Intro to Comics

Tools & Materials

✏ Here are some of my favorite (simple, effective, & cheap) comics-making tools! ✅ MUST-HAVES + ☑ NICE TO HAVES + 👍 ALSO USED…

Why I teach comics. 📄 (FREE PRINTABLES now available)

Sample projects from Marek’s work in various fields of study… ✍

Working definitions from the COMICS WORKSHOP HANDBOOK… ✍

Basic comics-making materials PLUS top-secret tips, teacher guides, activities, & more… (This is the ~40p handbook for host teachers!)

Quick tips-n-tricks pages for all your summer creations! (= a smaller 16p handbook for host librarians, teachers, families, & artists.)

📖 7 COMICS FORMATS + 🔧 Key features +⌚ Time needed!

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!…

When you’ve drawn your story, and you’re ready to self-publish it…

The 16-PAGER is my favorite way to share full stories as mini-comics… ✔ Longer than a 1-SHEET! ✔ Fits on a single piece of…

In comics, page structure IS story structure.

= blank guides for your next comics project!

A growing series of videos showing how to doodle, create, & self-publish comics the Comics Workshop way!

Super-quick tour of our sources & methods for Freeman Colby Vol. 3+!