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Matt Madden

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Summer Intensive: Day Three

May 29, 2009 by matt 2 Comments

Quick report after a busy day: I aimed to teach laying out a sheet of bristol board for penciling AND teaching the basics of lettering with the Ames guide as well as the basic drafting ink tools. I probably spent too much time rambling on about a quick slide show of short comics I did featuring:
Bill Griffiths’ The Plot Thickens
Gabrielle Bell’s The Hole
Kurtzman’s Corpse on the Imjin
Dash Shaw’s Cartoon Symbolia
As I tweeted, layout is simple but full of pitfalls from slipping Tsquares to absent-minded measuring–not to mention dividing up a 15″ tall page into three equally sized tiers with two 1/4″ gutters!

Laying out a 9-panel grid. The T-square is a life saver.

I decided to save lettering for tomorrow.
Instead four of the students put their work up for critique and all four were in good shape, no major re-writes except maybe whittling down from excessive length. The other three (one absent) were making good progress on their thumbs. I predict everyone in the class will finish their minis for MoCCA Art Festival.

Richard’s thumbs. The three pages up top are a revision he is doing where he is trying to condense the 11-page version below to 8 or 9 pages. Thumbnails are crucial because it’s so easy to rework stuff this way.
news and comics from the author of 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style and other works

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Comments

  1. Brian says

    May 29, 2009 at 11:27 AM

    Matt, thanks for sharing about your comic class your teaching. I am teaching a comic class this summer and I am getting lots of ideas to use.

    Your class yesterday with the post-it notes inspired a comic jam tonight with the Cartoonist Conspiracy San Francisco. Both post-it notes and index cards are great since you can re-arrange the cards to play with the timing and story telling.

    Brian
    atomicbearpress.com

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  2. Isaac says

    May 29, 2009 at 5:32 PM

    If your students really do get their minis ready in time for MoCCA, I’ll be sure to drop by and buy a copy of each. I’m looking forward to it!

    Reply

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