7/22/08 Workshops

On July 22, the Create a Comic Project will be holding three workshops at a local YMCA. The workshops will be aimed at different age groups: 9-12, 7-8, and 5-6 year olds. The first workshop with the oldest kids will be an hour long, while the latter two are 30 minutes each.

All three workshops will be based on "Panels and Comic Layouts," with varying levels of depth and complexity. For the past few months I've been developing the CCP's material to make it more informative. This will be the trial run to let me work out any bugs.

Workshop 1

The first workshop is the main one, being a full hour and with the primary age group the CCP is designed for. It has the kids working with both pre-drawn and blank comics.

Comics use:

Applegeeks
And Shine Heaven Now
Awkward Zombie
Coffee Achievers
College Roomies From Hell
Chugworth Academy
Faking Life
Flipside
Goats
Lil' Formers
Lil' Mell
Little Dee
Mac Hall
Nothing Nice to Say
Okashina Okashi
Penny Arcade
Planet Karen
Punks and Nerds
Questionable Content
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Scary Go Round
Sketchies
Tracy and Tristan
World of Orenda
You'll Have That

This will be the first time Scary Go Round and You'll Have That are used in the comic project.

Workshop 2

The second workshop is essentially an abbreviated version of the first. It only uses pre-drawn templates due to time and fewer of them. Also, the templates were chosen to be simpler (i.e. fewer word bubbles) than those in the first workshop due to the younger ages (7-8).

Templates used:

And Shine Heaven Now
Chugworth Academy
Daisy is Dead
Diesel Sweeties
Dreamland Chronicles
Dr. McNinja
Faking Life
Flight
Goats
Jellaby
Lil' Formers
Lil' Mell
Mac Hall
Narbonic
Okashina Okashi
Penny Arcade
Phoenix
Questionable Content
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Skin Horse
Tsunami Channel

Workshop 3

The third workshop is for very young children (5-6). I won't be expecting them to write anything and will instead use nothing but blank templates. I'll explain panels and layouts briefly, then let them draw freely. This seems the best way to adapt the project to this age range.

If all goes well, there may be a couple other workshops at the YMCA before their program ends in mid-August.