Cartooning Workshop with Rick Stromoski (Prosser)

Rick Stromoski is our featured presenter as part of our Library Open House to Celebrate BPS Literacy Week!

Rick's cartooning workshop will demonstrate how you can easily create many characters using the same shapes repeatedly—just by changing a few elements. By adding or subtracting some lines, you can draw a wide variety of characters and expressions. Don't miss these cartooning tips from an expert!

Registration is greatly appreciated for Rick's workshop.

Rick Stromoski is an award-winning cartoonist/ humorous illustrator and now—with his Schnozzer & Tatertoes series Take a Hike and Shoot the Moon—graphic novelist. His freelance cartooning career has spanned 43 years with a body of work that includes newspaper syndication, book illustration, licensing, advertising, and network television. He takes great joy teaching cartooning to children online through libraries all over the U.S. and does personal appearances at schools, libraries, and community centers throughout New England.

Rick had three syndicated newspaper comic strips from 1987–2018 and has designed hundreds of greeting cards for national card companies. He has illustrated books for MacMillan, Workman, Irena Chalmers, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Candlewick Press, McGraw-Hill, Andrews McMeel Publishing, Grolier, Golden Books, Scholastic, Random House, and Contemporary Books. In addition, he was President of the National Cartoonists Society from 2005–2007 and served as its charitable foundation president from 2008–2014. 

Rick lives in northern CT with his wife, Danna, and their rescued miniature schnauzer, Trixie.