{"id":143457,"date":"2025-07-01T21:15:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T01:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=143457"},"modified":"2025-07-01T21:15:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T01:15:14","slug":"exciting-summer-workshop-for-teen-writers-illustrators-who-enjoy-comic-books-graphic-novels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=143457","title":{"rendered":"Exciting Summer Workshop for Teen Writers &#038; Illustrators who enjoy Comic Books &#038; Graphic Novels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Exciting Summer Workshop for Teen Writers &amp; Illustrators who enjoy Comic Books &amp; Graphic Novels<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>BETHLEHEM, PA&#8211; Comic book\/ graphic novel character creation and strange new world-building are at the heart of this workshop with graphic novelist Scott Beatty, who has authored hundreds of adventures\u00a0for\u00a0many of comics\u2019 most iconic characters including\u00a0<em>Batman and Robin\u00a0<\/em>tales\u00a0for\u00a0DC Comics, as well as\u00a0<em>The Phantom, Buck Rogers, and Sherlock Holmes<\/em>\u00a0for\u00a0Dynamite Entertainment. Beatty has also contributed comic book stories to IDW Publishing, Dark Horse Comics, and Crossgen Comics.<\/p>\n<p>Participants will learn about the history of comic books, how graphic novels are produced, and then will create the secret origin of their own character and chronicle their first adventure in script and art! Participants will get to showcase their creations during a short \u2018talk-back\u2019 session, pitching their work just like comics pros, with parents and families on the final day of class!\u00a0 Open to children ages 12-16.<\/p>\n<p>The workshop will be held\u00a0 at Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts (Charter Arts), July\u00a014-18, from 9 AM-12 PM daily. The\u00a0workshop is part of the school&#8217;s Summer Academy, a program of arts enrichment workshops that is open to the community and operates as a fundraiser for the school.\u00a0\u00a0For\u00a0more information and registration details, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.charterarts.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.CharterArts.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nAnn Gillette<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exciting Summer Workshop for Teen Writers &amp; Illustrators who enjoy Comic Books &amp; Graphic Novels BETHLEHEM, PA&#8211; Comic book\/ graphic novel character creation and strange new world-building are at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=143457\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Exciting Summer Workshop for Teen Writers &#038; Illustrators who enjoy Comic Books &#038; Graphic Novels<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143458,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5717,69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bethlehem","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/comic-book-25.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143457"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/143458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}