A community creating comics: VCUarts Qatar’s Creating Comics Retreat

In December of 2024, the VCUarts Qatar Comics Lab, created under the VCUarts Qatar Libraries and funded by VCUQatar’s Institute for Creative Research held a three-day Creating Comics Retreat that invited members of the larger creative community in Doha Qatar to participate in creating short comics around the theme of “Third Culture Kids.” The event made use of faculty expertise in comic and graphic novel development from the Creative Writing Department at VCUarts’ home campus in Richmond, Virginia. The retreat resulted in several scripts for short comics.