Jess Worby shares his lesson plan for a five-week comics unit he taught to teens in a studio art class at LOMA, a public art high school on Manhattan's Lower East Side in spring 2014.
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...
Our annual list of Notable comics from the Best American Comics, with links!
Every year, we get requests from teachers wanting to know what will be in the new Best American Comics before it comes out, so as to plan their classes. Herewith, therefore, is the table of conte...
http://dw-wp.com/2013/07/best-american-comics-2013-table-of-contents/
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 the fall of 2011 we did a comics reading series at the Brooklyn Public Library. The third book we read and discussed was Lucille by Ludovic Debeurme. Here is a slightly edited transcript of ou...
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/
A complete list with links of the Notable Comics 2012 from the Best American Comics, and a giveaway of some of those very books! Comment to enter the drawing.
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/