For a teacher

A thank-you comic for a teacher.From the class, or from one grateful parent.

A card gets read once. A comic with the class as the cast and the teacher as the hero gets kept: the year's running jokes, the field trip, the day the beaker fizzed over. Panel & Ink writes and draws it in a look that suits them, rated Everyone, ready for the last day of term.

A science teacher in goggles and a lab coat holds up a fizzing beaker to a classroom of children while two of them hold up a crayon drawing of her as a caped hero with a beaker on her chest — Drawn in the Silver-Age Halftone look

How it goes

Four steps to issue #1.

The premise
Write the year as the teacher would never tell it: the class as a crew, the teacher as the hero, the thing they'll all remember. Choose Everyone as the rating on the first step.
The look
Silver-Age Halftone makes them a superhero, Sunday Funnies a strip for the staff-room wall, Pop Art something loud enough to frame.
The cast
Give the teacher a model sheet — from a photo if you have their permission, or from a description — and add the kids as cast with their parents' permission, or let the studio imagine the class.
The issue
One issue is the card. Put the year's moments in the comic desk's ideas box, read the script, ask for another take on any panel that misses, and download it to hand over on the last day.

Start from one of these

Make one of these yours.

Press start and the premise lands in the box of a new comic with its look already picked. Change every word, or the look, before anything is drawn.

No. 1
A mild-mannered science teacher is secretly the only thing standing between the town and a weekly disaster, and every issue her class works out one more clue to who she really is.
In the Silver-Age Halftone look
Start with this idea
No. 2
A class of twenty-eight plots the perfect end-of-year surprise for the teacher who never once lost her temper, and every plan goes wrong in exactly the way she warned them it would.
In the Sunday Funnies look
Start with this idea

More premises to start from

Looks that suit it

Draw it in one of these.

Or in any of the twenty-eight. A comic picks one look on its second step, and every panel of every issue keeps it.

See all twenty-eight looks

The letters page

Questions, answered.

Do I need photos of the kids?

No. The teacher can be the only one drawn from a photo, with their permission, and the class can be described — the studio draws them from your words. A photo of a child needs a parent's say-so.

Who makes it — the kids or a parent?

A parent or another grown-up. Accounts are for people 13 and over. The kids can supply the ideas, and plenty of them.

How do we give it?

Download the finished issue as a narrated video with music to play in class, or as its panels in a zip with the captions to print and hand over.

More to make

Something else in mind?

Got your own idea already?

Start from a blank page

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