Elizabeth Pich
Character at the Core: Character-Driven Storytelling in Comics
17. – 29. 8. 26
This course explores how to write character-driven comics. Beginning with comic theory, participants will first learn to understand visual storytelling as well as analyse dramaturgical tools that build tension, suspense, and humour. Then, through guided exercises and later individual project work, participants will develop stories centred around characters with distinct personalities and motivations, and will construct plots that emerge naturally from these character choices. Group discussions, as well as one-on-one consultation will offer refinement and aid in the rewriting process, with the goal of having a finished short comic at the end of the course.
key data
- Venue
- Festung Hohensalzburg
- Date
- 17. – 29. 8. 26
- Teaching language
- English (German possible)
- Participation fee
- 670 Euro (reduced 495 Euro)
- Requirements
- Basic drawing skills, interest in storytelling techniques.
- What to bring
- Paper, pencils, pens, brushes, any desired drawing tools, drafting table or other comic-specific tools if available.
- Maximum number of participants
- 20
Elizabeth Pich
Elizabeth Pich is a German-American comics author. She is the author of Fungirl and co-author of War and Peas. Her books are published in English, French, Italian, Spanish and German. Her latest book Fungirl Forever was published in March 2026 in German by Edition Moderne. Pich lives and works in Saarbrücken (DE).
Website
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
2026 Fungirl Forever, Gallery Arts Factory, Paris.
2025 Spooky Season, Erika Fuchs Haus, Schwarzenbach (DE).
2024 Fungirl, Comic Festival Hamburg, Hamburg (DE).
Fungirl, Comic Salon Erlangen, Erlangen (DE).
Fungirl, Fumetto Festival, Luzern (CH).
Group exhibitions
2024 Von der Seite in den Raum, Klingspor Museum, Offenbach (DE).
Publications
Fungirl Forever, Edition Moderne, Zürich - CH, 2026.
Fungirl–Zwei neue Abenteuer, Edition Moderne, Zürich - CH 2025.
Fungirl, Edition Moderne, Zürich - CH, 2024.
Publisher's text Edition Moderne:
‘Elizabeth Pich's character Fungirl is one thing above all: unpredictable.
Fungirl is a young woman with no prospects who spends her days at home masturbating, eating take-away pizza and watching old sitcoms. She runs from one affair to the next and is uninhibited and extreme in everything she does. Her new job at a funeral parlour brings new chaos - her life is a series of absurd, politically incorrect, slapstick situations. With Becky, her flatmate and ex-girlfriend, and Becky's friend Peter, Fungirl experiences bizarre adventures full of alcohol, sex and humour. Their behaviour is inappropriate, vulgar, opportunistic and yet (or precisely because of this) surprisingly human and charming. An ode to screw-ups with a heart of gold.’
