Graphic Novel Boot Camp

Program Type:

Workshop

Age Group:

Adults
  • Registration is required for this event.
  • Registration will close on March 11, 2026 @ 5:30pm.

Event Details

Romey Petite, New Orleans writer and artist will lead a three-part series titled Graphic Novel Boot Camp at the East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon, Metairie.

The dates are:

  • 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 11
  • 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 18
  • 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 25

This event is free of charge and open to the public. It is intended for adults.

The aim of this workshop is to write and complete an eight-page short story in the graphic novel format, ready to be illustrated. 

“You don’t need to know how to draw for this workshop, beyond basic composition, to visualize how the final art might affect readers,” says Petite. “Graphic novel storytelling techniques, including consideration for the comic book and manga mediums.”

  • How to choose the right artist for your story (if you’re not the artist).
  • How to describe what the artist should draw.
  • How to script and format a short comic book story in a way that impacts the reader.
  • Thumbnailing and sketching ideas for graphic novel writers.
  • How to pace your story, fast and slow, and how to disperse plot points and when.
  • When to use big panels, close-ups, far shots, dutch angles etc,, or small panels in sequence.
  • The language to describe the above on the final page that will be illustrated.

Romey Petite is an illustrator for Antigravity magazine, the 2026 artist-in-residence for the Mudlark Public Theater's New Orleans Giant Puppet Festival, an MFA graduate of the Center for Cartoon Studies, and also a board member of the Neutral Ground Coffeehouse nonprofit. Petite recently completed his forthcoming graphic memoir COMICORPSE and is currently working on a novel about the Tarot and the Fool's Journey. With illustrator Laurel Holden, he published Spiderella: The Girl Who Spoke with Spiders. His short fiction has been published in the Fiends in the Furrows: Anthology of Folk Horror Vol. 1, Coffin Bell Journal, and on the Fairy Tales for Unwanted Children podcast.

 

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