This document discusses comic strips, providing their history, where they can be found, what makes an effective comic strip, and instructions for a project to create a comic strip about a superhero. Specifically, it notes that comic strips started in newspapers in the 1920s to be comical and tell stories, effective comic strips have a goal, simple drawings, characters, and 2-3 colors, and the assigned project is to make a 3-6 panel comic in Photoshop about a superhero using their powers to solve a problem.

1. Comic Strips
Graphic Design 1

2. Who is your favorite
Superhero?

4. Comic Strips: A sequence of images arranged in
an order to display brief humor or form a
narrative.

5. History
Started in black and white in the 1920’s
newspapers
Meant to be “comical”
Have been a way to tell a story, define culture,
and express a social issue for years.

6. Where can you find comic strips?
Newpaper has a daily comic strip and a colored
one on Sundays.
Today, movies gain ideas from comic strips. EX.
Marvel and DC Comics

14. What makes an effective comic strip?
• An effective comic strip has a goal
• It is simple
• It has a background story and character(s)
• 2 - 3 colors are used
• An effective comic strip’s purpose is clear

16. Brainstorming
• Work out your story
• Choose a Character
• Choose a Setting
• Decide on Colors

17. The Project
• Create a 3 - 6 panel comic strip in Photoshop
• Must have a characters.
• Must have a purpose of end result.
• Use of 2 - 3 colors.

18. • Create a story of a superhero that fixes a
problem with a super power.

19. Examples

20. Examples