ALPHABETICAL BY TITLE:
“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! (No staples or glue required.)
“Drawing Freeman” / Historical New Hampshire (Vol. 71 No. 1) - Full color cover article on drawing Stick Figure Civil War comics.
“Freeman Colby’s Illustrated” #2 (1863) - Available SPRING 2019 with all pre-orders of FREEMAN COLBY VOL. 2 via http://www.MarekBennett.com ...
“Honesty Comics” / August 1861 - When swearing a oath in 1861, HONESTY is the most important thing -- Even when you're breaking the law.
“HOW TO Comics” 🔧📖 8p. Template - How to make a HOW TO mini... Share your expertise + show us how to do something new!
“Journey Comics” Template - Use this basic sequence to create an original travel / migration / adventure mini!
“Non-Fiction Comics” 🔎🌎 (2024 Edition) - This mini template helps you turn lists of FACTS into engaging NARRATIVES...
“Teaching Artist” Mini 📝💭 - Here's a mini-comic I drew in preparation for a recent panel discussion ("Getting Gigs & Making Work") at Plymouth State University...
“Totalitarian Belief” 💭 Hannah Arendt (1951) - The Past is indeed past, but it offers us lessons for today -- IF we pay attention.
“USCT: United States Colored Troops” (1863-1865) 📖 8p MINI - "In a contest with oppression, the Almighty cannot take sides with oppressors." ~ Frederick Douglass
“WE THE PEOPLE” D.I.Y. US Constitution Preamble (8p TEMPLATE) - What are the original GOALS of the US government? And what do they look like when YOU cartoon 'em?
“Woogums Goes for a Walk” (1-Sheet / 8 Page) - A desktop quick-draw, from blank paper to finished 8-page mini-comic...
1779 Petition to End Slavery in NH - WORK IN PROGRESS based on the text of an important 18th century antislavery document...
1st AMENDMENT MINI: Tinker V. Des Moines (1969) - Can a public school PROHIBIT armbands (a.k.a. symbolic speech)?
1st AMENDMENT MINI: West Virginia V. Barnette (1943) - Can a public school COMPEL students to salute the flag? 
4th AMENDMENT MINI: Safford V. Redding (2009) - Does the 4th Amendment prohibit school officials from strip searching students?
ADVICE for CARTOONISTS 💬👁🗨 (The Mini-Comic) - Tips to help you start (& finish) your next comics project, big or small... 
ALGO ADENTRO / Something Inside - Far from home and family, a migrant laborer discovers the survival power of art... 
Anthony Clark: Revolutionary War Veteran - Fiddler "Tony" Clarke was quite a local celebrity, & lived to the ripe old age of 100+! 
August 1864 PREVIEW 💥 City Point Explosion - Colby writes home between battles... (Originally drawn for VOL. 4 / Now planned for VOL. 5)
“Round[the]Table” Creative Placemaking Companion - 12-page booklet/mural featuring ideas & wisdom drawn from community conversations!
Bicknell’s Thrush: “Exploring A Wicked Conservation Problem” (Visual Notes) - Live-drawn during a conference @ PSU...
Bobby Draws: A Journey - How can disabled artists draw comics if, for example, they can't use their hands, move their bodies, or even describe their story ideas? Some of my students taught me how ...
Build Your Own 8-Page “Quarterfold” Mini (Video) - When you've drawn your story, and you're ready to self-publish it... 
Build Your Own 8-page Mini - So you've drawn your 8-page comic (including covers & inside pages)... Now let's PUBLISH it!
Caesar Porter: Revolutionary War Veteran - "In his youth, he was brought to Litchfield (NH) & held as a slave..."
Caesar Wallace: Revolutionary War Veteran - Caesar Wallace served 3 enlistments in Mass. & NH regiments...
Civil War Cartoonist Mini: “Artists to the Front!” - Featuring the Civil War battlefield artists whose work inspired Freeman Colby Vol. 3...
COMICS SERIES Ideas 📚 (Printable) - Keep your STORIES going (& your READERS reading) all summer long...
Comics Workshop Handbook 📖✍ - Basic comics-making materials PLUS top-secret tips, teacher guides, activities, & more… (This is the ~40p handbook for host teachers!)
