Comics, Storytelling, Gourmet Toast, and Your Brain - A 7000 BC Special Event

Comics, Storytelling, Gourmet Toast, and Your Brain | Saturday, June 10, 2023 | 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM MDT | Online | Pay-What-You-Can 

Explore the psychological, emotional, and physical effects of a good story, found on the bread aisle!  Our brains rely on images and stories to frame our understanding of the world. 

What's really going on in there?

Don't our cognitive processes work the same?

Can our brains really sync up?

How would we even find out?

Explore these questions and more!

Good stories climb inside us and affect us psychologically, emotionally, and even physically.

This presentation explores how storytelling functions in the brain. The lecture will be followed by a brief workshop in which we'll create comics using techniques based on what the lecture has revealed.

This is a Pay-What-You-Can Event. 

Registration is required.  Click to register through Eventbrite.

• Suggested Donation $25
  
• Teens and Adults
• Saturday, April 29, 2023
• 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
• Workshop materials are simple - pen (preferably dark) and paper or digital equivalent.
• Scholarships available. Email jeff@7000bc.org

7000 BC's Between the Panels Comics Workshops, our series of pay-what-you-can online comics workshops, are on a break and will return in the fall.

In the meantime, we are presenting three Special Events - lectures on assorted comics topics that culminate in brief comics workshops built on the lecture topics. If you would like to receive an email about upcoming Special Events or the full 16-week course this Fall, please email info@7000bc.org.

Stay safe, be well, and make comics!

Jeff Smith Event at Bookworks on April 25

Jeff Smith | Tuesday, April 25, 2023 | 6:00 - 8:00 PM | Bookworks | 4022 Rio Grande Blvd NW, Albuquerque, NM 87107 | FREE!

Jeff Smith's Dawn of Man Tour heads to Bookworks to celebrate his ongoing series, TUKI! 

Set two million years ago, when multiple species of hominids existed at the same time, this hand-drawn story follows the misadventures of a small band of early humans who controlled fire in an epoch when gods and giants were real, and fire was taboo.

Jeff Smith is the writer & artist of comics and graphic novels like BONE, RASL, SHAZAM: The Monster Society of Evil, ROSE and Tall Tales. Both BONE and RASL were self-published and are New York Times Bestsellers. BONE launched the current YA Graphic Novel explosion via Scholastic Books’ Graphix imprint and has won 41 national and international awards including 10 Eisner Awards and 11 Harvey Awards and has been translated into over 30 foreign languages. RASL won an Eisner for Best Graphic Novel. The webcomic version of TUKI won the National Cartoonists Award for Best Online Comic in 2014.

The event will begin with a brief presentation highlighting the art and behind the scenes look at Mr. Smith’s career, projects past and present, a Q&A, and a book signing.  Fun giveaways will be distributed throughout the event.  Attendees are welcome to bring up to two books by Jeff that they already own to the signing.

Tuesday, April 25, 2023

6:00pm to 8:00pm

FREE!

Bookworks

4022 Rio Grande Blvd NW

Albuquerque, NM 87107

Stay safe, be well, and make comics!

7000 BC at LVNM Zinefest!

LVNM Zinefest | Friday, April 21 - Sunday, April 23, 2023 | NM Highlands University | Student Union Building | 800 National Ave., Las Vegas, NM | FREE!

Celebrate indie lit and art with 7000 BC and local and national zinesters at the first annual LVNM ZINEFEST!  Tabling is 10 AM - 3 PM each day, with panels, readings and other events running into the early evening.  This event is hosted by New Mexico Highlands University's Literary Arts Club.  Masks are encouraged but not required.  And it's free!

We'll be tabling and will run a workshop Saturday at noon. 

Stay safe, be well, and make comics!

How to Make Your Own Comic Book!

How to Make Your Own Comic Book! | Workshop | Saturday, April 15, 2023 | 12:00 - 2:00 PM | Holiday Park Community Center | 11710 Comanche Rd NE, Albuquerque, NM 87111 | $30

Local Comics Creator Peter Ziomek will guide you as you combine panels, words, and pictures to make your own comics in this fast-paced, hands-on workshop!

Ages 18 and up.  All skill levels welcome! 

WALK OUT HOLDING A COMIC BOOK MADE BY YOU!

