ToonZA Holiday Club 4-9 October 2021

It’s The Invasion Of The Krazy Kritters!

Over the last few years, ToonZA has run a number of very successful Holiday Workshops, filled with wacky drawings, serious fun and lorryloads of amazing learning!

But now, because of the dreaded Covid-19 pandemic, meeting in a room packed with enthusiastic wannabe cartoonists is a complete no-no!

So, we’ve responded to the challenge by taking ToonZA onto Zoom!

And our first Zoom ToonZA workshop course begins on Tuesday 4 October through to Saturday 9 October.

We will have a small live class of 6-8 participants, and everyone else will be in the same class via Zoom. 

The costs are listed below, so check them out and join! But – Alas! – if you can’t afford it, don’t despair. We have the most INSANE DISCOUNTS and special plans for genuinely disadvantaged participants, and of course our previous participants – the ToonZanians – automatically get 20% off!

More About Krazy Kritters!

KRAZY KRITTERS is our theme for this Holiday Club, and it is what can only be described as X-TREME FUN!

To mark the occasion of our first Adventure in Zoomland, we’ve invited Stella Starfinder, the Galaxy’s Greatest Kritterologist, to introduce us to the Multitudinous  Multiverse of KRAZY KRITTERS – our theme for this Holiday Club. 

Under Stella’s expert guidance, our Holiday Club participants will discover, using your own imaginations and your steadily improving drawing skills, to invent, design and draw some of the Krazy Kritters that inhabit the teeming planets of the Multitudinous Multiverse!

And that’s not all! Once you have invented your Kritters, you will place them in a story that will become your very own Krazy Kritters Mini-Comic Book!

And if your story is chosen as one of the best, it could feature in our ToonZA KRAZY KRITTERS Comic Book, a super Xmas stocking filler if ever there was one!!

Watch This Space For More News On The Toonza Holiday Club And The Krazy Kritter Competition!

All set up for ToonZA: The Art of Comics at The Hive, 2017
Brazilian exchange students at the Muizies-São Paulo Comicstrip Sprint at The Hive, 2018

Our Motto

Our motto, A Luta Cartoonua (The Cartoon Struggle) encourages each person to take up the struggle for personal graphic freedom, to rise above the idea that you can’t draw. You can. And ToonZa will show you how.  Our hardworking and hilarious weekly workshops will put you in the mood to draw and draw and draw. Once your jokes and stories start pouring from your pen, your life will never be the same again. 

A Message To Aspirant Artists: If You Love To Draw, Toonza Is For You

If you’re one of those people who can’t stop drawing, ToonZA is for you. Our obsession is graphic storytelling, whether for entertainment, education or enlightenment. If you want to draw better, make comics, use words and images to tell stories, ToonZA is for you. 

It doesn’t matter how well you draw right now. Drawing can be learned. What matters is the alchemy that happens when your eye and hand and heart and brain conspire — combining words and images into visual narratives that really count. If this is what you want to do, ToonZA is for you.

Parallel Lives Graphic Storytelling Project - Draw By the Shore at The Alive Cafe, 2014
Monster Battle Pro at the Open Book Festival, 2017

The ToonZA Philosophy

Changing the world, one toon at a time
We all want to change the world, and it sure needs changing. 
But how do we do that, as individuals?
Well, you can’t change the world on your own, that’s a given.
But you can create your own reality, on paper!
With nothing more than a pencil & a sharpener & an eraser & a fineliner & a marker or two & some crayons or pastels 
or watercolours, if you wish
— or, if you’re a wired computer whizz, on your screen –
you can create an alternate reality that is all your own –
your own characters, your own world, your own mythologies & magic, your own laws & science, your own history & geography, your own love stories, tragedies, satires & spoofs!

ToonZA teaches you how to do it in the easiest way possible, simply by doing it – fearlessly, & fast!

No time for second-guessing, fossicking or fussing, 
No time for muddleheaded meandering,
With ToonZA, it’s go, go go!
And this is exactly what we are going to show you how to do 
At The Krazy Kritters Holiday Club. C U There!

comics

Now Available On Zoom For Half The Price!

  • 15 HOURS OF ACTION-PACKED FUN LEARNING TO DRAW AMAZING COMICS! ALL AGES!
  • OUR THEME THIS HOLIDAY: KRAZY KRITTERS!
  • IN THIS 5-DAY WORKSHOP YOU WILL MAKE YOUR OWN 8-PAGE KRAZY KRITTERS COMIC BOOK!
  • AND IF YOURS IS ONE OF THE CHOSEN FIVE – YOUR WORK WILL APPEAR IN THE OFFICIAL TOONZA KRAZY KRITTERS COMIC BOOK!
  • HAVE FUN! LEARN TO DRAW LIKE KRAZY! PUBLISH YOURSELF! OR, EVEN BETTER, GET PUBLISHED BY TOONZA!

Krazy Discounts!

  • CHECK THIS OUT – YOU MAY QUALIFY FOR OUR KRAZY DISCOUNTS!
  • TOONZANIANS GET 20% OFF THE PRICE OF THE WORKSHOPS! (IF YOU’VE BEEN TO TOONZA BEFORE YOU ARE A TOONZANIAN!)
  • IF YOU ARE A GENUINELY DISADVANTAGED PERSON, YOU ALSO GET 20% OFF!
  • IF YOU ARE A GENUINELY DISADVANTAGED TOONZANIAN, YOU GET 40% OFF!
  • IF YOU ARE TOE TILLY BROKE, WE’LL TRY AND FIND A SPONSOR FOR YOU!
Some CarToonZian philosophy by Cliff Bestall, made at ToonZA: The Art of Comics course at The Hive, 2017

ToonZA Holiday Club 4-9 October 2021

5 DAYS, 3 HOURS A DAY = 15 HOURS

NOW AVAILABLE ON ZOOM FOR HALF THE PRICE!

Price List

ADVANTAGED PARTICIPANT LIVE CLASS:                          R 1,500.00

ADVANTAGED PARTICIPANT ON ZOOM:                           R 750.00

NOT-SO-ADVANTAGED PARTICIPANT LIVE CLASS:           R 1,000.00
NOT-SO-ADVANTAGED PARTICIPANT ON ZOOM:            R 500.00

DISADVANTAGED PARTICIPANT LIVE CLASS:                     R 500.00
DISADVANTAGED PARTICIPANT ON ZOOM:                      R 250.00

TOTALLY BROKE PARTICIPANT LIVE CLASS:                       R 250.00
TOTALLY BROKE PARTICIPANT ON ZOOM:                        R 125.00

ToonZAnian Price List

ADVANTAGED TOONZANIAN LIVE CLASS:                          R 1,200.00

ADVANTAGED TOONZANIAN ON ZOOM:                           R 600.00

NOT-SO-ADVANTAGED TOONZANIAN LIVE CLASS:           R 800.00
NOT-SO-ADVANTAGED TOONZANIAN ON ZOOM:            R 400.00

DISADVANTAGED TOONZANIAN LIVE CLASS:                     R 400.00
DISADVANTAGED TOONZANIAN ON ZOOM:                      R 200.00

TOTALLY BROKE TOONZANIAN LIVE CLASS:                       R 200.00
TOTALLY BROKE TOONZANIAN ON ZOOM:                        R 100.00

Note To Not-so-advantaged, Disadvantaged Or Totally Broke Participants:

Please send a short Note and your Contact Details with your application motivating why you qualify for one of these discounts. 

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