Activity: Comic Drawing with Ajuan Mance

Wednesday, 2/25/2026
6:00 - 7:00
Bernal Heights Meeting Room
Bernal Heights

500 Cortland Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94110
United States

415-355-2810

Learn how to draw comic book characters with Ajuan Mance, author and illustrator, as you draw a self-portrait of yourself as a superhero. Limited copies of Mance's book, What Do Brothas Do All Day? will be available for participants.

Ajuan Mance is an artist and writer based in Oakland and a Professor of Illustration at California College of the Arts. She has shown their art, zines and comics at exhibitions and festivals from Vallejo to Vienna. Mance is the author and illustrator of 1001 Black Men, Living While Black, and What Do Brothas Do All Day? Her comics collection, Gender Studies, was published last spring.

Connect: Ajuan Mance - Website I Ajuan Mance - Facebook I Ajuan Mance - Instagram

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