure with Franklin Einspruch.

Like a life-drawing class where the model is in your imagination. Learn to employ proportion, geometry, and anatomy to make imaginative figures that work. July 9th.

Art Framing with E.J.Barnes

Great art deserves a great frame. Artist E.J. Barnes leads this session on how to make the ideal frame for your art. She will includes techniques specific to comic book art. July 30th

Plotting a Story with J.L. Bell

Writer and editor J.L. Bell will guide workshop participants from raw ideas and concepts to a fully plotted story. As a bonus, he will point out common pit-falls and roadblocks to be avoided on the way. August 6th.

All classes and workshops are held at the Boston Comics Workspace, Studio A306 561 Windsor Street, Somerville.

Visit bostoncomics.com/education/ or contact hydasolbrig@gmail.com for more information.