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Intro to Cartooning!
Drawing with Salgood Sam
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Intro to Cartooning!
Making Comics 101
Materials lists
Student Comics!
Teachers Bio

Subjects

World Building, to be somewhere or not to be somewhere…
Zine Folding Schemes!
Movement & Wordless Conversations in Comics
Somewhere to start, on ‘Story’
Snakes Ladders & Closure: The Mechanics of Comics Art
Story Strategy: Adapting from Public Domain.
Emanata & !#@?$%!
The short and silent story
My Comics Processes!
Character and Design
Haiku, Senryū & Tanka
George Saunders On Story
Write A Short Anything…
Focus Statements & XY Formulae
An aside on Genre vs Literary
Words of advice on Character
girl#2 – a comic about tropes
Juxtaposition!
Transitions!
Like moving pictures, but not
Visual Storytelling in Cinema
Details, texture & simplicity!
The Grids
Flow, & the Eyelines!
Basic Drawing Exercises
What is Cartooning
Noodle Arms to Bigfoot: A Cartoon family
Thumbnailing layouts!
Penciling!
Inking with a Brush
Balancing with histograms
Making your own ‘Blue Lines’
Analog lettering & Photoshop?
Digital aided Lettering!
Grants, page rates, crowdfunding & $$!
Comix Jams!
How to use an Ames Guide
Old school page patching
Page aspect ratios & templates

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Publishing

Tips on making zines!

Zine Folding Schemes!

Take classes with me at Syn or Patreon!

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