Thanks to all who came out to the first Canvas “Sequential Art Meetup - Comics & Visual Storytelling” event at Everyst HQ last Thursday, February 15th!

The event began with presentations: first with a brief history of Tim Young’s podcast Deconstructing Comics, then Mulele Jarvis’ experiences with funding comics through Kickstarter, and Raúl Trevino describing his creative process and his recently launched story, Live Forever.

The following Q&A session gave our presenters a chance to discuss a variety of topics, including social media (the consensus is to focus on what’s most fun!), and print versus digital; where we talked about advantages and disadvantages, distribution, print amount, and stock.

We hope everyone enjoyed hanging out afterwards, and getting to meet fellow creatives to talk stories, ideas, collaborations, and life in general!

Special thanks to Benjamin Watanabe for letting us use Everyst HQ (formerly LongShorts) for the event! https://fromeveryst.com

Guest speakers:
Tim Young
http://deconstructingcomics.com
www.patreon.com/deconcomics

Mulele Jarvis
www.mulele.com/redux
Twitter and Instagram: muleleredux
Facebook: mulele.redux.9

Raúl Trevino
https://trevinoart.com
Instagram and Twitter: RaulTrevinoArt
Youtube and Facebook: TrevinoArt

The evening’s attendees (in no particular order):
Mark Mcfarlane www.tacchistudios.com
Yeka Haski www.yekahaski.com
Lyle Nisenholz www.tokyobonobo.wordpress.com
Lori Ono
Petar Tasev petartasev.net
Nathan Cowdry
Oscar K. https://twitter.com/bigfatdogcomics
Erica Ward
Andrew Browne
James Stacey
Felipe Kolb Bernardes
Yu Akinaga
Benjamin Watanabe
Ainaa Azman
Kevin Kee
Eric Belisle
Naomi Oren
Chihiro Watanabe

Organizers:
Julia Nascimento
Hengtee Lim

Thanks for having such an awesome event at our studio! Looking forward to the next and hopefully getting to collaborate with some of the artists that came!

Thank you, Ben! Your office is amazing and the library is growing beautifully. I hope lots of other creative people can pay a visit sometime!

I hope they can and will let us know what we're missing. Here's a link to our reservation page if anyone wants to reserve it for free for a few hours to hang out and read! https://fromeveryst.com/library-reservations

Was great fun! Thanks to Julia, Hengtee and Ben for organizing/hosting! Looking forward to next time.