Comic Strip Printables

Comic Strip Layouts

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by Holly

A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions.¹

Expressions and action in comic strips are represented or hinted at with lines and shapes, which makes learning how to create expression and action with lines and shape important. Comic drawing books might offer a guide for this and there are many comic drawing books to choose from. One that is especially good is Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels. If you would rather have curriculum, Alpha Omega Press has at least two books [ 1 & 7 ] that teach some elements of cartooning.

Page Contents
Templates
Set One
Set: 2008
Related Pages
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A printable with which a child can practice facial expressions
pdf Cartoon Faces

Printable Cartoon Panels

Typically the cartoonist will draw his own panels as needed, but for the budding cartoonist, some pre-drawn cartoon templates might be just the thing he needs to get started.

Comic Strip Templates - Set One

These print with thin black lines with a narrow space between panels. The 2008 set (below) has more space between panels. The paper may be turned in any direction (no true top-side)

Squares

Big Squares

Big Squares with Story Line

Big Squares Big Start

Big Squares Big Ending

Big Beginning

Big Middle

Big Ending [leading to]

Big Ending

4 Rows

2008 Comic Strip Layouts

These print with thicker black lines [than the files above] and with a decent space between panels.

Related Pages at DonnaYoung.org

Color Sonic

I drew this for my children years ago and handed it to them. I challenged them to color it based on certain guidelines. I can't remember what I said to them now, it was so long ago. To show them, I colored one and mine is the one pictured. When they were finished, it was obvious to me that they needed further study in this field or they were too young for the assignment. At the time they were 7 and 10.