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Creating Comics: The P*I.E. Process

Marek’s Current Project: The Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby

NATIONAL PARK COMICS:

(1.1) RESEARCH: Find your national park @ NPS.gov >>
Collect some facts, dates, & important details about your park:

What makes your park unique?
What’s most important for a visitor (or reader) to understand?
What other sources of information can you find?
LOC.gov: Materials: “National Parks” >>
LOC.gov: “Mapping the National Parks” >>

(1.2) RECOMMENDED = PICK A CHARACTER: Choose a “main character” who can represent your park. Think about the animals, people, & other natural elements that live at (or visit, or compose) the park. Which of them will best hold a reader’s attention?

Try cartooning your character(s) using the F.A.S.T. storytelling elements.
Could a “non-living” thing be a main character?

(2) SPLASH PAGE: Create a single-panel page to introduce your park (& main character).

Make sure it accomplishes these 3 tasks:

Catch the eye!
Teach us about a character (or setting).
Make us curious enough to keep reading…

(3) 3-Panel Story Page: I usually start my stories with the “SETTING+ACTION+RESULT” approach.

ALSO SEE:

“Dear Sister…” = A sample page from Freeman Colby Vol. 2.
“Marching in DC” = an in-depth process post about making a 3-panel page for Freeman Colby Vol. 3.

NATIONAL PARKS DAY 1 (24 May 2022)

INTRO: “CARTOON” + “COMICS”

WARM-UP: Cartooning our park “characters” w/ the F.A.S.T. Storytelling Elements! (SEE ALSO: What F.A.S.T. looks like when working with a source text >>)

SPLASH PAGE: Pick a park character & let them do their thing!

OCTOBER 2021 POSTS:

DAY 1:

Introducing important terms: CARTOON & COMICS!

Blob Doodles:

GROUP A:

Pencil:

+Ink:

GROUP B:

Pencil:

+Ink:

3-PANEL PAGES:

Setting + Action + Result:

SAMPLE PAGES:

Here are some pages from Freeman Colby Vol. 2 that use the S+A+R approach:

DAY 2:

“DAY IN THE LIFE OF…” TEMPLATE:

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