July 2010

PDF of the booklet from Saturday’s class on Page Design: classsix-slideshow.pdf

I’ve left the file size large so that you can actually read the comics in there

Contents
1. Cover: Greg Shaw – Parours Pictural
2. Richard Hahn – Untitled
3. Bill Sienkiewicz – Big Numbers #2, written by Alan Moore
4. Gene Deitch – Terr’ble Thompson
5. Evan Larson – “Cupid’s Day Off”
6. Jack Kirby, colors by Stan Goldberg – Fantastic Four #1, written by Stan Lee
7. Winsor McCay – Little Nemo in Slumberland
8. Hope Larson – “Weathervane”
9. David Mazzucchelli – Asterios Polyp #2
10. Moebius (Jean Giraud) – “White Citadel”
11. Sam Kieth, colors by Olyoptics – The Maxx #31
12. Becky Cloonan – “Heads Up”
13. Bill Watterson – Calvin & Hobbes
14. Dash Shaw – Body World
15. Lynda Barry – What It Is?
16. Inside Back Cover: Panayiotis Terzis – King Top
17. Back Cover: Greg Shaw – Parours Pictural

PDF of the booklet from a few Saturdays ago’s class on Time: classfive-slideshow.pdf

I’ve left the file size large so that you can actually read the comics in there

Contents
1. Cover: Kevin O’Niell – The League of Extraordinary Gentleman: Century — 1910, written by Alan Moore
2. Inside Front Cover: Maurice Vellekoop – “Waiting”
3. Chris Ware – Quimby the Mouse
4. Dave Sim – Cerebus #68
5. Robert Crumb – “A Short History of America
6. Eleanor Davis – “The Island”
7. Gilbert Hernandez – “Love and Rockets X,” Love and Rockets #39
8. Richard McGuire – “Here”
9. Rebecca Dart – Rabbithead
10. Niki Smith – In Maps & Legends, written by Michael Jasper
11. Frank Miller – Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
12. Dave Gibbons – Watchmen #11, written by Alan Moore
13. Craig Thompson – Blankets
14. Jules Fieffer – The Explainers
15. Back Cover: Kevin O’Niell – The League of Extraordinary Gentleman: Century — 1910, written by Alan Moore

PDF of the booklet from Saturday’s class on Page Design: classfour-slideshow.pdf

I’ve left the file size large so that you can actually read the comics in there

Contents
1. Cover: Wally Wood – “22 Panels That Always Work”
2. Inside Front Cover: Derik Badman – “Flying Chief”
3. Ernie Bushmiller – Nancy
4. Dave Sim – Cerebus #68
5. Vincent Giard – “L’orielle qui manque un boutte”
6. Jaime Hernandez – “Jerusalem Crickets,” Love and Rockets #22
7. Alex Toth, Young Love #78, written by Barbara Friedlander
8. Chris Bachalo, New Avengers #52, written by Brian Michael Bendis
9. Lala Albert, “Astral Plane”
10. Kevin Huizenga – Ganges #2
11. Gary Panter – Jimbo
12. Chris Ware – Acme Novelty Library #18
13. Osamu Tezuka – Hi no Tori (Phoenix: Karma)
14. Dave Gibbons – Watchmen, written by Alan Moore
15. Inside Back Cover: Derik Badman – “Flying Chief”
16. Back Cover: Wally Wood – “22 Panels That Always Work”

When done right, comics are a cognitive whetstone, providing two or three or more different but entangled streams of information in a single panel.~Warren Ellis

BONUS: Check out Ed Piskor’s article on the passage of time in a single panel HERE, and check out Wally Wood’s “22 Panels That Always Work” HERE

PDF of the booklet from Saturday’s class on Page Design: classthree-slideshow.pdf

I’ve left the file size large so that you can actually read the comics in there

Contents
1. Cover: JH Williams III, Detective Comics #861, written by Greg Rucka
2. Chris Ware – “You Must Think I Enjoy Immersing Myself in Self Pity…” from Quimby the Mouse
3. Charles Forbell – Naughty Pete
4. Winsor McCay – Little Nemo in Slumberland
5. George Herriman – Krazy Kat
6. Harry Tuthill, The Bungle Family
7. Bill Sienkiewicz, Big Numbers #2, written by Alan Moore
8. Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes
9. Dave Sim – Cerebus #28
10. CLAMP – Clover
11. Osamu Tezuka – Hi no Tori (Phoenix: Resurrection)
12. Henrik Rohr – Storms
13. Chris Bachalo – Generation Next #4, written by Scott Lobdell
14. Kyle Baker – Why I Hate Saturn
15. Andy Bleck – Untitled
16. Dorothy Gambrell – “Marxist-Waltonist,” Cat and Girl
17. Kevin Huizenga – Fight or Run: Shadow of the Chopper
18. Marc Bell – “The DUHY Science Network”
19. David Mack – Kabuki #7, vol. 7
20. Gustave Verbeek – The Upside-Downs of Little Lady Lovekins and Old Man Muffaroo
21. Back Cover: JH Williams III, Detective Comics #861, written by Greg Rucka

The drawings become symbols that are arranged on the page (and within the panels) in the most logical way to make the reading of the story work; you place the cartooned images together in a way that does what you want them to do. You aren’t concerned with drawing a proper street scene so much as you are concerned with moving the reader’s eye around the page in the way you wish it to move. Think of the cartoon language as a series of characters (letters) being purposefully arranged to make words.~Seth

BONUS: Check out this post by Bryan Lee O’Malley (Scott Pilgrim series) for tips of page flow with word balloons and lettering!