About Family Workshop: Comics Jam
Get ready for this fast-paced comic book creation workshop with author Eric Huang and illustrators Jason Lyon, Mina Ikemoto Ghosh and Rosie Jon.
Discover and explore story structures, before creating your own adventures. Draw alongside our creatives as we collaborate to make and subvert new comic strips. Whose ideas will you develop? And will anyone twist your tale?
A playful introduction to storytelling, creativity, and collaboration.
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Mina Ikemoto Ghosh
Mina Ikemoto Ghosh is a British-Japanese author-illustrator.
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Mina's works include the YA Japanese fantasy duology Hyo the Hellmaker and Hyo and the Deep-Rooted Demon.
Eric Huang
Eric Huang is the author of the Guardians of the New Moon chapter book series.
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As a child, he dreamt of being a palaeontologist but fieldwork didn’t live up to his Jurassic Park dreams. Eric has been an editor, a publisher and a podcaster. He lectures on the Creative Writing and Publishing master’s programme at City St George’s, University of London.
Jason Lyon
Jason Lyon is a British-Chinese illustrator is known for a signature style of magical realism that blends the mythological with the mundane.
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Drawing inspiration from mythology, science fiction, cinema, and nature, Jason works across advertising, medical journals, newspapers, magazines, picture books, book covers.
Family activities at the Library
We have lots of free family events and workshops in London and West Yorkshire. Spaces can fill up quickly, so please book ahead.
You can also pick up a Family Trail from the Information Desk to help you explore the Library further, and visit our free Treasures Gallery.
Food and drink
Families are welcome at all of the Library’s cafés and restaurants. The Terrace Café on the first floor has lots of seating (including an outdoor terrace for sunny days). Highchairs are available in the Terrace Café and the Upper Ground Floor Café, subject to availability.
Families with children may also bring their own food to eat outside on the Piazza or in our public spaces, and there are water fountains that can be used to refill water bottles across the building. Please do not consume food or drink inside the exhibition galleries.
Baby-feeding
Parents are welcome to breastfeed or bottle-feed anywhere in the Library. Please ask a member of Library staff if you would like help finding a quieter space.
Please note that we cannot heat bottles or baby food in our cafés and restaurants.
Bags, cloakrooms and lockers
Our cloakroom and digital lockers are free to use, located on the Lower Ground Floor with step-free access. Please note our cloakroom is closed on Sundays, but you can still use our lockers. View more information on our bags and luggage restrictions.
Baby-changing and toilets
There are baby-changing stations available in the following toilets:
- in the men's and women's toilets on the Lower Ground Floor, near the cloakroom
- in the women's toilets near Reader Registration on the Upper Ground Floor
- in the men's and women's toilets in the Terrace Café on the First Floor
- in the men's and women's toilets in the Knowledge Centre.
Accessible toilets can be found on all floors. The nearest Changing Places toilet is at King's Cross station.
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