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Comics Challenge: Inktober Prompts

Jess Bradley’s Inktober drawing for the prompt ‘STRETCH’

Lots of cartoonists have been taking part in Inktober– an annual challenge that involves making an ink drawing every day of the month. Inktober may be coming to an end, but the drawing prompts provided on their website are useful all year round.

This comic challenge makes use of Inktober-style prompts to make a drawing game that is a perfect warm up activity for comic club.

You will need: Paper, pens, a small bag or box, scissors, timer/stopwatch (optional).

STEP 1: Print out and cut up the prompts provided here: Prompts 01 

Prompts 01

You can also use this blank sheet to create your own list of prompts: Prompts 02. Put the words in a small bag or box.

STEP TWO: Take a sheet of A4 paper and fold it three times, then unfold, to create eight spaces for drawing in.Folded page

STEP THREE: One person picks a prompt word out of the bag or box and reads out the word. Draw the first thing that pops into your head when you hear the word. If you want you can use a timer and have everyone draw a picture in one minute or thirty seconds.

STEP FOUR: Repeat until you have filled up your page (or several pages).

 

Comic Club Spotlight with the Comic Jammers!

Hannah Sackett talked to school librarian Rhiannon Cook about her new comic club:

Name of your Comic Club: Drawing Comics Club

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Where do you meet and how often? We meet in the school library, once a week on a Thursday.

Average number of members: At the moment we have 8 members but next term we should be back up to our full membership of 10 pupils.

How long have you been running? This Christmas term was the first term the club has run due to changes in the library opening hours, however, we are looking forward to running as long as there is demand! At the moment there is a waiting list and lots of pupils are keen. We have lots of comic readers throughout the school.

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Tell us about your club: As we are fairly new, we have used the first half of term to find our way a little through comic jams, draw-a-long videos, the How to Draw series on Guardian Kids, ideas from drawing books we have in the library and of course worksheets and inspiration from the Comics Club Blog. In the second half of term we have been brainstorming for our own comic; voting on a name (Comic Jam), tag line, ideas for front covers and drafting our panels before creating a final storyboard each. We also had a school visit from Neill Cameron in October which inspired us a lot!

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Do you have a comic club activity you’d like to share: One of our favourite activities was the Make Your Own Superhero/villain exercise on the Comics Club Blog. What I would like to do next time is extend this activity to a life size version! With the club in 2 groups of 5, use a roll of art paper to draw around a pupil and the group must add the clothes, features, powers of the hero/villain and label to present to the group.

Which comics should we be reading right now? Some of our favourite comics right now are: the Phoebe and her Unicorn series by Dana Simpson, Mega Robo Bros by Neill Cameron, and the Hilo series by Judd Winick.

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What are your plans for the coming year? As the club is so popular, our members will be changing once a term to give other keen comic artists a chance. The current members (or Comic Jammers) are very determined to keep making their own comics and are even discussing continuing Comic Jam outside of school hours!

Thanks so much to Rhiannon and the Comic Jammers for telling us about their club. We’ll be catching up with the club again over the next few months to hear more about their favourite comics.