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Category Archives: Applied Cartooning

Know Your FIRST AMENDMENT Rights 📜 The Mini-Comic

A little legal mashup mini to keep in your pocket out there…

Posted byMarek30 Jan 202630 Jan 2026Posted inApplied Cartooning, comics, Comics Workshop, mini-comicsTags: 1-sheet, assembly, bill of rights, civics, comics, Comics Workshop, constitution, first amendment, government, history, mini-comics, press, protest, religion, rights, speech, United StatesLeave a comment on Know Your FIRST AMENDMENT Rights 📜 The Mini-Comic

Thomas Sims ⛓️ (Boston, 1851)

US Law in chains…

Posted byMarek19 Jan 202608 Feb 2026Posted inApplied Cartooning, comics, Mini-Comics, mini-comicsTags: 1851, abolition, antebellum, black history, boston, comics, Comics Workshop, fugitive slave law, history, law, massachusetts, mini-comics, protest, resistance, slavery, thomas simsLeave a comment on Thomas Sims ⛓️ (Boston, 1851)

Anthony Burns ⛓️ (Boston, 1854)

A President sends federal troops into a Northern city to enforce the Fugitive Slave Law…

Posted byMarek18 Jan 202608 Feb 2026Posted inApplied Cartooning, comics, Mini-Comics, mini-comicsTags: 1854, antebellum, anthony burns, black history, boston, comics, Comics Workshop, franklin pierce, history, law, massachusetts, mini-comics, slaveryLeave a comment on Anthony Burns ⛓️ (Boston, 1854)

HOUSING WE NEED 2025 Forum

Live-drawn w/ the Initiative for Housing Policy & Practice @ St. Anselm College…

Posted byMarek12 Dec 202519 Dec 2025Posted inApplied Cartooning, Comics Workshop, sketchbookTags: applied cartooning, cartooning, comics, Comics Workshop, community, housing, live-draw, manchester, New Hampshire, sketch, sketchbook, st. anselm collegeLeave a comment on HOUSING WE NEED 2025 Forum

The SEVEN YEARS WAR 🌎 North America (1756-1763)

THE CHALLENGE: Can we show the entire war, one year per page?

Posted byMarek19 Nov 202519 Feb 2026Posted inApplied Cartooning, comics, Comics Workshop, mini-comicsTags: 1-sheet, britain, colonial, comics, Comics Workshop, france, history, indian, land, mini-comics, native american, revolution, seven years war, United States2 Comments on The SEVEN YEARS WAR 🌎 North America (1756-1763)

Responsibility 🌍

To sources, readers, & our wider communities…

Posted byMarek24 Oct 202505 Nov 2025Posted inApplied Cartooning, comics, Comics Workshop, Drawing Community, ethnographyTags: comics, Comics Workshop, community, education, ethnography, history, immigration, migration, primary sources, readersLeave a comment on Responsibility 🌍

“Is It FICTION or NON-FICTION?” (2025)

Short answer: IT’S NON-FICTION. // Real answer: IT’S COMPLICATED!

Posted byMarek23 Oct 202514 Nov 2025Posted inApplied Cartooning, comics, Comics Workshop, freeman colby, How to Draw Freeman ColbyTags: comics, Comics Workshop, diary, education, freeman colby, history, how to, Non-fiction, primary sourcesLeave a comment on “Is It FICTION or NON-FICTION?” (2025)

Diary Comics: “What if we draw blank boxes?”

A simple way to open up the diary page to new ideas & wider stories…

Posted byMarek27 Sep 202510 Nov 2025Posted inApplied Cartooning, Comics Workshop, how to, sketchbook demoTags: comics, Comics Workshop, diary, diary comics, draw, drawing, education, hike, how to, katahdin, maine, nature, story, writing2 Comments on Diary Comics: “What if we draw blank boxes?”

Maine Sketchbook 🍂 (Fall 2025)

Trailside sketches from an unofficial artist residency in the Maine woods…

Posted byMarek25 Sep 202519 Feb 2026Posted inApplied Cartooning, Comics Workshop, sketchbookTags: art, Comics Workshop, creativity, doodle, drawing, environment, forest, hike, katahdin, maine, panorama, penobscot, sketchbook, sketching, travelLeave a comment on Maine Sketchbook 🍂 (Fall 2025)

HOW TO: Plan a Classroom COMICS PROJECT! 📖💭

5 basic design considerations for teachers…

Posted byMarek02 Sep 202516 Feb 2026Posted inApplied Cartooning, Comics Workshop, how to, projectTags: Comics Workshop, curriculum, education, how to, lesson, lesson plans, project, school, teachingLeave a comment on HOW TO: Plan a Classroom COMICS PROJECT! 📖💭

#SaveTheNHSCA Sketchbook

Selected sketches & diary comics from the fight to save the NHSCA (spring, 2025)….

Posted byMarek27 Jun 202501 Feb 2026Posted inApplied Cartooning, Comics Workshop, sketchbookTags: arts, civics, Comics Workshop, diary, government, money, nh, nhsca, sketch, sketchbook, state government, wondersLeave a comment on #SaveTheNHSCA Sketchbook

“QUOTE COMICS” 📖💬 8p. Template

Build a non-fiction mini from a few primary source quotes!

Posted byMarek19 Jun 202519 Jun 2025Posted inApplied Cartooning, Comics Camp 2025, Comics Workshop, how to, mini-comics, templateTags: 1-sheet, biography, Comics Workshop, education, history, how to, mini-comics, Non-fiction, one-sheet, primary sources, quote, templateLeave a comment on “QUOTE COMICS” 📖💬 8p. Template

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