This site collects syllabi, activities, quickguides, marked-up student work, and chapter-by-chapter guides to our two textbooks. It’s for teachers running a comics class, students working through one, and anyone learning to make comics on their own.
Jessica Abel and Matt Madden are cartoonists who taught comics for more than two decades, in art schools, high schools, museums, and libraries. Jessica is a Harvey Award-winning cartoonist and the author of La Perdida, Out on the Wire, and Trish Trash: Rollergirl of Mars. Matt is a cartoonist, editor, and translator, and teaches comics and drawing at the School of Visual Arts. They were co-series editors of The Best American Comics from 2007 to 2013 and wrote Drawing Words & Writing Pictures and Mastering Comics together.
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- Book Guides, if you’re teaching or taking a course from the textbooks.
- Resources, if you want activities, syllabi, and quickguides that stand alone.