How to MAKE YOUR OWN Comic Book!
Saturday, April 15, 2023
12–2 p.m.
Holiday Park Community Center, 11710 Comanche Rd NE, Albuquerque, NM 87111
Ages 18 and Up
$30 Pay in person or register via EVENTBRITE
Materials: Paper and Pencils provided
Meeting Room 1
A free CABQ membership pass is required. Food and drink are not allowed 

Comics Censorship, Bannings, and Burnings - A 7000 BC Special Event

Comics Censorship, Bannings, and Burnings | Saturday, April 29, 2023 | 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM MDT | Online | Pay-What-You-Can

 

Comic Strips, Comic Books, and Graphic Novels have faced censorship in stores, libraries, Congress and elsewhere since their inception.

What have those challenges been?

Where did they come from?

How have they shifted with legal, societal, and technological currents?

Explore these questions and more!

From The Yellow Kid's personal rights and the weighing of the First Amendment to the flight of underground Air Pirates and the Drama of today's Mauses, we'll lay out the whole raucous and cautionary tale. Then we'll pull it all together in a brief workshop about comics censorship.

This is a Pay-What-You-Can Event.

Registration is required.  Click to register through Eventbrite. 

• Suggested Donation $25
  
• Teens and Adults
• Saturday, April 29, 2023
• 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
• Workshop materials are simple - pen (preferably dark) and paper or digital equivalent.
• Scholarships available. Email jeff@7000bc.org

7000 BC's Between the Panels Comics Workshops, our series of pay-what-you-can online comics workshops, are on a break and will return in the fall.

In the meantime, we are presenting three Special Events - lectures on assorted comics topics that culminate in brief comics workshops built on the lecture topics. If you would like to receive an email about upcoming Special Events or the full 16-week course this Fall, please email info@7000bc.org.

Stay safe, be well, and make comics!

January 2023 Meeting | Saturday, January 7 | 1:00–4:00 | Slice and Dice Pizzeria | Albuquerque, NM

7000 BC will be holding our first in-person meeting since 2020!

Next week — Saturday, January 7 at 1:00 we'll be getting together at Slice and Dice Pizzeria at 5720 McMahon Blvd. NW Suite B in Albuquerque.

Join us for some food and drink and some much-needed catching up. Share what you've been working on or just socialize. Stay the whole time or just stop by to say hi. We'll also be discussing plans for the year.

And if you can't make this one, don't worry — we're aiming to start regular meetings back up again in 2023, we'll see you another time. 

Between the Panels Comics Workshops - The Gestalt of It All

Between The Panels Comics | Lecture/Workshop | Saturday, December 10, 2022 | 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM MST | In-Person & Online | FREE!

7000 BC goes HYBRID!

This year's final Between the Panels is streaming LIVE from Mesa Public Library in Los Alamos!

Sat., Dec. 10, 2022

• The Gestalt of It All (History, Monsters, and Comics)
  
• Monsters have controlled the evolution of comics.  What have we wrought?
•  Did you know monsters have controlled the evolution of comics?  Independent comic book creators from 7000 BC will guide you through a who's who of the monsters in, around, and behind comics over the past century, revealing how their presence has shaped the comics industry.  Then we'll jump in with pen in hand, wrestle your personal creative demons, pin 'em to the page, and give them a stern talking to about who makes the comics in this relationship.
  

Between the Panels - The Gestalt of It All
A Comics Lecture & Workshop
Teens and Adults
Saturday, December 10, 2022
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Online Via Eventbrite
In-Person at Mesa Public Library
2400 Central Ave
Los Alamos, NM 87544
All materials provided.
This event is FREE!

This is the last Between the Panels Comics Workshop for 2022.  We will return in January.
Questions?  Email Jeff.

 

BETWEEN THE PANELS, 7000 BC's series of pay-what-you-can online comics workshops, are here to enliven your 2022.  Sharpen your pencils, roll out the virtual paper and get ready to draw upon your strengths.  Join us as we explore a storytelling medium like no other.  Drop-in students are welcome! 

Registration is required.  Workshop registration is through Eventbrite. 

Once registered, you'll get a weekly invitation to upcoming workshops unless you tell us to stop.  We won't send you anything else.  We use Zoom for workshops, so you'll have to sign up for a free Zoom account here as well.

Improve your ability to communicate through word and image.

Uncover different aspects and perspectives on the comics-making process.

Explore the essence of what makes comics unique through invigorating and contemplative workshops.

Why not tickle your brain with comics?!!

Stay safe, be well, and make comics!