Creating and Self-publishing

Your Minicomics

Blambot - Comics Grammar & Tradition. Details the use of the asterisk in dialogue, balloon tails, balloon types, sound effects, off-panel dialogue, etc.

Cartoon Law - aka, how to defy gravity.

• Bitstrips - create your own web comic strips and characters.
   
• toonlet - create characters from a selection of body parts or select a random character. Scale, rotate, & move character. They provide an artist starter pack with drawings, templates and tutorials to work from.
   
• Chogger lets you create web comics and cartoons and share them with the world. You can build comic strips by adding drawings, photos, captions and speech balloons. And by sharing your comics on Chogger, you can receive ratings and feedback on your creations.
   
• RokComics - watch, create your own, or download to phone.

• GoComics - get your Sunday morning comics here.
   
• Comics.com - read comics online
   
• Peanuts - online
   
• Hot list for teaching comics in high school. (Amazonish)
   
• Graphic Novels - recommended collection for classroom or school library (from Learning and Teaching Scotland)
   
• King Features - alphabetical list of King cartoons and comics
   
• The Universe of Comics - everything from original cartoons and comic strips to tutorials for Manga.
   
• ScrapComics - lots of resources, includes links to lesson plans and sequential art and thinking.
   
• National Association of Comics Art Educators - (teachcomics.org): includes exercises, study guides, lesson plans, and syllabi for comics in the classrooom.

Tutorial: Talking Storybooks

PowerPoint Template (and tutorial) -  use for talking books, digital stories, virtual field trip report, or whatever strikes your fancy.

• Amazing Kids - student created comics
   
• Going Graphic: Comics at Work in the Multilingual Classroom by Stephen Cary (links to a 53 pg. PDF)
   
• Comics in Education - Gene Yang - Resources for teaching with comics.
   
• Using Graphic Novels in the Classroom: A Guide for Teachers and Librarians...Bone & Jeff Smith (PDF, 16 pages).