Comic Strips

Graphic Design 1
Who is your favorite
Superhero?
Comic Strips: A sequence of images
arranged in an order to display brief humor
or form a narrative.
 History
Started in black and white in the 1920s
newspapers
Meant to be comical
Have been a way to tell a story, define
culture, and express a social issue for years.
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
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 strips purpose is
clear
 Brainstorming
Work out your story
Choose a Character
Choose a Setting
Decide on Colors
 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.
 Create a story of a superhero that fixes
a problem with a super power.
Examples
Examples