In honor of Will Eisner Week the school's Schulz Library was open really late and there were fun activities and snacks. Lilah and I made bookmarks, ate cupcakes, read graphic novels and drew on the white board. There was a challenge theme of trains - you can see some of the other kids&...
I've been working on the "Rip-Off comic" - I have to combine the basic story line of the movie "Maze Runner" with my research on trailer parks. My main characters are Thomas, Brianna, Lucy, and Chuck, the cat. Here are my character sketches for a few of them... I...
Our Visiting Artist today was Zippy the Pinhead! Well, Bill Griffith actually, but he IS a cartoon character in his own comics. This was one of those visits where, even though I had heard of the famous cartoon, I was not much of a fan. But after hearing the story of its creation, and the...
It was so much fun having Lilah hang out at school with me for a few days! On Friday she was our model for Life Drawing class. I was a little worried that she might get nervous or shy at the last second, but she aced this! We broke the ice by getting there early...
Our artist today was John Martz, a cartoonist and kids' book illustrator from Canada. One idea I'd like to steal is to find a signature character (his is a robot) and use it as a daily drawing exercise - fill a sketchbook with just that character interacting with the panels of the...
What a class we had today!! Wednesday is always a long class (10-4) but we seem to be really packing it in lately. Today we did presentations in the morning about great comics writing - I talked about Amulet by Kazu Kibuishi. I particularly love this book because the main character is not only a...
