SFZF2021
Workshops, Panels, Demos

No Straight Lines and Archiving Queer Comics History: A Conversation with Justin Hall and Margaret Galvan
Sat, Aug. 28 from 1-2 pm

No Straight Lines was the first museum show of LGBTQ comics art, then a Lambda-winning book, and now a documentary film that recently premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. Join the curator/editor/producer Justin Hall as he chats about archiving queer comics and paying homage to its pioneers with Margaret Galvan, University of Florida Professor and Stanford Fellow researching queer comics and zines.

Justin Hall is the creator of True Travel Tales, Hard to Swallow, and Theater of Terror: Revenge of the Queers, with work in The Best American Comics and Best Erotic Comics. He’s the Chair of the MFA in Comics program at California College of the Arts, the first Fulbright Scholar of Comics, and Producer of No Straight Lines: The Rise of Queer Comics, which was inspired by his Lambda-winning and Eisner-nominated book. justinhallawesomecomics.com

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Margaret Galvan is assistant professor of visual rhetoric at the University of Florida. Her archivally-informed research examines how visual culture operates within feminist and queer social movements of the 1970s-90s and includes a forthcoming book, In Visible Archives. This year, she is in residence at the Stanford Humanities Center as the Distinguished Junior External Fellow researching her second book about how American LGBTQ cartoonists in the 1980s-90s formed community through comics. margaretgalvan.org

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Screen Printing with Paper Stencils w/ Yael Levy
Sat, Aug. 28 from 3-4 pm

Have a screen at home but no access to a print shop or professional equipment? Looking for a quick and easy way to get back into printing? Join us online to learn this quick and easy process of making screen prints with a simple cut paper stencil.

Leah Yael Levy is my full name, I prefer that you call me Yael. I am a mixed media artist, storyteller, printmaker and art teacher based in Berkeley, CA. I draw, paint, collage and write. I often self publish my work, and sometimes print and bind it by hand. I love playing with forms and format and mixing digital and tactile techniques.

My work is based in my own experience as a brown, bi-racial, bilingual and bisexual woman. Since this is a-lot to unpack, I often take more pleasure in telling others’ stories, making up imaginary creatures or just painting images of beautiful nature. I believe the creative process to be its own reward and the act of making an incredible tool for healing and growing. I like to remind people of the artist in them, or at the very least make them smile. Although once in a while the work makes people cry too. leahyaellevy.com

Family-friendly Drawing Games
Sun, Aug. 29 from 1-2 pm

Looking for some silly drawing fun? Join SF Zine Fest organizer Lauren Davis as she fires off drawing prompts that the whole family can try!

Lauren Davis is a Berkeley-based cartoonist, comic book writer, educator, and SF Zine Fest organizer. She is part of the Triple Dream Comics studio with Melanie Hilario and Katie Longua. Lauren, Mel, and Katie created the graphic novel Debian Perl, Digital Detective, have had work appear in The Nib, and are currently working on their second graphic novel. elledee.com

Teaching Drawing Elements of Comics to Kids
Sun, Aug. 29 from 3-4 pm

This workshop is for adults. Participants will learn how comics are necessary in the classroom, along with lesson plans and strategies on how to impart comic elements to students.

Meggie Ramm is a non-binary cartoonist and comic educator. They've done work for the New Yorker and Silver Sprocket, and have spent the last six years teaching kids comics. Currently they are creating Littlest Dungeon Guard for Sunday HaHa while working on their first full length graphic novel. meggieramm.com