COMIC BOOK SCHOOL is a fun way to share knowledge with kids as well as adults who aspire to create their own comics. Whether it is teaching classes for the Town of Orangetown's Youth Recreation programs for 3rd–8th graders, as a guest speaker on a podcast, or as a guest at one of Buddy' Scalera's Comic Book School convention panel discussions, teaching people how to write, draw and construct their own stories, is something I enjoy.
In this video (above) Darren discusses the daunting tasks involved in turning your ideas into real comics. Eternal Con, in Long Island, NY, Aug 2021
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Darren & Buddy at the After Hours Booth at NYCC 2008
Buddy Scalera, Sean Chen and Darren Sanchez, NYCC 2019
Darren and Fabian Nicieza at a comic writing panel, New Jersey Comic Expo, 2018.
Sanchez has taught kids how to make comics since being a guest speaker in a 6th grade classroom in 2009. Today he teaches Comic Book 101, for the Orangetown Recreation program in New York.
Dry Erase art often awaits the kids when they come into class.
Developing your ideas into reality. A panel at Eternal Con 2021.
Comic Book School at the town Summer Camp, in 2020 was outdoors.
Katherine Brown, Buddy and Sean Chen take a bow after another successful Comic Book School panel at NYCC 2018.
NYCC 2015
NYCC 2015, with Genie the Genius artist, Matteo Stanzani
Dry Erase Halloween art.
Robo Squirrel fights off the invading army of giant ants, as he intercepts the fleet on the moon.
A class creation. ZOT
A cover from the character creation day in class. TATIO stands for "Totally Awesome Trio of Inanimate Objects"
Another super hero team created in class. Each character created by a student. Their name... BTTA, stands for "Better than the Avengers!"
Another comic class creation. Adventures of the 5th Grade.
More dry erase art. This one is Flufferina.
Comic book art is about sequential storytelling. This is a 6-panel page with a hastily sketched one-page story.
An Anime-styled page by one of our very talented young students.
Another page from her sketchbook. She is going to be amazing.
Character creation and the making of a superhero team.
A peek at the notes on the board.
Drawing Action... in a dry erase board lesson.
More quick dry erase art, done while the kids are busy drawing their assignments.
Another peek at the notes on the board.
This anatomy of the Hand lesson was a special request of one class.
A classic reference for any comic artist. A great aid that even pros reference on occassion.
Old school stylized Title lettering examples, also shown in class.
Some excellent examples of lettering captions, shown in class.
Matteo Stanzani draws Genie the Genius for a young fan.
Art by Matthew Tow was shown in class to fans of the Foxwood Falcons comics.
Foxwood Falcons was a favorite of the kids in class. This is a new cover by Darren Sanchez.
A digital sketch by Darren Sanchez of Robbie and Kelly from Foxwood Falcons, used in class.
Another digital sketch from class shows the Hulk on the cover of a fictional childrens' book. Art by Darren Sanchez
A fun digital drawing by Sanchez.
Cover by Darren Sanchez for a project called, Time Traveler's Inn.
Sanchez created the art for a children's book about the migration of the humpback whales. Here is the cover, shown in class.
This is an interior page from Ori the Whale. Art by Darren Sanchez
Here are some never seen pages from the unpublished Foxwood Falcons #3.
The class appearance made the website news for South Orangetown Middle School.
Darren Sanchez speaks to a 6th grade class about creating comics.
