Comic Strip Art

While studying a unit that talks about how art is a way to communicate a message, I assigned my 8th grade students to create their own comic strip. Before starting the project we looked at famous comic strip artists who have worked for companies like Marvel and DC. We also looked at modern African-American artist, James Kerry Marshall, who uses an art "form that is undervalued to show a subject that is underrepresented (African-American culture)".
To complete the project students students filled out a sheet that helped them plan a storyline, characters, title, and the layout of their boxes. After that, they outlined everything with permanent markers and colored them with watercolor paints.