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Mel Gillman is a queer, nonbinary cartoonist living in San Francisco, CA. They're the author of As the Crow Flies, Stage Dreams, and Other Ever Afters, and are currently serving as Comics Chair at California College of the Arts.

I finally have print copies of my new mushroom foraging zine available in my shop! Each zine features 20 pages of full-color comics, packed to the gills with mushroom hunting and identification tips. Also, as a bonus, each copy has been hand-stitched with wool yarn I dyed with foraged lichens :)

Get your pencils sharpened: I'm teaching my online Winter Graphic Memoir workshop this January through the Center for Cartoon Studies! This'll be a 5 day intensive, and it's always an utter delight -- full of lots of drawing, lots of practical lessons, and lots of personalized feedback and support from your instructors and classmates. All experience levels welcome! Check out CCS's Workshop page if you'd like to spend a cold January week warmed by the light of comics~*~

Next Tuesday 11/26 at Silver Sprocket, I'm going to be teaching a workshop on Fairy Tale and Fable Comics! Come join us to learn about fable and fairy tale comics, and draw an original one of your own! The class has a $0-50 sliding scale fee (with no one turned away for lack of funds), and there's still time to sign up on Silver Sprocket's website. Hope to see you there, Bay Area folks!

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