Draw your own Cartoon Character

An exciting online opportunity for regional and remote schools to engage with OzAsia Festival’s Weekend of Words writing and ideas program! 

Join Gavin Aung Than online as he shows students how to draw cartoon characters from his graphic novel series Super Sidekicks and picture book series Baa Baa Black Belt. Then, he'll help students create a cartoon character of their own! Gavin will also answer student questions and share a behind-the-scenes look at how he creates his books. 

Gavin Aung Than is a New York Times bestselling cartoonist. After working in the corporate graphic design industry for 8 years he quit his unfulfilling job and sold his house to follow his true passion: drawing cartoons. His work includes Zen Pencils, a webcomic which adapts inspirational quotes into comics that was named one of PCMag’s best 100 websites of 2013, and Super Sidekicks, a middle grade graphic novel series. Baa Baa Black Belt is his new picture book series and combines Gavin’s two lifelong obsessions of martial arts and drawing silly pictures. He lives in Perth, Western Australia. 

All South Australian schools are welcome to apply – preference will be given to Department for Education schools in regional and remote areas.  

Important information for schools

• Please use the “Register Now” button to complete an expression of interest form for your school group. This is an expression of interest form only.  
• We will aim to send out first round booking confirmations by the end of Week 7 (Term 3) and will process enquiries that come in after this time weekly. 
• If selected, centrED will host your session via the Microsoft Teams app. Schools will need to project the video so that the students can see Gavin and his illustrations and also have a video feed of students for Gavin to see and communicate with students audibly.