Little Fish Comic Book studio

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Little Fish Comic Book Studio in College Area, San Diego, runs comic-art classes and camps from 6822B El Cajon Boulevard in the 92115 ZIP, anchoring one of the city's only dedicated sequential-art instruction spaces on the boulevard's international dining and creative corridor. Co-founders Alonso Nunez and Patrick Yurick established the studio in 2012 as an educational nonprofit, and the College Area visual-arts scene connects to exhibition spaces at Guided By Imagination, which shows and sells original artwork in the same neighborhood. Nunez's own industry credits include finished inks on the Attack on Titan Anthology published by Kodansha Comics, and that working knowledge of commercial production pipelines shapes the instruction model. Classes run for students ages seven and up, with adult enrollment available, and the curriculum follows traditional art-school fundamentals — anatomy, perspective, sequential storytelling, panel layout — applied specifically to the comic-book format. The annual San Diego Comic-Con Intensive places students on the convention floor at SDCC, where they sell prints, network with working creators, and participate in panel discussions about their artistic process. El Cajon Boulevard's position near SDSU connects the studio to the university's creative-arts ecosystem, and field trips to the SDSU Pop Culture Library are built into camp programming. Girl Scout Cadette troops book workshop sessions to earn Comic Artist Badges through a structured curriculum that produces a finished comic page by session end. Former and current students have won awards at the San Diego County Fair, the California Center for the Arts, and through the San Diego Reader. KPBS has partnered with the studio as a community collaborator for its One Book One San Diego initiative, and the nonprofit's outreach workshops extend comic-art instruction into San Diego Unified classrooms at local elementary, middle, and high schools.