Comics and Graphic Novel Art Club

This class is an unmuted, chatty, fun place to meet weekly to see friends, talk about and share comics, ideas and more! Each class will have sharing, chatting, and either instruction time, prompts or games!

I facilitate the discussion along the way, guiding students with art concepts in the context of what they are sharing and making. There is a lot of "between the lines" casual instruction during these times, including learning social-emotional regulation, respect and listening to others, and learning to feel empowered about your own ideas and thoughts! 

We analyze and practice many storytelling and art concepts, such as: character development, plot, pacing, panels, dialog, narration, perspective and composition, color, value, sketching, pencil and pen technique and more--however the emphasis of this class is on friendship and discussion. 

When students share story progress, I’ll help them think through critical storytelling components like what your character’s narrative arc might be, what obstacles stand in their way and how they resolve their story problem.

Each week we will look at/draw from/read from/discuss the following graphic novels and comics!

TOPICS SCHEDULE:


Week of Oct 7: Drawing HANDS! We can do this!
Week of Oct 14: Ghosts by Raina Telgemeier
Week of Oct 21: The Traveling Witch; stand-alone series of comics!
Week of Oct 28: Our own ghostly ghouly comics!
Week of Nov 4: Wolf Walkers, by Samuel Sattin
Week of Nov 11: Warriors, by Erin Hunter
Week of Nov 18: Draw This GAME!
Week of Nov 25: Lo and Behold, by Wendy Mas 
Week of Dec 2: Skip, by Sarah Burgess
Week of Dec 9: My Neighbor Totoro, by Hayao Miyazaki
Week of Dec 16:
Week of Dec 23:
Week of Dec 30:
Week of Jan 6:
Week of Jan 13:
Week of Jan 20:
Week of Jan 27:
Week of Feb 3:

This is an ongoing class that has no end date so long as your learners are interested! Be aware that there may be weeks "off" throughout! See you there!