| Get your pencils ready! The Essential Guide to Comics for Kids is HERE! Comics: Easy as ABC! NOW AVAILABLE Comics: Easy As ABC! The Essential Guide to Comics for Kids "Toon books condenses the vast experience, talent, and child-friendly energy on display in its graphic novels into this comic-creation intensive...Brunetti, with his crystalline design sense (think Chris Ware for kids) was the perfect choice to spearhead this project." —Booklist s tarred review ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ A Junior Library Guild Selection Lesson Plan for Teachers... VIEW LESSON PLAN This lesson plan is designed to be used over a period of time. Part 1 is a discussion designed to encourage students, especially those who feel they’re “not good artists” or who haven’t had much experience drawing cartoons or comics. Part 2 is addressed to students. It goes through the skills in the book and suggests that children practice them. Sections can be assigned for as much time as is required or convenient, or students can work at their own pace. In the third part, students will make their own comics, starting with a four-panel strip and working up to a full comic whose length and subject matter they will choose. Meet Brunetti THIS Saturday! Meet star cartoonist Ivan Brunetti for a Comics Workshop at McNally Jackson featuring Comics: Easy as ABC! SATURDAY, APRIL 6 11:30am Location: 52 Prince Street, NYC More info here . ISBN: 9781943145348 Hardcover ISBN: 9781943145447 Softcover ISBN: 9781943145393 ISBN: 9781943145171 AND! Come see us at MoCCA SATURDAY, APRIL 6th 11am-7pm SUNDAY, APRIL 7th 11am - 6pm Location: Metropolitan West, 639 W 46th St, New York, NY 10036 Ivan Brunetti James Sturm Ben Nadler Kevin McCloskey Signings at TOON Booth C146 SATURDAY 12–12:50pm James Sturm , signing Birdsong & Ape & Armadillo 1–1:50pm Ben Nadler , signing ALL NEW The White Snake 2–2:50pm Ivan Brunetti signing ALL NEW Comics: Easy as ABC! 3–4:00pm Kevin McCloskey singing the Giggle & Learn series --------------------------- SUNDAY 1–1:50pm Ivan Brunetti signing ALL NEW Comics: Easy as ABC! 2–2:50pm Ben Nadler , signing ALL NEW The White Snake 3–3:50pm Kevin McCloskey singing the Giggle & Learn series 4:30–5:30 Ivan Brunetti signing ALL NEW Comics Easy as ABC! PLUS: PANEL with TOON Authors Brunetti & Sturm! Comics and the Teaching Artist Helvetica Room Sunday @3:00 pm Historically a self-taught discipline, comics are now taught in classes, programs, and dedicated institutions. How do teaching artists construct syllabi and curricula? What have they learned as artists that they can teach? And how does their teaching affect their own work? Comics scholar Tahneer Oksman (Marymount Manhattan College) will discuss this and more with Ivan Brunetti (Cartooning: Philosophy and Practice and Comics: Easy as ABC! ), Sequential Arts Workshop (SAW) founder Tom Hart ( Rosalie Lightning ), and Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) founder James Sturm ( Off Season ). Visit Ben Nadler at Table F208A for advance copies of his upcoming May release! The White Snake by Ben Nadler Hardcover ISBN: 9781943145379 Paperback ISBN: 9781943145386 |
Get your pencils ready!
The Essential Guide to Comics
for Kids is HERE! | |
Comics: Easy As ABC!
The Essential Guide to
Comics for Kids | |
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"Toon books condenses the vast experience, talent, and child-friendly energy on display in its graphic novels into this comic-creation intensive...Brunetti, with his crystalline design sense (think Chris Ware for kids) was the perfect choice to spearhead this project."
—Booklist starred review
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A Junior Library Guild Selection | |
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Lesson Plan for Teachers... | |
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This lesson plan is designed to be used over a period of time.
Part 1 is a discussion designed to encourage students, especially those who feel they’re “not good artists” or who haven’t had much experience drawing cartoons or comics.
Part 2 is addressed to students. It goes through the skills in the book and suggests that children practice them. Sections can be assigned for as much time as is required or convenient, or students can work at their own pace.
In the third part, students will make their own comics, starting with a four-panel strip and working up to a full comic whose length and subject matter they will choose.
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Meet Brunetti THIS Saturday! | |
Meet star cartoonist Ivan Brunetti for a Comics Workshop
at McNally Jackson featuring Comics: Easy as ABC!
SATURDAY, APRIL 6 11:30am
Location: 52 Prince Street, NYC
More info here.
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AND! Come see us at MoCCA | |
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SATURDAY, APRIL 6th 11am-7pm
SUNDAY, APRIL 7th 11am - 6pm
Location: Metropolitan West, 639 W 46th St, New York, NY 10036
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PLUS:
PANEL with TOON Authors Brunetti & Sturm!
Comics and the Teaching Artist
Helvetica Room Sunday @3:00 pm
Historically a self-taught discipline, comics are now taught in classes, programs, and dedicated institutions. How do teaching artists construct syllabi and curricula? What have they learned as artists that they can teach? And how does their teaching affect their own work? Comics scholar Tahneer Oksman (Marymount Manhattan College) will discuss this and more with Ivan Brunetti (Cartooning: Philosophy and Practice and Comics: Easy as ABC!), Sequential Arts Workshop (SAW) founder Tom Hart (Rosalie Lightning), and Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) founder James Sturm (Off Season).
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Visit Ben Nadler at Table F208A for advance copies of his upcoming May release! | |
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