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(NOTE: this comic is laid out manga-style, so read the panels right to left!)

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

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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

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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!

I remade this post into a page, since I’ll be updating it over time, adding links and books I think are worth checking out: http://kevinczap.com/artofcomics/reading-list/.

I’ll be sure to let you know where there’s something new!

Here is a PDF of the booklet from Saturday’s class on Style: classtwo-slideshow.pdf

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

Contents
1. Cover: Bill Sienkiewicz, Big Numbers #1, written by Alan Moore
2. Hank Ketchum – Dennis the Menace
3. David Mazzucchelli – Asterios Polyp
4. Robert Crumb – “The Young Crumb Story,” from American Splendor #4, written by Harvey Pekar
5. Gerry Shamray – from American Splendor #5, written by Harvey Pekar
6. Mark Beyer, “City of Terror”
7. Brian Chippendale, Ninja
8. Dave Sim – Cerebus #56
9. Floyd Gottfredson – Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse
10. Eddie Campbell – From Hell, written by Alan Moore
11. Jack Mendelsohn – Jacky’s Diary #1
12. Bill Sienkiewicz, Big Numbers #1, written by Alan Moore
13. Dan DeCarlo – “Dugan the Dead-Beat Ghost,” from Homer the Happy Ghost #21, written by Stan Lee
14. Jack Kirby – X-Men #1, written by Stan Lee
15. John Byrne – (Uncanny) X-Men #135, written by Chris Claremont
16. Osamu Tezuka – Hi no Tori (Phoenix: Karma)
17. Naoko Takeuchi – Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
18. Yuichi Yokoyama – Travel
19. Al Columbia – Pim & Francie: The Golden Bear Days
20. JH Williams III – Detective Comics #860, written by Greg Rucka (inset: David Mazzucchill – Batman: Year One, written by Frank Miller)
21. Gary Panter – Jimbo in Purgatory
22. Back Cover: Eddie Campbell – From Hell, written by Alan Moore

There are times when a beautiful images makes sense as good storytelling in ways that are not easily explained. ~David Mazzucchelli

Slow Wave – Jesse Recklaw, and you!

A frequently updated webcomic that engages its readers by having them submit story ideas based on their dreams. A very cool idea with a solid presentation.

Hey everyone,

Thanks for a great first class! I’m really looking forward to working with each of you over the next 7 weeks. I’m really grateful for this opportunity.

Here’s a link to download the updated class syllabus: Art of Comics Summer 2010 Syllabus

Here is a PDF of the first slide show from Thursday night: classone-slideshow.pdf

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Here’s the contents of Booklet/Slideshow #1:

1. Cover – James Kochalka, “The Horrible Truth About Comics” from The Cute Manifesto
2. Eddie Campbell – How to be an Artist
3. Ikea instructions
4. Charles Shulz – Peanuts
5. Osamu Tezuka – Hi no Tori (Phoenix: Karma)
6. Vincent Giard, “L’oreille qui manque un boutte”
7. Troylloyd, “Dial ‘MM’ for Meme Merde”
8. Henrik Rehr – “Storms” (not in your booklets)
9. Lauren Albert – “Astral Plane”
10. Chris Ware – “I Hate You, and I’m Sure of it This Time…,” from Quimby the Mouse
11. Dino Buzatti – Poema a Fumetti
12. Kyle Baker – Why I Hate Saturn
13. Scott McCloud – Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (10 pages)
14. Dan Clowes – “Jimmy Jupiter, Intergalactic Pedant,” from An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons & True Stories Vol. 2
15. Robert Crumb and Harvey Pekar – “How I Quit Collecting Records And Put Out A Comic Book With the
    Money I Saved,” from American Spendor #4
16. Eddie Campbell – How to be an Artist