Comics Corner x Art Night: This is Me
The Project
In Autumn 2025 our Comics Corner group combined forces with Feeling Strong’s Art Night to make a supergroup of comics talent aged 12-18! At the beginning of the project each young person was given a sketchbook and the challenge to express themselves, and the end goal of working together towards a publication. What this publication was going to look like was up to them to decide.
Each week the group explored a different theme or art technique, and over the course of the sessions the young people were introduced to different ways of creating - drawing, painting, collage, printmaking, and how they can be used to tell different kinds of stories. They visited DJCAD to examine the works of Ian Hamilton Findlay, and responded by creating their own letterpress art. They learned about the wonderful world of riso printing, developing zines and posters for 2-colour printing, printed by Yalla Riso.
They then took all of this learning and developed their final pieces for a collective zine anthology titled This is Me - Comics Youth SCIO’s biggest zine yet, containing 44 pages of stories and artwork by our amazing young people!
Wraparound This is Me zine cover, designed by the group.