Zoom Cartooning Workshop (weekend)

Available over Zoom for the first time!

WHEN: May 17th, 12pm-2pm (Eastern)
WHERE: Zoom (link will be emailed to the address provided)

ABOUT THE CLASS:

Come learn how to make cartoons with Asher Perlman (The Late Show with Stephen Colbert), who NPR calls “one of today’s great New Yorker cartoonists.” In this information-packed workshop, Asher walks you through everything you need to know about crafting the perfect gag cartoon, from brainstorming ideas to writing the caption to perfecting your visual style. Whether you want to become a professional cartoonist or you just want to stretch your joke writing muscles in a new direction, this class is for you.

At the end of the day, Asher’s goal is for you to walk away armed with all the tools you need to submit cartoons to The New Yorker yourself (he’ll also explain how you can do that).

ABOUT ASHER:

Asher has been cartooning for The New Yorker since 2020. His debut cartoon collection, Well, This Is Me, was released this year by Andrews McMeel and immediately became a national bestseller. Asher is also a writer on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and a performer with The Improvised Shakespeare Company. Before moving to NYC, Asher spent ten years in Chicago performing at iO and The Second City.

PRAISE FOR ASHER’S CARTOONS

“Asher Perlman can do in one frame what I need two hours and seventeen minutes to accomplish half as well! Insightful, human and hilarious.”
-Judd Apatow

“Asher's cartoons are just like him: very funny, keenly attuned to the inherent strangeness of existence.”
-Stephen Colbert

“Asher Perlman’s cartoons are the kind of funny that make you question what it is to be a person, but in a good way.”
-Ben Stiller

“Thank goodness for Asher's sense of humor. His unique style of comedy ranges from silly to brilliant to absurd.“
-Amber Ruffin

“Any hack can conjure up the absurdity of human existence in a six hundred page novel (yeah you heard me, titans of literature!) but to do it with one image and one caption takes real genius. Asher Perlman’s comics are pure gold.”
-Rian Johnson

“Asher Perlman is the James Joyce of cartooning… if James Joyce was consistently hilarious and could draw well.”
-Paul Feig

“Asher Perlman is so goddamn funny… He deserves every reader’s love at all times forever.”
-Emma Allen, Cartoon Editor, The New Yorker