Our comics projects can take many shapes…
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FAVORITE FORMATS:
What Can We Make? (& How Long Will It Take?)
📖 7 COMICS FORMATS + 🔧 Key features +⌚ Time needed!
Single Page Layouts
In comics, page structure IS story structure.
1-Sheet Mini-Comics (Format)
Turn a single sheet of paper into an 8-page book.
QuarterFold Mini-Comics (Format)
Flexible format for mini-comics of 8-40 pages…
3-Panel Comic Strip TEMPLATE (+ Research Notes)
Here’s a blank 3-panel comics layout I use in various activities & group anthology projects…
FOR MORE IDEAS, SEE:
What’s a MINI-COMIC? 📖 (Printable)
Here’s a quick intro to MINI-COMICS — The world’s coolest self-publishing medium!
Graphic Novels
Graphic novels, anthologies, & other printed works.
How to Create a (Historical Adventure) Graphic Novel
Super-quick tour of our sources & methods for Freeman Colby Vol. 3+!
Comics Terms 💬
Working definitions from the COMICS WORKSHOP HANDBOOK… ✍
Comics Project Outlines
Focused mini-projects to kickstart comics creation in your classroom…
Mini-Comics by Marek
⭐Hand-made, self-published comics for schools, libraries, & friends…⭐
Templates
= blank guides for your next comics project!
Comic Strips
Research links & resources for COMIC STRIPS, newspaper & otherwise… (mostly from the 19th-20th centuries)
Scrolling Comics
Comics that “scroll” visually as long (semi-)continuous narratives…
