Summer activity pages for libraries & families…
HOW-TO HANDBOOK⭐(Comics Camp 2024)
Quick tips-n-tricks pages from our summer library workshops!
📄 SINGLE PAGES:
Hand-Made Comics 📃 (INTRO PAGE)
For COMICS CAMP 2025 ⭐ A quick intro to making COMICS at home (or anywhere else)!
August 1864 PREVIEW 💥 City Point Explosion
Colby writes home between battles… (Originally drawn for VOL. 4 / Now planned for VOL. 5)
How to Fold a Printed “1-Sheet” Mini
Turn those copies into books & give ’em out to readers!
COMICS SERIES Ideas 📚 (Printable)
Keep your STORIES going (& your READERS reading) all summer long…
STORY IDEAS for your Mini-Comics 📖 (Printable)
Creative approaches that I’ve seen artists using in my classroom…
What’s a MINI-COMIC? 📖 (Printable)
Here’s a quick intro to MINI-COMICS — The world’s coolest self-publishing medium!
P*I.E. 🥧 (The COMICS CAMP Printable!)
Bring out your BEST WORK… with P*I.E. (Pencil + Ink + Erase)!
HOME-MADE COMICS Intro
Here’s a quick intro to making COMICS at home (or anywhere else) this summer…
Weekly Mini-Comics Challenge!📖✨
⏱️1-2 pages per day = 📚4-5 MINIS per MONTH! = ☀️15+ MINIS all summer long!!!!
Sketchbook STARTERS! 📖💡
Quick doodle-ready ideas for all those blank pages…
Summer Sketchbook 📖🌞 INTRO!
Here’s how I use a sketchbook all summer long (or ANYtime, really)… {MESS + MYSTERY + MISTAKES + ATTENTION = DISCOVERIES!}
CLASSIC COMICS CAMP RESOURCES:
Comics Workshop Handbook 📖✍
Basic comics-making materials PLUS top-secret tips, teacher guides, activities, & more… (This is the ~40p handbook for host teachers!)
How to Create Comics
A Comics Workshop classic mini.
ADVICE for CARTOONISTS 💬👁🗨 (The Mini-Comic)
Tips to help you start (& finish) your next comics project, big or small…
Templates
= blank guides for your next comics project!
What Can We Make? (& How Long Will It Take?)
📖 7 COMICS FORMATS + 🔧 Key features +⌚ Time needed!
“1-Sheet” Mini-Comic 📖 Set Up Video + Printables
How to turn a single sheet of paper into a full 8-page blank book, ready to draw (& self-publish) any story you can imagine!…
Superhero Team Generator
A fun “swappy” way to create ENTIRE UNIVERSES of new character, storylines, & more…
HOW TO: Big Picture Doodle
This time-lapse doodle technique generates UNPREDICTABLE poster-size creations! / FROM THE 2024 HANDBOOK
HOW TO: Mirror Doodle!
Here’s one of my favorite surprise DOODLE techniques… It always feels like a moment of discovery.
HOW TO: Noticing Doodle
A simple sketchbook doodle that helps me feel relaxed & grounded…
How to COMICS JAM!
A FUN STORY GENERATOR for 2+ players!
How to Draw Eyeballs
Artwork from the mini-comic, “How to Draw Your Very Own EYEBALL ARMY!!” …
HOW TO: Create Your Own Graphic Novel 📖 (4-Step Version)
It really IS this simple! (Sorta.) Just follow these 4 simple (& endlessly recursive) steps…
“SUMMER DREAMS” Mini-Comics ☀️💭
Check out these wild “COMICS JAM” minis, drawn with my amazing summertime students!
