Comic Books and Webcomics

• • 10 Great Kids Comics for Early Readers, Mental Floss (March 18, 2015)

  • The Golden Age of Comics, PBS History Detectives

  • 6 History Webcomics That Are Surprisingly Educational, Dorkyl.com (June 28,2016)

  • How to Make a Comic, Wikibooks

Comics History

• • 12 Longest Running Sunday Comic Strips

  • One of the first comic strips in an American newspaper was The Yellow Kid (1895-1898). Yellow Kid on a Paper Stage gives a history of the comic strip from the American Studies Program at the University Virginia

  • Jackie Ormes was the first African American woman to create a comic strip to be published in multiple newspapers at the same time (Pioneering Black Female Comic Artist to be Honored in Hall of Fame)

Creating Comics

• • Comic Creator from National Council of Teachers of English

  • Strip Designer

  • 10 Ways to Create Comics Online, from Free Technology for Teachers

  • 4 Browser-Based Tools for Creating Comic Strips

  • How to Create Comic Strips in Google Slides

  • Toontastic 3D Creative Storytelling App 

  • Scratch Animation Tool

  • Creating Comics and Cartoons, from National Council of Teachers of English