Cartoons About Cartoons

I love my college student friends!! They keep me inspired to not only reach creatively, but to also stand up and do the right thing.  And I applaud Facebook, because, if not for it, I wouldn't still have such good communication with my son's friends in college. Lucky, lucky me and lucky all of us for defeating SOPA! 

Anyway, if you are a trainer or a teacher, you may be aware that writing comics is a robust way to teach some topics.  Well, two of my son's friends this week posted some great stuff about writing comics.

Simmon Manning, Architechual Student at OSU, created the following graphic as a class assignment. I've added hyperlinks to the originals of both of these graphics so you can click on them to see them larger. The assignemnt is to create a "how to" comic, so he created a comic about how to create a comic.  Love it!

Jonathan Knox posted a link to the comic below on his Facebook Page.  He studies software design and art. It's Wally Wood's 22 Panels That Always Work.  As a writer, I really LOVE the verbage at the top: "Some interesting ways to get a variety into those boring panels where some dumb writer has a bunch of lame characters sitting around and talking for page after page!"

Writing for a Living in the Digital Age and a Sluggish Economy

Jason Boog from GalleyCat, (probably the book industry's leading website for insider news and gossip) claims that writers can learn from the Great Depression, according to HuffPost Books.  He outlines how writers suffered, then took to the streets to protest their plight in the 1930s, and how paperback books helped safe them.  Can digital publishing save us during the next few, hard years, he asks?





Read more about this interview at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/06/writers-great-depression_n_998995.html