From June 4 to June 15 2012, in advance of the Chicago Alternative Comics Expo (Cake) on June 16th and 17th, the Adventure School for Ladies will hold a two-week collaborative comics intensive at Chicago’s Read/Write Library and Spudnik Press. Top and emerging ladylike drawers will spend two full weeks, from 10 to 6 p.m. every day, creating and publishing a collaborative comics anthology based on research of gender, race, and economics in the comics industry. This will be available at CAKE upon completion of the course.






Application forms are available here, now The Adventure School for Ladies is an experimental graduate program that explores gender, cultural production, political engagement, and social divisions with the top ladylike scholars in the field of adventure studies.