Scarlet Betch Comic Werkshop: Chapter 2!

The subject of this week's weeerkshop is Chapter 2 of Jessica Abel and Matt Madden's Drawing Words and Writing Pictures: "Every Picture Tells a Story, But Only If It's A Gag!" Plus, my brother submitted some work for us to look at, Jason showers us with adoooorable Wiccan fanart, and the music theme is Club Tracks!

Scarlet Betch's Comic Weeerkshop - Episode 1

It's the first ep of our journey working through Jessica Abel and Matt Madden's Drawing Words and Writing Pictures! I split our discussion into three parts: discussing chapter 1, discussing the "classwork" we did, and discussing our homework assignments. The first part is posted below and parts two and three are embedded after the jump!

(Also, since J and I were just at Toronto Pride this weekend, all the music is Toronto themed, besides one Lady Gaga track. Special thanks to The Cliks, Diamond Rings, and the rest of their Toronto-born brethren for ROCKING!)

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Drawing Words & Writing Pictures - A Scarlet Betch Perpetual Nomad

Here at scarletbetch.com we love comics: we love readin' 'em, we love betchin' about 'em, and we love makin' 'em! But whereas we have years (yeeeaaaars!) of experience with the reading and the betching, making comics is something that we've only recently started dabbling in. Which is why we thought it would be an excellent experience to work through a book on how to make comics!

For the next 15 weeks Jason and I will be sketching our way through Jessica Abel & Matt Madden's Drawing Words & Writing Comics. The book has a term for a regularly-meeting group of people working through the book together -- they call it a "Nomad". Jason and I figured, since we'll already be nomads meeting on Skype, why don't we record it and post it to our youtube channel so that anyone on the 'net from now to the year Infinity A.D. can be a part of our Nomad?

We'll be aiming to do a chapter a week, at which point we'll post a discussion of the chapter and share our homework assignments. As a cyberspace co-nomad we'd love for you to give feedback on any work we feature, and we'd love to give feedback on any work you'd let us feature!

Expect our first video early next week, and if you'd like to pick up the book and read the first chapter, feel free to share your homework assignments with us at our e-mail address or on Google Docs!