Kids are Awesome
A collaborative comics exercise that seems to be the inevitable result of hanging out with children.
What you need:
Paper
Pen
Post-It Notes
Kids that want you to draw
Instructions:
Legally obtain a child or two by borrowing them from someone you know, or renting them from a local provider.
Ask the child (or the children) to help you with a comic. What should it be about? Where should it take place?
Start drawing and continue asking for prompts as you go. What is so and so doing? What do you think they find? Can you stop picking your nose and wiping it on my arm?
Remember that these prompts are a starting point. You are welcome to deviate from what your overly entitled child (or children) demand. This is your comic, you’re simply using them for the ideas in their still-developing brains.
Also, do not involve too many children or this relaxing collaboration will turn into a living nightmare as the children bicker and fight until you can’t take it anymore, return them, and seek therapy.
Also, also, get the kids working on their own comics or involved in an activity they enjoy, like crushing insects or drawing on the walls, so that they give you a little biT OF SPACE! JUST MOVE BACK! STOP BUMPING MY DRAWING ARM! AAAGH!!
Take a deep breath.
Keep going until you lose your cool or the comic is done.
Example:
Thoughts and credit:
I’ve written these instructions in a rude way. I genuinely love making comics with my kids and their friends.
This comic was made with my daughter Elodie and our friend’s kid, Sol, both of whom were five at the time.
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