making comics fast: design thinking as a tool to approach narrative learning

Making Comics Fast

PF Anderson, Joyce Lee, Nancy Benovich GilbyEnriching Scholarship 2016

IdeaWhat if we mashed up DESIGN THINKING and a simplified COMICS rubric?

Image credit: <https://openclipart.org/detail/181394/radio-announcement>

Background 1DESIGN THINKING is … what?

What is design thinking?

<http://dschool.stanford.edu/dgift/>

Background 2COMICS rubric?

What do you mean, “comics rubric”?Scott McCloud: Understanding Comics <http://scottmccloud.com/2-print/1-uc/>

EdX: The Rise of Superheroes and Their Impact On Pop Culture: <https://www.edx.org/course/rise-superheroes-impact-pop-culture-smithsonianx-popx1-1x-2>

10 things before you start a comic <http://www.makingcomics.com/2014/09/24/10-things-start-comic-graphic-novel/>

How to start your own comic <http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Start-Your-Own-Comic-Book/>

What’s your contemporary social issue?

… or, in other words, what’s your purpose?

On Purpose: <http://www.dungbeetle.org/>

Make Health: <http://makehealth.us/>

A tell B (5 min)

B tell A (5 min)

Who’s your hero or protagonist?

Who’s your hero?

Character strengths

Character flaws

Origin storyOption 1: Partner & collaborate (15-20 min)

Option 2: Take turnsA tells B (10 minutes)B tells A (10 minutes)

Who’s your villain or antagonist?

Who’s your villain?

Character strengths

Character flaws

Origin story or symbolism

Option 1: Partner & collaborate (15-20 min)

Option 2: Take turnsA tells B (10 minutes)B tells A (10 minutes)

What’s your story or plotline or scene?

What’s your story?

Set the scene

Buildup

Conflict

ResolutionOption 1: Partner & collaborate

(15-20 min)Option 2: Take turnsA tells B (10 minutes)B tells A (10 minutes)

Pull it all together!

Templates

SUPERHERO BLANK TEMPLATES

Heromachine <http://www.heromachine.com/> | <http://www.heromachine.com/2008/01/27/free-blank-figure-templates/>

JufsAnne: <http://www.jufsanne.com/kinderboekenweek/2011/kinderboekenweek2011downloads.html>

STORYBOARD BLANK TEMPLATE <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1a7QS9BEnPxPlNQRlf9YBfnefS0e5PbEz6MZ3vGLYh34/edit?usp=sharing>

Storyboard Blank

DESCRIPTION Action in Frame (Hero) Action in Frame (Villain)

Storyboard Example

Next steps

Alternatives to being an artistUNESCO: How to create and publish a photonovel <http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001821/182121E.pdf>

ETechLib: Cheap and Easy Ways to Make Comics or Cartoons for Digital Storytelling <https://etechlib.wordpress.com/2013/05/14/cheap-and-easy-ways-to-make-comics-or-cartoons-for-digital-storytelling/>

Alternatives to being an artist

Apps!

Contacts

PF Anderson / @pfanderson / <pfa@umich.edu>

Joyce Lee / @joyclee / <joyclee@med.umich.edu>

Nancy Benovich Gilby / @nabgilby / <nabgilby@umich.edu>