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Manga Day at City Arts Newbury

Children Comic and Manga workshops with Emma Shannon

Sunday 19 July 2026

Explore drawing and create your own comic story or manga character or both.

Learn to Make your Own Comic Strip

11am to 12:30pm – £25

This workshop is suitable for children 7+

This workshop will introduce you to the secrets of cartoonists. You will create your own cartoon character with funny expressions and will then learn how to structure and create a funny comic strip to bring your character to life.

All materials provided

A comic strip featuring a cheerful character with spiky blonde hair wearing an orange shirt, celebrating a ball's victory over a dog. The top row includes panels with the character, the dog, and expressions of confusion. The bottom row shows the character running and finally claiming victory with excitement.

Learn to Draw Cool Manga Faces

1 to 2:30pm – £35

This workshop is suitable for children 10+

Explore manga and anime! Manga is a cartoon based drawing style used to create graphic novels and comics in Japan.
Anime is short for animation, it uses manga in animated movies and series. You will create the portrait of your very own manga character!

All materials provided

An illustration of a young girl with straight black hair featuring blue highlights, wearing a red top. She has large brown eyes and an expression of surprise.

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Siblings get a 25% discount on second ticket – choose the two ticket bundle when purchasing your ticket.

A person drawing a comic strip featuring two characters named Phil and Bob with speech bubbles expressing their feelings and conversations.
A colorful comic strip featuring a boy with spiky hair and an orange shirt celebrating a victory, accompanied by a dog and a ball. The dog is shown running after the ball, while the boy expresses confusion and excitement, concluding with the phrase 'Victory is MINE!!'.
A colorful, cartoon-style illustration of a character with animal ears and vibrant eyes, smiling cheerfully.
A close-up of a hand holding a pencil, sketching a cartoon face on white paper.

Cancellation policy.

Please note that a ticketing fee of £2 is included in the price of this workshop and this is not refundable in any circumstance.

If you are unable to attend the workshop and you cancel your attendance more than two weeks prior to the workshop, the ticketing fee above will be retained.  If you cancel less than two weeks before the workshop no fees are refundable.

In the event of City Arts having to cancel the workshop due to participants’ numbers falling below the minimum requirement or government advice changes, we will refund the whole workshop amount.