Here is my original post and the responses I received from wonderful colleagues.
Thank you to all!
A teacher approached me and asked for help with getting a student more exposure
with her cartoon story. She has story boards, all of the characters, and several
episodes written. I am trying to find a student that would be interested in
drawing the cartoon. Is there any where that she could publish her story online?
Do you have any suggestions for this teacher and student? I sure would like to
encourage her and help her teacher. Any ideas for me? Thanks so much,
Tori Jensen
Media Specialist
Spring Lake Park High School
1. If it's a comic strip or gn then she should go and check out any independent
bookstores or comic book stores, many of them will consign zines for a few dollars.
That's how "American Born Chinese" by Gene Luen Yang got started, he made little
zines of the chapters and distributed them to comic book stores and book stores.
As for an animated cartoon? I would say You Tube? or a blog of some sort perhaps?
2. You can try sending her to http://www.toondoo.com
This website contains tools that will help her create the cartoon and publish it,
and provides areas for her to recieve feedback and talk about comic/cartoon
creation with other kids and teens. I think it will making a good starting place
for her to get her ideas created and out there.
3. If it is a comic/graphic novel she is wanting to do, you may want to look at
something like http://www.onlinecomics.net ( http://www.onlinecomics.net/ ) and
http://www.webcomicbattle.com ( http://www.webcomicbattle.com/ ). Note that some
of the ones on those sites may be a bit too mature for her, so I would go through
them before making a recommendation. The first one has a forum where writers and
artists try to connect.
4. Perhaps she can use the cartoon characters available in
http://www.makebeliefscomix.com to express her ideas. The 15
characters have different emotions and their are blank talk and thought
balloons in which she can write her story. This educational resource is
free and carries no advertising and is used in many schools throughout
the world.
5. If she can find someone to draw it, http://www.comicgenesis.com/ is a free
hosting site for people making comics. A lot of popular, successful webcomics have
started out on Comic Genesis (originally Keenspace).
6. she can publish online for free at www.blogspot.com
7. I am a writer who is allowed to lurk on the LM listserve, and I saw your post.
Although I do not write comics I did find the following links which may be helpful
to your student wanting to write comics.
http://www.writing-world.com/freelance/comics.shtml
http://members.aol.com/jayjay5000/WritersGuide.index.html
http://comicbooks.about.com/b/2006/04/06/a-look-into-being-a-comic-book-writer.htm
http://members.shaw.ca/creatingcomics/writers.html
http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/writing_comic_books_strips
Tori Jensen
Media Specialist
Spring Lake Park High School
8001 Able St. NE
Spring Lake Park, MN 55432
tjense@district16.org
763-783-5602
"Research shows the highest achieving students attend schools with good library
media centers."
Keith Curry Lance
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