Animated with Ariel Schrag
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Doors, 1:30 PM, Performance 2 PM | FREE
The Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen Street West
Presented in association with the exhibition Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by Jewish Women
Graphic Details artist Ariel Schrag presents a multi-media reading of her comics. Like a live animated movie, the performance includes projected slides from Schrag’s comics, a musical soundtrack, and Schrag reading all the voices. She will perform work about being Jewish, being queer, and the life of a teenager in high school.
Ariel Schrag is a New York-based author, artist, and writer for the HBO series How To Make It In America. She also wrote for the hit Showtime series The L Word. For her High School Comic Chronicles, Schrag wrote autobiographical graphic novels the summer after each year of high school. The books cover crushes, band obsessions, new friendships, coming out as bi, coming out as gay, falling in love, her parents’ divorce, and the personal and social complications of writing about life while living it.
Presented together with Kulanu, Toronto's Jewish LGBTQ Social Group.
Ariel Schrag's books will be available for purchase at the program, courtesy of The Beguiling.
Creating Comics Step-By-Step with Ariel Schrag
Sunday, March 27, 2011
4:30 – 5:30 PM | $15 in advance, $25 at the door
The Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen Street West
Ariel Schrag’s hour-long masterclass begins with a lecture on the elements of comics storytelling including outlines, rough drafts, style, inking, background imagery and comics’ symbolic vocabulary. The class then leads into a workshop with students collaborating on jam comics and brainstorming their own individual projects.
Space is limited, advanced registration is strongly recommended. Download registration form here. Advance registration taken until Friday, March 25, 4 PM.
Ariel Schrag was born in Berkeley, California in 1979. She is the author of the autobiographical graphic novels Awkward, Definition, Potential, and Likewise, which chronicle her four years at Berkeley High School. The books are published by Touchstone/Simon & Schuster. Potential, which was nominated for an Eisner Award, is being developed into a major motion picture by Killer Films (Boys Don’t Cry, Far From Heaven, Mildred Pierce). Schrag wrote the screenplay adaptation. Schrag is currently a writer for the HBO series How To Make It In America. She was also a writer for Seasons Three and Four of the hit Showtime series The L Word. Schrag is the editor of and a contributor to Stuck in the Middle – 17 Comics from an Unpleasant Age, an anthology of comics about middle school, published by Viking. Stuck in the Middle was selected for New York Public Library’s Books for the Teen Age 2008. Schrag co-writes the online comic Ariel and Kevin Invade Everything with the comedian and writer Kevin Seccia. The comic recounts the adventures of two best friends in Los Angeles and is updated at www.invadeeverything.com
Schrag’s illustrations and comics have appeared in publications such as The San Francisco Chronicle, Time Out New York, The Village Voice, Juxtapoz, and Paper. Her original art has appeared in museums and galleries across the United States as well as in Austria, Spain, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Schrag does live performances of her comics across the country and abroad. The show includes projected slides of comic panels with Schrag reading all the voices and a musical soundtrack. In 2009 she toured the U.S. and Canada with the writers performance group Sister Spit.
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| Location: | Koffler Gallery Off-Site at the Gladstone Hotel |