Simple Tips and Rules For Making Comics (Patreon)

This is a funny little sequence that I use in my school assembly and workshop presentations to introduce kids to reading and making comics. Once we've read this together, we can start to talk about how comics work. I talk about how we read drawings, and how we fill in all the in-between images, telling parts of the story to ourselves.

I did get reprimanded for showing this at a recent school assembly, where the Principal felt that I should have made more clear to the students that they shouldn't drop anvils on each other in real life. This is what happens when old-timey Looney Tunes cartoons are no longer widely available.