Comic Strip Creation: Illustrating Unique Stories

Learn how to develop, draw, and digitize your sketches to create a successful illustrated comic strip for social media

• Introduction
• Creating Your Comic’s Identity
• Making a Comic
• Getting It Out There
• Final project

Cartoonist Jimmy Craig is passionate about comics: reading them, buying them, and creating them. His love for drawing, writing, and animals led him to create They Can Talk in 2015, a playful digital comic strip enjoyed by over 1 million online followers.

Creating a successful comic strip requires standing out from the crowd. In this course, learn to develop the unique theme, voice, and style of your own comic strip. From establishing your ideas, to sharing them with an audience, Jimmy covers his creative process for building the identity for an original comic strip that reaches a global audience.

• About Me
• Influences
• What Will We Do in This Course?
• Introduction to Comics
• Identifying a Theme
• Finding Your Voice
• Defining Your Style
• Writing Your Comic Commandments
• Writing
• Layout
• Digitization
• Social Media
• Monetizing Your Work
• Sticking to a Schedule and Staying Inspired
• Comic Strip Creation: Illustrating Unique Stories