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Teaching Comics to teens week 2 day 4: Basic Character Design

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Now that your students are approaching the final version of their Gag Cartoon, it’s time for some more drawing lessons. Nothing terribly complex, but these simple concepts can make all the difference in the work of a neophyte cartoonist, both in visual appeal and readability.

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Teaching Comics to Teens Week 2 Day 1: Gag me with a ‘toon

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In DWWP, Jessica Abel and Matt Madden begin with this basic unit of comic art—the single panel cartoon. This approach only makes sense, and I utilize it as well.

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Teaching comics to teens day 1: Using comics to tell your story

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We inaugurate a fantastic new series by Derek Mainhart, who is setting out to write up an entire year’s curriculum for a comics class at the secondary level: middle school and high school. From what I’ve seen so far, it’s going to be entertaining, well-planned, and incredibly useful.

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Drawing comics live demo: report

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At a recent conference at the University of Iowa, I drew a six-panel comic in front of six 25-minute sessions of middle- and high-school kids, one panel at a time. It was a chance to talk naturally about the order of work, the materials needed, and to show all the behind-the-scenes action.

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Social Media for Young Cartoonists Project: Week 3: Twitter

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Upon Twitter’s initial release I am absolutely baffled to the rationale behind its creation. Who needs this? Why are people compelled to share with the world, every inch of meaningless minutia that befalls them?

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Matt’s comics process I: from thumbs to lettering

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This is the first of a two-part post where I’ll walk you through the method I used to make a typical comics page.

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Weekly Twitter round-up for 2010-12-10

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A weekly round-up of our tweets about comics and education. This week: Tardi at work and a preview illo from DWWP2

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Video: lettering

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At my recent workshop at the Miami Wolfsonian Museum, I taught the students about live area, how to lay out a page, and how to hand-letter. This is the second batch of videos, on lettering.

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Video: laying out a page

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At my recent workshop at the Miami Wolfsonian Museum, I taught the students about live area, how to lay out a page, and how to hand-letter. This first batch of short videos discuss and demonstrate live area, original size, laying out a page, and laying out tiers.

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Video: Making corrections

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Matt gave a quick demo on making corrections by hand while at the Huntington Museum. He runs over several standard steps of correcting a page, and also touches on subtractive drawing and pasting down corrections on new paper.

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