Jam Comics!

Today was the first day of the Making Comics Workshop. I'm not sure everybody was there, and I don't know if everybody who was there is staying, but we started anyway. First I went over the basic terminology and the anatomy of a comics page. I showed the group some original pages from the 70's and 80's with hand lettering and corrections and all. (thanks to Anthony's Comic Book Art for giving me a deal at the Baltimore Comics Convention.) I gave out some supplemental material including Wally Wood's "22 panels that always work" (Thanks Wally) and then we made jam comics.

Everyone drew a panel and then passed it on so that each page had 9 different artists. The stories were a mess, but we learned about the pencil of might among other things. Next up - Small Press Expo.