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Educators! Learn how to use Pixton in the classroom. Set up your classroom and begin teaching any subject in minutes through the super-power of comics.

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Storyboard That: Easy online storyboard creation! Perfect for filmmakers, teachers, and students. Create storyboards and comics with Storyboard That today!

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There are also great fun printable activities on this page!

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The activities below are available for free download, and are to be used in educational and/or private settings. They may not be used elsewhere or for other purposes (such as for profit) unless explicit permission is granted.
Below will find: Blank Comic Book Pages, Special Activities, "Finish This Story!" Story Starters, "How to Draw..." Instructions, "Finish This Comic!" Comics, and Drawing/Writing Prompts.
More activities are being added to this page regularly, so make sure to check back for more. And if you like the activities below, don't miss my activity books, GIVE THIS BOOK A TITLE and GIVE THIS BOOK A COVER, available wherever books are sold!
Click on the numbers below to find a variety of different blank comic book pages. Each number corresponds to a different arrangement of panels on the page. Print out a few of each, or a bunch of one kind, and make your own comic!

Special Activities

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"Finish This Story!" Story Starters

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"How to Draw..." Instructions

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"Finish This Comic!" Comics

Below you will find a collection of comics that are incomplete. Look closely at the pictures, then figure out what you need to add to complete the comic!

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Drawing/Writing Prompts

Below you will find some drawing prompt activity sheets. Completed drawings can also be used as creative writing prompts.

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The activities below are available for free download, and are to be used in educational and/or private settings. They may not be used elsewhere or for other purposes (such as for profit) unless explicit permission is granted. Below will find: Blank Comic Book Pages, Special Activities, "Finish This Story!"

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This online reader has graphic novels in English, Spanish, Chinese, Russian, and French

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This entirely FREE resource allows children to read select TOON Books online...and in multiple languages! Children can listen to the entire text using "Read To Me" or activate the audio prompts on individual balloons when they need a little extra help. TOON Readers were developed in cooperation with Professor Garfield, a non-profit educational collaboration between Garfield the Cat and Ball State University.

In Multiple Languages!

For children studying two (or more!) languages, select TOON Readers are also available in multiple languages!

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French

Spanish

Russian

Chinese

TOON Readers are an excellent resource in the classroom for ESL and ELL students.

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TOON Readers | TOON Books - Just for Kids

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Read our books for free on Professor Garfield's online reader - available in English, French, Spanish, Russian, and Chinese!

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Sign up for Free Access to Graphic Novels on Your Device Via an App

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Canva is a free-to-use online graphic design tool. Use it to create social media posts, presentations, posters, videos, logos and more.

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Panel: A single frame or box that generally contains one sequence or segment of action. Pages may consist of a single panel or may contain several panels (a row of panels is called a tier, a full page illustration is known as a splash, and a spread is an image that spans two or more pages) of uniform or varied sizes. The varied sizes generally help to create pacing. Panels also may be used for different purposes. Content panels can either be word panels, image panels, or a combination of word and image panels. As a forewarning, I will use the term frame occasionally interchangeably with panel.

Gutter: The blank space between panels is "the gutter." Action that occurs here is not literally seen or experienced by the reader; rather, it is to be inferred.

Bleed: An image that extends to/beyond the edge of a page

Foreground: The panel or part of a panel that is closest to the viewer

Midground: The center of a panel - how an author uses this space helps to create tone and mood. In other words, a graphic novelist might choose to place an image off-center to create a certain tension in the text. Our eyes tend to gravitate toward the middle or midground; when items we expect to be there are not, it can be disconcerting.

Background: The backdrop of an image where illustrators will tend to place objects that help create backstory, subtext, or other additional information

Speech Balloon: Speech balloons indicate dialogue in a text (although they may serve as thought balloons/bubbles). I will use the terms speech/dialogue/word balloon or bubble interchangeably. Pay attention to the shapes of the balloon as they can serve, in a way, as form of punctuation or statement of emotion. They are part of the illustration, not merely the words. Treat their shapes and lettering as such.

Captions: Captions are information bubbles or boxes that are generally separate from the rest of the panel or page. Often, captions are used to create a voice-over technique to the action in front of us. They are also spaces for soliloquies, personal thoughts, and, occasionally, dialogue. Read them carefully.

Sound-Effects Lettering: Graphic novels often include sounds in their works. These words are often separate from speech balloons; however, like speech balloons, the fonts, colors, and lettering of sound effects are important and should be considered as parts of the text worthy of your consideration.

Figure: For the most part, we will be concerned with the basic aspects of a figure or figure drawing when we consider graphic novels. Faces, hands, feet, eyes...see how these elements are fragmented or constructed visually on the page. What is revealed? What is missing? In a graphic novel, body language can help reveal mood or tone much more easily than words, so look at figures carefully (and, remember, while many graphic novels follow humanoid protagonists, not every figure will be human in scope!).

Iconography: Iconography is both visual and images used in a work of art as well as a collection of illustrations. Artists often draw from these collected images or symbols in order to create their art; however, not every artist adheres to traditional or conventional depictions!

Chiaroscuro: Graphic novels rely on graphic weight to signify importance. One method used to create this weight is chiaroscuro - the contrast of light and dark in a work of art.

Comics: While as an adjective, the word "comic" denotes "funny" (as your Sunday morning comics would hopefully agree), comics or sequential art can be satirical, political, funny, tragic, etc.

Graphic Novel: Typically, we understand graphic novels to be a book of comics. The accuracy of this term is much-debated with some even suggesting that graphic novels exists only as a term to offer credibility to the genre. For our purposes - like with the debate over short stories, novellas, and novels - we will consider any comics of significant length to be graphic novels.

Closure: The use of prior knowledge to "fill in the gutters" and innately create narrative sequencing in a series of panels.

Cartoonist: The artist who is also the writer. We must acknowledge, however, that not all graphic novels are single author ventures. Sometimes, graphic novels will have a primary writer who plots out the basic narrative structure and dialogue. Furthermore, most graphic novels also require a letterer - someone to go in and fill in the speech/dialogue/word balloons after the writer is done working. This task may or may not be the responsibility of the artist, pending on how skillful the artist is.

Artist: The person responsible for all the artistic duties. However, as graphic novels are often highly collaborative ventures, this role might be broken down into even smaller subsets. Essentially, a penciller works as a sketch artist - laying down the figures' placement on a page, background details, setting, etc. The layout work done in the penciling stage is then turned over to an inker (who, again, may also be the artist, who may also be the cartoonist...or not, you need to read the citation information carefully). An inker darkens the work using, generally, India ink and either brush or pen. If the work requires color, this task might fall to a Colorist, who will add color to the finished pieces in order to help create the right mood or tone to the finished novel.

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Graphic Novel Vocabulary List - The Graphic Novel Classroom

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The Adventures of T.Swift and Grace VanNarwhal: Open Mic Night excerpt

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The Adventures of T.Swift and Grace VanNarwhal: Open Mic Night excerpt