Some Thoughts on Stick Figures and Teaching Comics Workshops

I teach comics workshops to children, teens, and adults.

Most of my students are new to writing and/or drawing, and come with equal parts excitement and anxiety.

I feel like my role is to make the creation process fun and accessible, while allowing the students to pursue whichever styles/genres/approaches interest them most.

Week-long comics workshops start with a short autobiographical comic, then we start talking about the power of stick figures.

(This video is from my Instagram story, after making 50 custom Stick Figure Portraits.)

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