Pittsfield Talks Comics with Colleen AF Venable

Get inspired with local author Colleen AF Venable, the writer behind graphic novel favorites Katie the Catsitter, Junie B. Jones, and Kiss Number 8. Discover how to take your story from idea to script and ask questions about writing comics. Pittsfield Talks Comics is the concluding event for all ages for Pittsfield Makes Comics a 5-day cartooning workshop series for ages 10-18. Register for free.

Colleen AF Venable is the author of the National Book Award Longlisted Kiss Number 8, a graphic novel co-created with Ellen T. Crenshaw. Her other books include the Katie the Catsitter series with Stephanie Yue, Mervin the Sloth is About to Do the Best Thing in The World with Ruth Chan, The Oboe Goes Boom Boom Boom with Lian Cho, and the Guinea Pig, Pet Shop Private Eye series, also with Stephanie Yue and nominated for the Best Publication for Kids Eisner award. Previously Colleen was the sole designer for hundreds of First Second Books, worked as a Creative Director for Workman and Macmillan, and the Director for Epic! Kids. Now she writes full-time and splits. her time between North Adams, MA and Brooklyn, NY.

Pittsfield Talks Comics is made possible by grants from the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation and the Pittsfield Cultural Council, a local agency supported by Mass Cultural Council.