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Comic Jam workshop

Overhead view of a library table covered in comic templates, half-finished comic pages and cups of markers, with children's hands drawing. View larger
Comic Jam workshop
Title
Comic Jam workshop
Description
Harlow cartoonist Benny Ortiz spent a Saturday afternoon in the Community Room teaching kids ages 8 to 13 how to plan a four-panel comic: setup, problem, big moment, punch line. Twenty-two kids came and nine of the comics in the show started here, including Captain Biscuit vs. the Vacuum. Saturday, June 27, 2026, 2–4 pm.
Date
2026-06-27
Relation
Four-panel marker comic: a brown dog hides behind a chair saying NO, puts on a red cape and mask, crashes into a vacuum with a yellow BOOM, and stands proudly on the tipped-over vacuum.Captain Biscuit vs. the Vacuum
Three-panel colored-pencil comic: an astronaut floats with a sandwich saying LUNCH, bites it so crumbs float everywhere, and the crumbs drift out the window into a spiral galaxy.Space Lunch
Five-panel ink and marker comic page titled The Book That Ate the Library: a red book with teeth grows huge and chomps the shelves, until a librarian reads it a story and it falls asleep.The Book That Ate the Library
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Fictional demonstration content created for the Omeka S demo. The event is invented and the image was generated with AI (FLUX.2). Free to reuse (CC0 1.0).
Subject
Comics
Workshops
Event Type
Workshop
Participants
22 kids ages 8–13, with Harlow cartoonist Benny Ortiz
Spatial Coverage
Community Room, Harlow Public Library, Harlow, Idaho (fictional)