Matt has put together a heavily-illustrated post about teaching using 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style.
The haiku's brevity and relative simplicity of rules make it a good candidate for a comics-making exercise.
In anticipation of the upcoming 24-Hour Comics event in Angoulême, France, cartoonist and teacher Dan Berry shares his pointers on how best to prepare yourself for this rewarding challenge.
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/
This Saturday, October 1, is 24-hour Comics Day, and Matt takes the opportunity to reminisce about the repercussions of his 24-hour comic experience, many moons ago.
http://dw-wp.com/2011/09/24-hour-comics-day-present-future-past/
A series of variations and transformations of what is perhaps the single most-parodied page of comics ever, the famous "Insult that Made a Man out of 'Mac'" comic used to advertise the Charles At...
Here's a cool activity where you make a little fold-out comic book out of a single sheet of paper.
On my blog I just posted about a new comics-making constraint I invented for a recent workshop. The basic idea is that you need to make a comic that uses all the colors of the rainbow—but in bl...
http://dw-wp.com/2010/12/roygbiv-a-one-page-seven-panel-comics-challenge/
A jam comic for two players which could be a good warm-up exercise or time-filler in a comics class or workshop..
http://dw-wp.com/2010/12/tic-tac-toe-comics-a-comics-jam-for-two-players/