Comic Kids is a 501(c3) non-profit whose mission is to bring art classes to underserved communities by using comics, cartoons and books as a way to inspire children in art. Children are able to take step-by-step classes learning to draw characters they know and love while also learning advanced art skills such as perspective, color rendering, scale and shadowing and shading among others.
The non-profit was founded by Miami fine art dealers Reed and Kat Horth who initially taught a weekly comic illustration class to the children of Big Brothers Big Sisters Miami starting in 2018 and later expanded the program into schools, hospitals and other non-profits. Reed, who was also in the Big Brothers Big Sisters program as a child, found his own love for reading, writing and illustrating as a child through comics. His early exposure to drawing and reading led to an Art History and Journalism degree from the University of Florida and eventually a career in fine art. The couple believed that communities that lack quality art education for children could benefit from both the art and reading that their classes covered, so they founded Comic Kids as a way to expand the programming.
Comic Kids is an art organization which teaches drawing classes to children through several different formats. Based on our partnership with Scholastic Books, we utilize popular books for our "Read + Draw" class for ages 5-9 which combines reading books and drawing characters from the books as a way to inspire children's love of the written word while teaching children how illustration styles help create the narrative. These classes foster not only a love of art and creativity, but also increase children's aptitude in, and love of, reading.
14 май 2024
