The holidays are coming! And we have a great gift idea for you: a beginning cartoonist's starter kit! To get your special person started in comics, just use our checklist to buy him or her the ba...
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 diff...
http://dw-wp.com/2013/01/teaching-comics-to-teens-week-2-day-4-basic-character-design/
This is the second of a two-part post where we walk you through the method Matt uses to make a typical comics page.
http://dw-wp.com/2012/06/matts-comics-process-ii-the-inking-process/
This is one of several features we had to drop from Mastering Comics for length, and will be posting here. For more like this, and better, check out the book! (For another sample of the kind of s...
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 w...
http://dw-wp.com/2012/04/teaching-comics-to-teens-day-1-using-comics-to-tell-your-story/
Our editor on Drawing Words & Writing Pictures is the multi-talented Mark Siegel. He’s the creator of Sailor Twain, and often posts interesting observations on art and craft. A few months back ...
If you were starting a comics studio program from scratch (and with a decent budget!), what would be the optimal comics studio set-up for your students?
http://dw-wp.com/2011/09/crowdsourcing-build-a-better-comics-classroom/
Kevin and Zander have collaborated on a number of comic books. This wouldn't be unusual, except that they've developed an intensive style of collaboration, where each works on every stage of the ...
http://dw-wp.com/2011/05/video-kevin-cannon-on-intensive-comics-collaboration/
Hilary Allison came in one day beaming because she'd cracked the Nib-Holding Industrial Complex's iron grip on her student budget, and I encouraged her to throw a post together about it for you, ...
http://dw-wp.com/2011/04/what-the-nib-holding-industry-doesnt-want-you-to-know/
What this book does, strikingly well, is it teaches you how to be a webcartoonist. From website design issues specific to comics, to personal branding, to dealing with fans (and making more of th...