AUBURN — Auburn Public Library is welcoming a new addition to its “No Laughing Matter: The Pulitzer Prize and the Art of Editorial Cartooning” workshop series.

Cartoonist Mike Jordan of Big Red A Press will be at the library at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 13, to lead a hands-on workshop called the “The Art of Cartooning.”

Jordan will give a short talk on sequential art and the changes in dynamics between a one-panel strip, a three-panel strip and beyond. Attendees will then create a three-panel strip by committee with Jordan’s guidance.

Mike Jordan was born in Lewiston. By age 7, he had created his own “funny” book, a Mad Magazine rip-off which lampooned his favorite comics, movies and television programs.

By high school, he had begun creating longer, more-complicated comics, based no longer on movies and TV but mostly on his friends and schoolmates. Jordan said that rather than college and on to a good, steady job like dock work or accountancy, the next several years saw the inception of “The Midnight Angels” and “Iron Ian” and the involvement in two different ground-floor comics. Jordan publishes much of his work online.

The library events are supported by Maine Humanities Council and the Pulitzer Prize Centennial Campfires Initiative, through a special grant category for Maine-based organizations seeking to use Pulitzer Prize-winning writing, journalism, photography, drama or music composition in their 2016 programming.

FMI: 207-333-6640, www.auburnpubliclibrary.org.