Derek Mainhart lays down the comics history for his students, and gets them to draw their own, updated Yellow Kids!
http://dw-wp.com/2013/04/teaching-teens-day-3-week-5-yellow-fever/
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.
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/
So after spending yesterday helping my students struggle with their nascent, shaky ideas, revising, reworking and shaping them according to the fundamentals that make gag cartoons work, what do I...
http://dw-wp.com/2012/09/teaching-teens-week-2-day-3-how-not-to-be-funny/
Early in Mastering Comics, Jessica Abel and Matt Madden discuss ‘the Horror of the Blank Page’ (Chapter 2). Every artist who has ever put pen to paper has felt it, and likely some of your stu...
http://dw-wp.com/2012/07/teaching-teens-week-2-day-2-the-horror/
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.
http://dw-wp.com/2012/06/teaching-teens-week-2-day-1-gag-me-with-a-toon/
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...
Wondering what's coming in our upcoming new textbook Mastering Comics? We've posted our table of contents in the Resources section, and will link items in it to posts here as we make them. Can't ...
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 ...