Over and above the textbook support you can find in the Book Guides section, the Resources section offers additional lesson plans, activities, and insights into making and teaching comics.
Syllabi & Lesson Plans
This section includes editable syllabi for the Drawing Words for a variety of formats, including 15-week, 10-week, and 5-day courses.
Other teachers have also contributed syllabi and lesson plans, including the Teaching Comics to Teens guide, which walks through a two-week course for teenagers, day by day.
Activities
A wide variety of activities for a single work session, solo or in a group, including jam comics, the panel lottery, drawing prompts, foldy minicomics, and a comic made with no pictures in it.
Process & Craft
In this section: Quickguides to laying out bleeds, hand lettering, page layout, and scanning. In addition, there are essays, interviews, and demo videos that go deeper into how comics get made.
What Is a “Graphic Novel?”
Jessica drew a two-page comic that explains what comics are and how to read them. This resource is freely available for nonprofit use under Creative Commons. Print it as a poster or a handout, in color or black and white, in English, Spanish, or Catalan.