Mac McCool Graphic Novel Premium Workshop

What's totally awesome?

 
Today was the last day of Mac's workshop. He spent the time critiquing each person's page of panels or page of a graphic novel script. For some, it was their first time drawing a comics page, but all felt it had been a great place to learn and experiment.

For readability, it's all about bubble placement, baby.

Mac critiqued story arc, text, pacing, as well as bubble design, inking, color, panel style, final art, and lettering. He took great care to translate art or comics terms that may be foreign to authors or even some illustrators.

Everyone put their art up and we all had a chance to check stuff out. These were some of my favorites:

Eric Sailer of New York

Elizabeth Oh of Hawaii

Lucy Mara Taylor of California

 

 

Brooke Boynton Hughes of Colorado

And here's Brooke holding another assignment about character silhouettes.

Please, please, let's do this again! And, HEY! Did you spot the celebrity in the first picture?

SCBWI TEAM BLOG Pre-conference Interview: Mac McCool

For our latest pre-conference faculty coverage, TEAM BLOGger Jaime Temairik offers a two-part interview with graphic novel creator and illustration and sequential art instructor Mac McCool.

Mac will be offering a Premium Workshop on WRITING AND ILLUSTRATING CHILDREN’S GRAPHIC NOVELS at the Annual Summer Conference.

Here's a bit from part one of Jaime's interview with Mac:

YOU GUYS! The Summer Conference is three weeks from today. I am thrilled with this year's line up of sessions, especially the redonkulously awesome premium workshop options.

If you've ever thought about writing or illustrating a graphic novel, there are still a few spots open in the GRAPHIC NOVEL MASTER CLASS lead by Mac McCool.

Who is this mysterious Mac McCool? What does he read? How does he feel about comics on the iPad? What's the skinny on his Graphic Novel sessions? And most importantly, what does he think about the Summer Conference Saturday Night Taco Bar? Well I know all this now, and more, because I got to interview him! See below.

Click here for the full interview on Jaime's blog CocoaStomp.

Click here for part two.

As as Jaime mentioned above--there is still space available in Mac's graphic novel workshop. Click here for Annual Summer Conference registration information. (You don't want to miss Mac McCool or the taco bar!)