Comic Book Making Workshops Offered by Award-Winning Author

DEDHAM, MA - Jonathan Todd, author/illustrator of TIMID (Scholastic) and 2024 New England Book Award winner, will be teaching comic book making at TLC Studios & Media Lab in Dedham Square as part of its ongoing creativity workshops for teachers and students. On Tuesday, January 14th at 3:30pm a group of creative learners will learn how to create Informational Comics. Comics are great tools to communicate educational and instructional information, including science, history and how to accomplish certain tasks—such as how to cook a favorite dish. In this workshop, Jonathan will have students practice breaking up information and translating it into a fun, comics form, whether it’s a comic about Australian animals or the invention of the telephone. Registration is required.

Informational Comics with Jonathan Todd

• 3:30 PM 5:00 PM
• TLC Studios (map)

When: Tuesday, Jan 14, 3:30-5
Audience: Ages 7-17 and Educators
More information on other creativity workshops, click here.

Jonathan Todd is a cofounder of the Boston Kids Comics Fest and former second-grade teacher. He was a Jacqueline Woodson Fellow in the Solstice MFA in Creative Writing program at Lasell University, where he studied writing for children and young adults. A frequent comics teacher in children’s and young adult departments in libraries and schools, Jonathan was the 2015 Graphic Novelist-in-Residence at the Morse Institute and Bacon Free libraries near Boston.

Before writing and drawing graphic novels for kids, Jonathan studied journalism and illustration at Syracuse University and English and history at Emory University. He was also an education reporter and political cartoonist. His cartoons have appeared in dozens of newspapers, including the Boston Globe, the Tennessean, and the Cincinnati Enquirer. He lives in Dedham with his wife, two children, and an irresistible lemon beagle named Cariño.

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About Reynolds Center for Teaching, Learning, and Creativity.

RC-TLC is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that encourages creativity and innovation in teaching and learning. Founded in 2011 by creativity champions and award-winning authors, Paul and Peter H. Reynolds, RC-TLC is dedicated to ensuring that all learners develop the vision, confidence, knowledge and skills needed to move their own lives forward, and to use their talents, strengths and energy to move their communities and the world to a better place.

The Reynolds brothers and their teams at their Boston-based educational media firm FableVision Studios have been creating award-winning educational media and technology for over 30 years - partnering with best-in-class organizations such as Jim Henson Productions, National Academy of Sciences, PBS Kids, as well as other broadcasters, museums, universities, and researchers. The Reynolds’ K12 education program & resource company FableVision Learning, based in Dedham, MA provides professional development support to foster creativity in the classroom, and will be helping support the programs offered at TLC Studios & Media Lab.