Jr. Space Pirates’ Society: Comic Creation Club (Ages 8 – 14) FREE!
January 29 from 5:30 – 6:30 pm
Join the Junior Space Pirates’ Society for a hands-on comic creation club for young writers and artists! In this fun and focused club, students will learn how to build worlds, create characters, and tell original stories through comics. Note: students can write about space or pirates or anything they want to! The goal is to complete a short comic (one to four pages) that will be featured in the Junior Space Pirates’ Anthology—a community zine celebrating new young creators. The club’s weekly topics include world-building, scripting, drawing, lettering, and cover design, plus peer feedback and planning for a celebratory launch party. Homework is required to stay on track. At the end of spring quarter (May 2026), each student will submit their amazing final comic along with a cover and a short bio for printing. Please enter through the 5th Street door.
Teaching Artist: Sarah Marcotte
Cost: FREE!
Location: Art Center East
REGISTER HERE: Comic Creation Club registration page
Parents/guardians of youth age 17 or younger: if you haven’t already done so, CLICK HERE to fill out a Youth Release Form in order for your child to participate in ACE classes.
There are limited spots available for this class! If you reserve a ticket and later find you’re unable to attend, please email the ACE Youth Coordinator at [email protected] to cancel your reservation. This helps ACE open up spots for other interested students. Thank you!
Date
- Jan 29 2026
Time
- 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Location
- 1006 Penn Ave, La Grande, OR
Teaching Artist
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Sarah Marcotte
Sarah Marcotte has been a lifelong consumer of cartoons, comics, and films. She studied psychology and multimedia design, and her first job after college was as a videographer for a custom homes show; there she learned the ins and outs of visual storytelling through drafting storyboards and operating a glide cam. Sarah then started creating comics. Her first works were published in 2016. She then branched out by writing a graphic novel series and producing a faux podcast and audio drama. Sarah is passionate about building an army of fellow storytellers who will go out into the world and launch their original creations on the waiting public.
