I spent 2 weeks down in Santa Cruz teaching kids about comic book art. We studied storytelling techniques and comic styles and anatomy, developing characters, and we drew A LOT. These kids ranged from 10 years old to about 13, and they blazed through my exercises, shared their stories with the class and were quickly drawing fully scripted comic pages that amazed me with their sincerity and outlandish creativeness.
During our second week, the kids took their comics to completion, voted on a title, and with my help they collaborated on a cover. The night before the last day, I took their finished art and printed a ‘zine of all their work, and remembered how much I love the DIY element of printing your own book.
Here are a few examples of the comics that came out of the class:
Saray
Here are my students drawing!
Writing notes.
On the last day (notice the Scott McCloud book on the table)
It was a pretty great experience, I finished feeling inspired to draw comics and impressed by a new generation of artists.
