Jessica Abel and Matt Madden on reading, teaching, and making comics
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Matt
The Best American Comics 2014 is out and new series editor Bill Kartalopoulos has carried on our tradition of posting all the Notable Comics of the year.
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Jess Worby
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.
Read more »comics, jess worby, lesson plan, student work, teaching, teens
Blog, Cartoonists, Educators, Guest posts, Lesson plans
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Matt
Paulo Patricio demonstrates a very quick and effective method to generate grids. (featuring an animated gif!)
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Matt
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 basic tools of the trade.
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Blog, Cartoonists, Comics readers, Educators, Making Comics, Students, Tools and techniques
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Jessica
Our annual list of Notable comics from the Best American Comics, with links!
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Jessica
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 contents of the next Best American Comics, edited by Jeff Smith, and with a fantastic cover by Kate Beaton, and out in September of this year.
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Matt
The haiku’s brevity and relative simplicity of rules make it a good candidate for a comics-making exercise.
Read more »#comicsedu, activity, comics teaching, creative constraint, mastering comics, poetry, poetry comics, teaching, workshop
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Jessica
Mastering Comics is nominated for an Eisner award in the “Best Comics-Related Book” category. If you are involved professionally in the comics world, as a creator, a retailer, a writer, or a publisher, you are eligible to vote in the Eisners, and we ask for your support.
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Derek Mainhart
Derek Mainhart lays down the comics history for his students, and gets them to draw their own, updated Yellow Kids!
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Matt
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 our discussion that Sunday afternoon.
Read more »book club, Ludovic Debeurme, transcript
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