Monster Workshop

This morning at 10:30 I'll be at the Kellogg-Hubbard Library for 24 hour comic book day!
I'll be running a 3 hour workshop on making comics and monster for kids.
Details about the the whole event Here

Here's a little sample of some of what I'll be showing the kids.

art by Jim Steranko, reproduced strictly for educational value,

not werewolves!
I'll be posting more later.

Fleischer scans

Last week was the Create Comics workshop at CCS.
I taught a character design class that I think went really well.
Here's some scans I used or were scanned but not used.

Popeye

Popeye and Olive Oyl

Original Betty Boop

Dog eared Betty

Another old Betty.

There's more over on my flickr.
Thanks to Dakota McFadzean for doing the scanning and drawing with me in class.

Big Read and Werewolves

So a couple weeks ago I was touring around Vermont teaching comics for Vermont's Big Read
It was a cool experience, in one week I toured about 5 high schools and saw many classrooms. The idea was that all the kids read The Things They Carried and then wrote monologues based on the idea of truthfulness, and then I came in and taught them how to make the monologues into comics. It was a pretty crazy week, and then since then I helped edit a book that's going to be printed today of some of the selected comics and monologues. I haven't seen the book yet, but I'm excited about it.
For that I also taught the same lesson over CATV, so people can learn at home, and I happen to have the video of that right here. You can watch me be super nervous in front of a camera,


Okay, wow that was embarrassing.
I've also been working on comics, Amelia of course, but also a new Werewolf Comic.
It's called Mangia La Mia Carne a.k.a Eat My Flesh and it's going to be in WEREWOLF !V (4). Which is debuting at MeCaf this year in a couple weeks. I'll be there also.
Anyway, the comic is super crazy, maybe my most disturbing comic to date. for now here are a couple samples.

(Eat My Flesh)

Wolves!

Friday!

I just finished my week at Oxbow High School, teaching comics!
Check out my week worth of visitor passes.

I had a fun time. Some of the students did a really good job.

Also, in the background of that picture is Joe Lambert, printing comics on CCS's new copier.

People's Academy

Bryan Stone, Steve Bissette and I taught at the Peoples Academy for two days last week.
A couple weeks ago Bryan and I went up there but it was a bit of a false start, but that's a story for another time. This is the story of success.
When we got into Morrisville and found the school we found ourselves on their events board outside the school,

Flyers promoting our teaching and the student's art show were strung all over the school,

Here's our original flyer from the first time,

We taught Ms. Lynch's 6th 7th and 8th grade class. She was great and her students were enthusiastic and a little crazy.
We also taught high schoolers on a voluntary basis. Not many showed up, but those that did put a lot of work in.
Here's some pics from the student's art show,


We had some time off between classes and did some site seeing. We went to Emily's Bridge, a haunted vermont bridge,


I think a lot of the kids came away from our two days having gotten something, and I know I had a good time.