COMPOST COMICS #2: HOW TO Compost! - Dig into our SUPER-SIZE SUMMER SPECTACULAR w/ hands-on tips for starting your own backyard compost pile... 🌱
D.C.+Virginia Sketchbook (Fall 2019) - 32 pages of diary comics = a behind-the-scenes look @ Rabbit's footwork & research for Freeman Colby Vol. 3!
D.I.Y. Declaration of Independence / Preamble (TEMPLATE) - Let's take a moment to cartoon the core ideas of the US government ~ You might be surprised by how it looks!
How a Civil War Battle-Sketch Gets Published (MINI) - From frontline sketchbook to front porch reading...
How to Draw Up a Lesson Plan - Mini-comic drawn to accompany a CCS Applied Cartooning seminar on teaching comics:
Indian Stream Republic 📖 (PART 1: 1783-1832) - 8-page tale of lands, laws, & national identity in the Great Northern Woods...
José’s Journey: “Painful to Remember” - One immigrant's quest to find work and dignity in the United States.
JUDE HALL #1: Revolutionary War Veteran - "New Hampshire's best-known black soldier of the American Revolution." ~ G. Knoblock
JUDE HALL #2: 4 Sons of Jude Hall - Some of the many risks & challenges facing "free" black families in 19th century New England... 
Lead Paint Alert! (Mini-Comic) - How to identify & manage household lead contamination from lead-based paints. / (12 pages)
Lincoln’s 2nd Inaugural Address 📖 4 March, 1865 - "All knew that [slavery] was somehow the cause of the war..."
Lincoln’s SPECIAL MESSAGE to Congress (4 July, 1861) - A warning about Democracy, from a wartime president.
MAZE MINIONS™ Monster Coloring Book - Ready to color + sure to inspire new characters for the Maze Minions RPG!
MAZE MINIONS™ RPG 📗 Official RulesZine - THE ADVENTURE BEGINS! Play a monster, protecting your dear dungeon (& dreaded boss) from pesky adventurers... (A supplement to the MAZES T.T.R.P.G.) 🐲
MINI-HANDBOOK🌻(Comics Camp 2025) - Quick tips-n-tricks pages for all your summer creations! (= a smaller 16p handbook for host librarians, teachers, families, & artists.)
Mrs. Potato’s Classroom🥔 - The latest in this fun-filled school series... Bringing a little joy to a frowning cookie-classroom!🍪
MYSTERY ISLAND!🏝️w/ the Bunny Gang - Dreamed up, drawn out, & tested w/ my 2nd grade comics students...
NH State COMICStitution 📖 Bill of Rights / Articles #1-12 - The official "Live Free And Draw" adaptation of the original 1784 text...
Paul Long: Revolutionary War Veteran - Paul Long (Rye, NH) escapes from slavery & serves in the Revolution...
Peleg Runnels: Revolutionary War Veteran - 1778: Enlisted in the 1st Rhode Island Regt. / "Absolutely made FREE & entitled to all wages."
PERSPECTIVE COMICS #1 👁 Brunelleschi Draws (Florence / 1415) - Filippo Brunelleschi re-discovers ancient techniques of linear perspective... (Drawn w/ 5th graders @ a CLiF residency!)
Peter Pomp: Revolutionary War Veteran - When we dig around in New England history, we often find slavery serving as an engine behind the scenes, powering the local mythology of small towns…
PLOPPY #2: “Oops.” - Ploppy's got pollution problems, & the pasture -- maybe even the whole planet -- is in peril!
PLOPPY #3: Methane is my Super-Power! - Poop Fairy reveals Ploppy's hidden power... & initiates A QUEST!!
PLOPPY #4: Into the Digester! - Ploppy enters the bewildering netherworld of the biodigester, & meets some very hungry microbes...
PLOPPY #5: Hydrolysis💦 - In which Ploppy discovers the transformative powers of a nice warm bath (with plenty of bacteria)...
Prince Whipple: Revolutionary War Veteran - Served 2 enlistments while enslaved by a signer of the Declaration of Independence!