Story Telling Through Pictures with Andy J Pizza
May 02, 2026
Online event
Find your story seeds and the images you need to illustrate them! Illustration isn’t drawing; it’s storytelling through pictures. You are a storyteller! But how do you know what stories you have to tell, and how do you find the right symbols to illustrate these ideas and help them come to life? In this talk, we will explore storytelling basics, how symbols work in classic stories, and how Andy thinks about these things in his own books.
Author-Illustrator Andy J Pizza
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Andy J. Pizza is a New York Times Bestselling author-illustrator of many books for children and adults such as "Invisible Things" and "A Pizza with Everything On It". Pizza is also the creator of the popular podcast Creative Pep Talk which Vanity Fair says “is every bit as bright and effervescent as its title would lead you to believe”. For the past 15 years, Pizza has worked as a commercial illustrator for a wide array of top tier clients like Apple, X-Box and The New York Times. He lives in Columbus, Ohio, with his wife, 3 kids and 2 dogs.