What superhero does the world need right now? A collaborative comics class exercise

4-Panel Comic (a.k.a #relatable)

I was intrigued by Scott McCloud’s idea of people not having a definite idea of what they look like (even mirrors aren’t 100% accurate), so the less detail something has, the easier it is for the readers to identify with the characters. On the contrary, the background is…

Diary comics for students

Following the advice of the great Ivan Brunetti, I am once again making my students do diary comics, one 3 to 4-panel comic a day for one week. I am also doing them myself. I made up this list of questions for them to ponder before they start. What do you think?

The one course that helped me self publish my comic

How I Learned I CAN Draw (and that probably everyone else can too)

It was a dark and stormy night. I sat in the corner of the room sipping on a Manhattan, the wreck of a maraschino cherry resting on the bottom of the glass. The drink was bitter, in fact too bitter, disgustingly…

Autobiographical Comic

I was in CRWR 308 at UBC, and this is the final comic I produced for our autobiographical assignment. Both pages detail different hobbies that I enjoy, folding origami and beading. While they can be read as stand-alone pieces, the pages are meant to be taken together as a “compare and…

Diary Comic

Days Four and Five

Creating diary comics is such an interesting switch in writing strips. Normally I do a weekly strip, featuring silly but lovable (hopefully) characters with a main character (me, as a “witness”) who takes it all in. In doing diary comics, however, I got a lot more…

jabbed in my face parts

Hi! I’m Justin from CRWR 208.

Doing diary comics really got me into a nice space of seeking out stories in everyday life. Though I’m not really comfortable with posting a few of them online, I was pretty happy with this one about dentist music. (CW for needles.)

Art galleries are full of it.

This is a one page comic I made that was a part of a friend’s art show at the Little Mountain Gallery. As a…

FEAR NOT

This is a comic I did for a comic writing course. It was the final assignment, and while I’m not entirely happy with the end result (what…