School of comics is my first large project, that still exists today. The concept is simple: to open a platform on which young artists are taught to draw comics. When I started in 2015, comics publishers complained that it seems that talented artists do not know how to apply their abilities comics — the scripts aren't terrible, the font is not readable, the frames in the comic book are placed correctly. We created a place that trained young people to create interesting comics correctly.

Training usually lasts from October to April, i.e. about six months. Before the new year, students study theory, and make their first vague steps in the world of comics, and after the new year, they work closely on their graduation projects — comics on a given topic.

But we don't just teach. Funding allows us to publish a collection every time (in hardcover!) comics students of the school. For project participants, this is an opportunity to publish, and for the curators -- to understand whether the participants have learned well. Over the five years of the project's existence, more than 200 people have been educated, and now the fifth stream is being launched.

The project continues to exist in 2020: now not only in St. Petersburg, but we have also opened a branch in Moscow. In parallel with offline education, since 2018, the school is also available online for all residents of Russia and beyond. This is a separate stream where children learn by watching webinars, performing creative tasks, and so on. Of course, we understand that you can't open a branch in every city, so online streaming has become a good solution for us.