This piece published on the HMU Blog today is special for me, as it is illustrated by a couple #comics I made -- including a two-page spread in which I participate in the "Great Conversation" by asking Seneca the Younger for a piece of "ancient advice."
https://t.co/fyhTc2lJto
Hey, folks who are writers and/or artists in California! Our English Department at Cerritos College publishes a literary journal, ¡Pa'lante! We are accepting submissions of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction through 12/1 and submissions of art through 2/1.
https://t.co/2BrjcjUYvy
Throwback Thursday’s old comic: Another installment from my first attempt at a strip twenty years ago, BLACK COMEDY. Let’s call this one “Three Juliets.” “#comics
Wednesday’s new comic, on Saturday: “The Masked Professor Presents: Drawn Together.” This is a foldable first-day-of-class activity, in which students create a “superhero identity” for the semester. #comics#superhero
Today’s old comic: In the tiniest of tributes to #JohnRomitaSr , I am sharing these two pages explaining how the AMAZING SPIDER-MAN newspaper strips he drew first introduced me to #comics and inspired me to write. Can’t thank him enough for that. RIP.
To celebrate the end of eight weeks working my way through François Rabelais' sixteenth-century satire GARGANTUA AND PANTAGRUEL, I've written a blog inspired by the Virgilian lots the characters cast in Book 3. https://t.co/H9WmtyH8hG #GreatBooks#Classics
Throwback Thursday’s old comic: “The Last Word,” published back in 2003 by a little local newspaper that no longer exists. Meant to be the first installment in a strip titled “Black Comedy,” starring a character called Billy Black. #comics
Wednesdays new comic: A third installment of “The Masked Professor Presents.” Mastered the old trick of turning a single sheet into an eight-page #minicomic with only one cut and a handful of folds. Here, I suggest a structure for minicomic content for my students to try. #comics
Wednesday’s new comics: My first two attempts at educational comics that are in the spirit of “seminars,” not “lectures” - a minimum of talking-head panels for the teacher and a maximum of space for students’ active contributions to our learning. #comics#socialconstructivist