How To Make A Comic Strip! (Patreon)

Hey gang! I wanted to show you this little comics-making station I set up for the kiddos for Summertime at the Mill on Saturday. 

My default is "autobio comics with cats," so I rolled with it  since it's fast and easy.

If you've been following my garbage garden (garden updates coming soon!), you know that I love reusing packing material & trash. This giant piece of shitty chipboard was the biggest flat surface I had in the house, so it became the base for my poster.

I was going to make 1-, 2-, 3-, and 4-panel comics from scratch but then I realized there are NEWSPAPERS in my house, so I let the syndicated professionals do the job.

This poster was a good excuse to practice drawing Ollie and Pip!

I was helpfully informed by DC writer Karla Pacheco that what I call "pointers" most of the industry calls "tails" so I altered that later!

Pip didn't like this dig on him by Ollie so he took it out on the shitty chipboard later.

There was space in the middle for a gratuitous large drawing of m'boys, so...

Look how proud Pip is. 

I papered the table below with leftover newsprint from a roll I nabbed at my newspaper job SEVENTEEN YEARS AGO.

(The yogurt containers aren't as old. Perfect way to separate pencils and pens!)

I wrote the directions right on the paper.

Gotta keep those communal erasers corralled. 

I think I printed 30 of these three-panel templates. By the end of the day all of them had been used! Success! Here is by far the best comic strip (ever) made, by second grader Aeris.

I have since quit comics, no other comic will hold a candle to this, why try.

The event was super fun and I'll definitely be using this poster again in the future! It  might have more Pip bites in it next time.

Thanks for your patience with me last week! Planning for & promoting the event took quite a bit of time. I hope the four-page ET update made up for the wait a little. :)