Prompt: Create a “diary” comic or cartoon to chronicle an event or your new daily life. Date your art or give it a title.
A picture is worth a thousand words.
Comics and cartoons are graphic storytelling that can make us laugh, move us, captivate our imagination, speak out for our beliefs, mirror our contemporary world or present issues. A comic is a story told with sequential images. A cartoon is a single panel story. Comics and cartoons can be created with images alone or a blend of words and images. The art is in finding the best way to tell a story in the most compelling way possible.
Here’s a template panel to help you get started.
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From cave paintings to Krazy Kat, Superman and manga, graphic storytelling has had a long and lasting history. Michelangelo’s scene of Adam and God is part of the largest sequential story in picture form, covering the entire ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Some of the most sought-after contemporary artists are influenced by graphic novels and comic books. For example, as stated in Miami’s Community Newsletters (link below), the work exhibited at the Boca Raton Museum of Art tackles some of today’s thorniest issues: politics, divisiveness, immigration, racial prejudice, planetary climate armageddon, feminism, LGBTQ rights, religion, gender and pandemics.
Check out these links to see a cartoonist/illustrator’s take on storytelling, some basics on how to get started, a brief history of comics and the work of some contemporary artists influenced by all of it.
A basic: How to draw comics lesson
The Power of Storytelling in comic form
Super Brief History of sequential storytelling
History of the comic book in American culture
An exhibition presented by the Boca Raton Museum of Art featuring prominent artworld superstars, diving deep into adult realms and important global issues.
