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Art Builds Community

Create a Comic with Raeghan Buchanan

Join us for a fantastic workshop taught by local artist Raeghan Buchanan on how to create your own comic book!

Join us at Bexley Library for an exciting addition to our Art Builds Community series! Local artist Raeghan Buchanan will guide you through the creative process of making your very own comic book. Whether you’re a seasoned artist or just starting, this workshop offers the perfect blend of hands-on instruction, creative inspiration, and fun!

Supplies will be provided. Registration required.

Raeghan Buchanan is an artist from Erie, PA who resides in Columbus, Ohio and paints murals, draws portraits, makes comics, plays drums, and chooses death by typeface. Buchanan uses traditional drawing tools - pen, brushes, sumi ink, and vellum paper - to illustrate stylistically proto-cubist images of important figures in Black history; creating starkly lit, highly modeled portraiture with embellishments of anxiously detailed and decoratively weaved textures. Buchanan makes comics highlighting rock ‘n’ roll musical roots in Black culture and focuses  specifically on the punk rock aspects of that canon. She gets artistic influence from early punk aesthetic and the political/art movements it drew from, and uses the DIY vehicles associated with punk, such as sloganeering, merchandise, and zines to proliferate information. She created and co-runs @POCtoberArt online, an instagallery that goes live during October and calls for artist participation in drawing Black and POC punk bands, as well as funk and rock musicians, in order to document, practice drawing skills, and create a visual dialog between artists and bands.

The Art Builds Community Program Series is made possible through the generosity and funding of the Rath Creative Arts Fund of the Bexley Community Foundation.

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