Materials & handouts from my teacher training workshops…
JUMP TO: INTRO | MAKING COMICS | MINI-COMICS
INTRO MATERIALS:
Multiple Intelligences & Comics Education
Why I teach comics. 📄 (FREE PRINTABLES now available)
Artist Statement (in Comics Format)
A brief account of my methods & purpose.
Comics Workshop Handbook 📖✍
Basic comics-making materials PLUS top-secret tips, teacher guides, activities, & more… (This is the ~40p handbook for host teachers!)
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.)
Comics Terms 💬
Working definitions from the COMICS WORKSHOP HANDBOOK… ✍
What Can We Make? (& How Long Will It Take?)
📖 7 COMICS FORMATS + 🔧 Key features +⌚ Time needed!
Curriculum Connections
Sample projects from Marek’s work in various fields of study… ✍
PLANNING PROJECTS:
HOW TO: History Comics
A new UNIT OUTLINE for teachers! Each student creates a mini-comic in 3-5 sessions…
PROJECT SEQUENCE 📖🔧 8p Mini-Comics
A FLEXIBLE MAP for creating your next mini-comics project, step by step!
HOW TO: Plan a Classroom COMICS PROJECT! 📖💭
5 basic design considerations for teachers…
Comics Project Outlines
Focused mini-projects to kickstart comics creation in your classroom…
Templates
= blank guides for your next comics project!
HOW TO: Create Your Own Graphic Novel 📖 (4-Step Version)
It really IS this simple! (Sorta.) Just follow these 4 simple (& endlessly recursive) steps…
MAKING COMICS:
HOW TO… (Videos & More)
A growing series of videos showing how to doodle, create, & self-publish comics the Comics Workshop way!
1-Sheet Mini-Comics (Format)
Turn a single sheet of paper into an 8-page book.
How to Fold a Printed “1-Sheet” Mini
Turn those copies into books & give ’em out to readers!
4-Panel Comics Template
A super-simple worksheet for quick comics creation!
Show ‘N’ Tell Intro (1p Template)
D.I.Y. template / Created in collaboration with James Sturm of CCS.
Mini-Comics by Marek
⭐Hand-made, self-published comics for schools, libraries, & friends…⭐
ADVICE for CARTOONISTS 💬👁🗨 (The Mini-Comic)
Tips to help you start (& finish) your next comics project, big or small…
My Sunflower Teacher 🌻 (MINI)
Lessons from COMICS CAMP 2023’s “Ugly Sunflower Garden”!
NO MATTER WHAT KEEP… 📖 (Mini-Comic)
NON-NEGOTIABLES for uncertain times.
Lincoln’s 2nd Inaugural Address 📖 4 March, 1865
“All knew that [slavery] was somehow the cause of the war…”
NH’s Black Revolutionaries
Hundreds of African American men from New Hampshire served in the American Revolution. Their stories highlight New England’s complicated history…
How a Civil War Battle-Sketch Gets Published (MINI)
From frontline sketchbook to front porch reading…
Templates
= blank guides for your next comics project!
The Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby (Graphic Novel Series)
A graphic novel epic of the American Civil War… Drawn from actual diaries, letters, sketchbooks, & more!
