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Making comics, Lynda Barry

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Making comics

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Lynda Barry

"For more than five years the cartoonist Lynda Barry has been an associate professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison art department and at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, teaching students from all majors, both graduate and undergraduate, how to make comics, how to be creative, how to not think. There is no academic lecture in this classroom. Doodling is enthusiastically encouraged. Making Comics is the follow-up to Barry's bestselling Syllabus and this time she shares all of her comics-making exercises. In a new hand drawn syllabus detailing her creative curriculum, Barry has students drawing themselves as monsters and superheroes, convincing students who think they can't draw that they can, and most important, encouraging them to understand that a daily journal can be anything so long as it is hand drawn"--Provided by publisher

On 'seeing things' -- Making comics 1. Materials, methods, classroom culture ; Seeing what is there: gazing ; Commentary ; Attendance ; Seating ; Grades ; Pens ; Paper ; Daily diary ; Too scared to draw ; Attendance card format ; Lesson ; Exercise: 4 drawings in 12 minutes ; Attendance card ideas: draw yourself ; Student drawings ; Question: who made the first comic? ; Section 1: Are you my monster? ; Exercise: close your eyes and see me ; Exercise: blind bones ; Scribble monster jam ; Exercise: monster draw near ; Why make monsters? ; Exercise: Monster, this is your life ; Exercise: two hands at once ; Exercise: tandem drawing ; The daily diary ; Exercise: time ; Exercise: draw yourself as Batman ; Important: whole bodies ; Exercise: file folder animal jam ; Exercise: face jam ; Homework: pattern and solid black and a little color ; Assignment: photo booth --Section 2: Character jam and other jams. Exercise: let's boop it! ; Exercise: whole life diary ; Reading aloud in class ; Response: drawn together ; Exercise: character jam ; The gang is all here ; Assignment: son of character jam ; Assignment: make something happen ; Extended exercise: basic 4 panels ; Diary variation: four box diary : Diary variation: sister image diary ; Diary variation: animal diary ; Exercise: animal ad lib ; Quick exercise or daily diary: You see it when it sees you ; Diary or exercise: triangle diary ; Diary exercise: checker diary --Section 3: Come to me: story time. Draw me a story ; Exercise -- assignment: instant book review ; Assignment: Copy cat book review ; Basic X-page ; Write it up ; Words and phrases ; Exercise: drawing a life ; Where is your memory? ; Stories ; The walk ; Choose a walk ; Make it a map ; Variations on a theme ; Exercise: point of view ; Checklist: homework assignment format ; Exercise -- homework: story filter ; Interview comic ; Non-photo blue pencil ; Exercise: drawing boss round robin ; Exercise: character 'zine ; Nine boxes ; Variations ; Story house: adapted from an exercise by Dan Chaon ; Let's make a comics kit ; Last day of class: suddenly drawn to the dance floor