You may have been wondering what your camper's have been working on this week in art. So far there have been no updates, no pictures. Well have no fear! Your campers are learning about an amazing art form; COMIC BOOKS.
If you want to talk to your kids about the history of comic books, then you have to start a while back: in 1842. Back then American presses published the first comic book prototype, a hardcover novel. From there comic books grew in popularity. First they reached the newspapers, a few decades later they took on mainstream publishing. In 1933 comics officially entered "The Golden Age", a time when super-heros ruled the skies and no evil lasted longer then five pages.
Fast forward a few years, and when talking about comic books in class the best way the camper's could relate was through the new Batman, Spiderman, and Superman movies. (Over a century of comics, pretty cool right?)
Once the campers figured out what a comic book was they were ready to go for it.
No one said making comics was easy though! Today we took time designing our setting and our characters. Some of the most memorable include an all out show-down between King Broccoli and King Celery on the Ketchup Sea; and a comic book explaining how squirrels grow bushy tails (by finding Golden Acorns of course!).
In the meantime if your camper is ready for some comic book mania heres a few links to help them out!
http://marvelkids.marvel.com/comics
http://marvel.com/games/play/34/create_your_own_comic
http://marvel.com/games/play/31/create_your_own_superhero
http://www.kidscomics.com/Home/1/1/60/1046
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