I have been "Obsessing Over the Mini-Thesis Project." With good reason. It's due April 29th and I'm wondering if I have... again... bitten off more than I can chew. I had to knock off work on it for a few days while I went home to be "Mom&...
To see what I did on my Spring Break, take a look at my Beez In The Belfry blog post. It involved the ocean and lots of chocolate - so, in all, an excellent break! I got a lot of time to draw comics while I was in Bar Harbor. I wandered around, sat in...
We started our lesson on Non-Fiction comics with a field trip to Clay Hill Corners Farm in Hartland, VT to talk with Marty Banak and listen in as he was interviewed. He showed us around the amazing farm and his sugar shack (on wheels!). Greenhouses, bees, blueberries, even a little mushroom farm. I kept thinking,...
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...
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...
Some of our teachers are really good at that kind of slow, mind-torture that makes you want to curl up in a ball with a bag of chips, mindless tv and just gnaw on your toes. Know what I mean? No? Fine. They all pretended to take pity on us after finishing the grueling 1950&...
