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Category Archives: Feature

“Healing from Trauma”

A powerful quote from Jonathan Shay’s ACHILLES IN VIETNAM:

Posted byMarek05 Jan 201530 Jul 2024Posted inApplied Cartooning, Comics Workshop, FeatureTags: community, healing, Jonathan Shay, quote, therapy, trauma, veterans3 Comments on “Healing from Trauma”

Bakhtin: “Deepest Communion”

Drawn from a quote in the introduction to D. Soyini Madison’s “Critical Ethnography”…

Posted byMarek02 Dec 201402 Apr 2025Posted inApplied Cartooning, comics, Comics Workshop, ethnography, FeatureTags: community, consciousness, D. Soyini Madison, ethnography, Mikhail Bakhtin, quote, socialization, the otherLeave a comment on Bakhtin: “Deepest Communion”

Build Your Own 8-page Mini

So you’ve drawn your 8-page comic (including covers & inside pages)… Now let’s PUBLISH it!

Posted byMarek17 Nov 201424 Nov 2024Posted inApplied Cartooning, comics, Comics Workshop, Feature, Mini-Comics, mini-comicsTags: cut, diy, fold, mini-comics, photocopy, publish, scissors, staple1 Comment on Build Your Own 8-page Mini

The Applied Cartooning Manifesto (CCS / 2014)

Drawn with James Sturm ~ Summer 2014

Posted byMarek25 Sep 201430 Jun 2023Posted inAC Resources, Applied Cartooning, comics, Comics Workshop, Feature, Mini-Comics, mini-comics, ShopTags: applied cartooning, art, art education, careers, ccs, Center for Cartoon Studies, cheese, james sturm, manifesto, mice1 Comment on The Applied Cartooning Manifesto (CCS / 2014)

Hotel Infinity: Quiet Hours

You don’t always want to encounter infinity in a strange hotel …

Posted byMarek06 Apr 201413 Oct 2025Posted incomics, Feature, mathTags: David Hilbert, George Gamow, hotel infinity, infinity, math, number theory, paradox, R. L. Moore2 Comments on Hotel Infinity: Quiet Hours

2×2=5 Talkin’ Blues (Video)

Finally, a video version of our earlier all-comics proof … But could it be true? (Can you spot the error?)

Posted byMarek05 Apr 201413 Oct 2025Posted incomics, Feature, math, videoTags: Abraham Lincoln, algebra, Lewis Carroll, math, music, paradox, video, woody guthrie2 Comments on 2×2=5 Talkin’ Blues (Video)

Ama tu ritmo / Love Your Rhythm (Dario)

A passionate Dario poem with a mathematical pulse …

Posted byMarek23 Jan 201422 Jun 2018Posted inDario, Feature, math, Nicaragua, poemsTags: fractal, love, math, Nicaragua, poem, rhythm, Ruben Dario4 Comments on Ama tu ritmo / Love Your Rhythm (Dario)

A Roosevelt / To Roosevelt (Dario, 1904)

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Posted byMarek30 Dec 201313 Jan 2021Posted inDario, Feature, Nicaragua, poemsTags: George Washington, indigenous, Nicaragua, Nimrod, roosevelt, Ruben Dario, Tolstoy, United States, Walt Whitman5 Comments on A Roosevelt / To Roosevelt (Dario, 1904)

How to Create Comics

A Comics Workshop classic mini.

Posted byMarek20 Jul 201021 Mar 2023Posted inComics Workshop, Feature, mini-comicsTags: brain, Build a World, creative process, creativity, fantasy, ice cream, mini-comics, stick figures3 Comments on How to Create Comics

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