Oh my!  Lest you think we do nothing at Comics Camp but sit around hunched over papers for hours on end (which we do), here are some official Comics Camp sport shots…

After a quick warm-up round of Panel Scramble (plus some morning drawing time), Catesby taught us a new game called “Cowboy-Ninja-Bear”!

  
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This year is our seventh annual Comics Camp at The Orchard School in East Alstead, NH.

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Description: Students choose and research a local historical figure, then present a biography in comics format.

Context:  This comics project provides a written and visual component to an ongoing series of local history units.  The class is also researching local and state history, constructing a class timeline, mapping local geographical features, and conducting oral history research with local resources.  Continue Reading »

We had a good crowd of family, friends, and fans at our second annual Keene State College “Kids On Campus” Comics Camp Mini-Comics Convention.  (That’s KSC-KOC-CCMCC for short!)

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Over at Keene State College, we’re inking, erasing, conferencing, and finishing our mini-comics projects in preparation for Friday’s Comics Convention.  Continue Reading »

At Keene State College’s “Kids On Campus” program, we’re spending our mornings this week drawing comics and our afternoons creating blogs about our artwork and other interests!  Continue Reading »

Here are some basic tools which belong in every comics-creating classroom:

 Flair Felt-Tip Pens — These provide a controllable, variable line with good solid black coverage.  Continue Reading »

Concentration and imagination carried the day at Teen Zine Week’s final session…

Our zines turned out to be adventurous collections of artwork, comics, writing, maps, games, recipes, and more!  At one point this week, drawing comics became a spectator sport when Continue Reading »

It’s Teen Zine Week at the Sharon Arts Center, and our intrepid young creators are busily working on the ground-breaking first issues of four new comics zines!

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Here are some photos from today’s Comics Workshop booth at ArtsALIVE-Dover:

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