Limber Up! It's Cartooning Workout Time!
August 19, 2021 7:07 PM Subscribe
The Center for Cartoon Studies (previously, previously, previously) is offering a free, self-directed One-Week Cartooning Workout eCourse. Just remember: "The awful comic you make is always going to be better than the perfect comic you never make."--Inky Solomon, CCS Legend
Other interesting offerings from the CCS (available as $0+ pay-what-you-want downloads):
* "Created for middle and high school students, Let’s Talk About It: A Graphic Guide To Mental Health is a lively and educational comic book that destigmatizes the conversation around mental health."
* "This Is What Democracy Looks Like, A Graphic Guide To Governance. This short comic guide helps to bring democracy back to the hands of the people by explaining what democracy actually means and how the whole thing works."
* "Health and Wealth: A Graphic Guide to US Healthcare. The goal of this concise and engaging 32-page comic is to provide a baseline understanding of the healthcare system so people can feel a little less intimidated by its complexity and cruelty, and more empowered to advocate for themselves and those they care for. We hope Health and Wealth will generate discussions around healthcare and healthcare reform."
Other interesting offerings from the CCS (available as $0+ pay-what-you-want downloads):
* "Created for middle and high school students, Let’s Talk About It: A Graphic Guide To Mental Health is a lively and educational comic book that destigmatizes the conversation around mental health."
* "This Is What Democracy Looks Like, A Graphic Guide To Governance. This short comic guide helps to bring democracy back to the hands of the people by explaining what democracy actually means and how the whole thing works."
* "Health and Wealth: A Graphic Guide to US Healthcare. The goal of this concise and engaging 32-page comic is to provide a baseline understanding of the healthcare system so people can feel a little less intimidated by its complexity and cruelty, and more empowered to advocate for themselves and those they care for. We hope Health and Wealth will generate discussions around healthcare and healthcare reform."
There's a really cool link in the inspiration section of the first lesson to Mark Laliberte's 4Panel Project. Those experimental 4-panel strips are probably the coolest things I've seen all week.
posted by forbiddencabinet at 10:37 PM on August 19, 2021
posted by forbiddencabinet at 10:37 PM on August 19, 2021
extremely delighted to see Cucumber Quest show up as the first example "real comic" in there
posted by DoctorFedora at 10:53 PM on August 19, 2021
posted by DoctorFedora at 10:53 PM on August 19, 2021
I made a webcomic back in college. It was pretty crappy and I'm glad no trace of it exists on the internet (I hope), but it was useful in terms of practice. Nothing you ever do is wasted. I've been thinking about maybe trying again with a better idea, it might work out better now.
posted by JHarris at 12:35 AM on August 20, 2021 [1 favorite]
posted by JHarris at 12:35 AM on August 20, 2021 [1 favorite]
Do we need to draw the turtle, the mouse, or the pirate?
posted by leotrotsky at 6:03 PM on August 20, 2021 [1 favorite]
posted by leotrotsky at 6:03 PM on August 20, 2021 [1 favorite]
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This is incredibly exciting. I can't wait to work through the lessons.
Thank you so much for posting this, MonkeyToes! And thank you for all the previously links - I had not seen ANY of those posts before. (And one of them mentions The Cartoon Art Museum in the thread, which had fallen off my radar after they lost their premises, and now I see they've got a new location and are open again! Hooray!)
This is all utterly fabulous. Thank you!
posted by kristi at 8:09 PM on August 19, 2021