Lark Pien is a cartoonist, colorist, and author-illustrator of three children's books, and over thirty short stories for comic anthologies and pamphlet style comics. A contributor to the young readers' SundayHaha.com and Illustoria magazine, Lark is best known for her characters Long Tail Kitty, Mr. Elephanter. Her colorwork appears in bestsellers Sunny Side Up, Stargazing, Dragon Hoops, Invisible, and American Born Chinese. She's colored for many YA authors including Gene Luen Yang, Christina Diaz Gonzalez, and Jennifer & Matthew Holm. Lark received a Kim Yale award, a Harvey, and is a minigrant recipient of Koyama Provides.

Lark's favorite way to make comics is with pencil and paper. She likes that a story can be told within a single panel and simultaneously in many panels together. In art, she gravitates towards nonhomogenous environments, prefering to explore complexities of relational objects and their meanings.

Her zine corner on Patreon features the less abstract Immortal Chicken, journaling her travels, animal encounters, food recipes, relationships with fellow chickens, and practice in the internal martial arts. @larkpien

Participants will get hands-on experience with a text generator and text-to-image generator to foster an understanding of the possibilities and limitations of Gen AI, as well as to provide context for a conversation about the enduring power of human storytelling.

dive into some internal arts with immortal chicken and manifest characters from your inner self! discover your most authentic comic stories! Sept 5 at 6pm ET / 3 pm PT