The haiku's brevity and relative simplicity of rules make it a good candidate for a comics-making exercise.
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/
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/
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/
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/
Incredibly action-packed 5-day comics workshop in the Twin Cities: a report and samples of student work.
I had the pleasure of meeting Howard Chaykin last week in Minnesota for the MCBA's SpringCon. I was particularly interested to hear that he's been teaching in an unexpected venue: the Marvel Bull...
I'm an art teacher from Long Island who specializes in teaching cartooning. Every summer for the past six years, I've had the good fortune to teach an intensive cartooning course at an institutio...
http://dw-wp.com/2010/08/guest-post-utilizing-dwwp-in-a-cartooning-curriculum/
I just finished co-teaching a three-week class at the School of Visual Arts. It's a pre-college intensive summer course in cartooning: 25 students, 4 teachers, one assistant, 250+ pages of comics...
http://dw-wp.com/2010/08/the-kids-are-all-right-svas-pre-college-intensive/
Over the last two years, Tom Hart and I have been offering an advanced comics seminar that I believe is a new and fruitful addition to comics education. A description and some reflections.
http://dw-wp.com/2010/07/a-new-course-idea-the-extended-comics-workshop/