Saturday, July 25, 2020

Issue #5 - The End of an Arc

We worked hard to finish our comics today. With the deadline looming, we focused on inking our pencil lines and coloring as much as we could. 

Forest Fire completed her first arc, deciding to go black and white with minimal color highlights that will make sense in her next issue (she is taking comics serialization seriously and is planning additional chapters to her story). 




The Border chose a bold strategy, opting to complete the panels she thought would be easiest first and saving the hard panels for today. She still has some work to do, but The Border between Story and Art has been blurred into one seamless comic.




Detective Samurai is still tracking down all of the storytelling facts, but he has left you, intrepid reader, with several clues. Like any good sleuth, you should be able to start piecing together the elements of the crime...uh...plot with these eight panels. When he finally finds the missing text, the true nature of the story will be revealed to the world. 





Doctor Doodle lived up to her moniker this week, producing some beautiful artwork to complement her puns and prose. With one full page complete and another completely inked, she has diagnosed a whimsical meme-based story and has a written a powerful prescription for getting back to normal.




Keep an eye on these authors and artists. They have more graphic tales to tell. That's it for this arc of the story. Thank you for following along and being part of our adventure this summer. We are going our separate ways for now to star in our own stories, but we will be ready when the world needs us to Assemble! once again.



Comics Creators! Up, up, and away!

Thursday, July 23, 2020

Issue #4 - Pencils and Panels and Plots, oh my!

Scripts and pencils have been sharpened, and now it's time to give life to our layouts. We used our entire two hours to put pictures and prose to paper. Our creators' talents were on full display as authors and artists etched and sketched their way toward comic completion. We'll be ready to ink, letter, and color tomorrow. Stay tuned for tomorrow's final issue.







Wednesday, July 22, 2020

Issue #3 - Writing Wednesday

It's time to delve into a full story. After taking some time to rummage through one of Mr. Wilson's short boxes, we read a handful of Free Comic Book Day issues to get a feel for panel and page layouts. We workshopped ideas for a 1-2 page comic and spent the rest of the day writing and refining our scripts. Some of us even had time to start thumbnailing. Tomorrow we're off to the drawing board. 





Excelsior!

Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Issue #2 - Telling a Longer Tale

We've upped our game today to include a beginning, middle, and end. After a YouTube introduction to a successful comics writer/artist and his process, we delved into a three-panel project. The plan sounded simple: write a script, draw thumbnail sketches (rough draft) to see how the panels might look, make some revisions, and create away. We weren't all able to finish, so some of us have a little homework (but homework has never been more fun). 😃





Monday, July 20, 2020

Issue #1.5 - One-Panel Puns

After a brief discussion of panel composition, thumbnailing, and how Western comics readers track from left to right and top to bottom, our creators were tasked with developing a joke or pun into a single-panel comic. Some online research, sketching, editing, and revising led to these POWERFUL PUNS:






Stay tuned for Day 2, true believers...

Issue #1 - Creators Assemble!

It's a new year, and a new group of comics enthusiasts are braving worldwide crises to write, edit, revise, storyboard, sketch, draw, letter, ink, and color a full comic story in a single bound...uh...week. These mighty creators have assembled to take on challenges no ordinary heroes could handle alone...

Doctor Doodle

The Border

Forest Fire

Detective Samurai

Funnybone

Welcome to the team, comics creators!

Issue #5 - The End of an Arc

We worked hard to finish our comics today. With the deadline looming, we focused on inking our pencil lines and coloring as much as we could...