You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives. ~Clay P. Bedford

Draw on Your Creativity with Jay Piscopo

In this interactive drawing workshop, comic book artist Jay Piscopo uses simple geometric shapes to teach kids how to build anatomy and perspective to create art that tells a story. Check out Jay in the CLASSROOM. Go behind the scenes in JAY'S STUDIO where he creates The Undersea Adventures of Capt'n Eli graphic novel series.

Appearance Schedule

Click HERE for Jay Piscopo's Appearance Schedule.

Jay Piscopo is now booking school and library visits. Contact Tami Burke at tami@maine.rr.com to book.

Friday, July 31, 2009

Jay Piscopo: August Appearance Schedule

View Jay Piscopo's full schedule at this link.

August 1
11:00 -- Waterboro Public Library - Waterboro, ME
1:00 -- Hollis Public Library -- Hollis, ME

August 4
11:00 -- Rockland Public Library -- Rockland, ME
3:30 -- Rockport Public Library -- Rockport, ME

August 5
1:00
Belfast Free Library -- Belfast, ME

August 9
10:00 - 4:00
Celebrate Maine Festival -- Eliot, ME

August 11
6:30
Art Show Reception
Camden Public Library -- Camden, ME

August 12
10:30
Bridgton Public Library -- Bridgton, ME
Read more HERE

August 15
1:00 - 4:00
Children's Book Fair by the Sea
Camden Public Library -- Camden, ME

Jay Piscopo is the author and illustrator of The Undersea Adventures of Capt'n Eli all ages graphic novel series. In his interactive Draw on Your Creativity drawing workshop, comic book artist Jay Piscopo uses simple geometric shapes to teach kids how to build anatomy and perspective to create art that tells a story. Check out photos from his workshop at this link.

For more information and to book Jay to visit your school or library contact Tami Kennedy at info@captneli.com .

Monday, July 27, 2009

Wedesday, July 29: Jay Piscopo at Thompson Free Library

This Wednesday, July 29 at 10:30 Maine comic book artist Jay Piscopo will be at the Thompson Free Library in Dover Foxcroft, Maine. He will present his interactive Draw on Your Creativity drawing workshop for kids.

In this workshop, Jay uses simple geometric shapes to teach kids how to build anatomy and perspective to create art that tells a story.

Click HERE to go behind the scenes in Jay's studio where he creates The Undersea Adventures of Capt'n Eli all ages graphic novel series.

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

August 12: Jay Piscopo at Bridgton Public Library

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Comic Book Artist Jay Piscopo Will Draw on Your Creativity at Bridgton Public Library

BRIDGTON, ME – (July 23, 2009) – As part of this year’s summer reading program theme “Be Creative @ Your Library,” Maine comic book artist Jay Piscopo will present his “Draw on Your Creativity” drawing workshop at the Bridgton Public Library on Wednesday, August 12 at 10:30 am. This free, hour-long workshop is geared towards kids ages 7-13. Contact the Bridgton Public Library, 1 Church Street, 207-647-2472 for full details and registration information.

Piscopo is the author and illustrator of The Undersea Adventures of Capt’n Eli all-ages graphic novel series. In this interactive workshop, he invites kids to try their hand at cartoon art and demonstrates how anyone can learn to draw and create comics. Using simple geometric shapes, he teaches how to build anatomy and perspective to create art that tells a story. For a behind the scenes look at this workshop, visit this link.

More about Jay Piscopo: Jay Piscopo is the author and illustrator of The Undersea Adventures of Capt’n Eli all-ages graphic novel series and has been making state-of-the-art children's entertainment for nearly 20 years. He served as an art director at Tom Snyder Productions, where he led the creative team in the production of educational CD-ROMs, including the award-winning Fizz and Martina Math Adventures and was as an animator on the ABC Saturday morning show Squigglevision. He was also the co-creator of the internationally distributed comic book series featuring the world’s first disabled superheroes, The Scrap City Pack Rats, which he created in partnership with Goodwill Industries. He resides in his hometown of Portland, Maine.

More about The Undersea Adventures of Capt’n Eli: With his companions Jolly Roger, a 200-year-old parrot, and the faithful seadog Barney, Capt’n Eli takes readers into a mesmerizing world of time travel, high-tech ships, flying mini-subs, robots, lost civilizations, and undersea empires in conflict. Volumes 1 and 2 are available now and Volume 3 is scheduled for release later this year. This series is published by Nemo Publishing and distributed nationally by Diamond Comics Distributors. Read more about the series at this link.

Capt'n Eli's origins are quite unique. He’s the namesake of real-life World War II veteran Eli Forsley who was also the inspiration for a line of hand-crafted sodas from Portland, Maine. Read more at this link.

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