Comics!

Comics have really come into our everyday entertainment lives, haven’t they?  Or at least comic book heroes and heroines have.  I’m loving all of the Marvel and DC movies and TV shows these days!

Our Young Artists and Young Writers Clubs explored both universes recently, inventing their own superheroes, their arch-nemeses, their cities, their super strengths and weaknesses, their costumes… so much fun to create a whole world with so many possibilities.

They watched clips of some of the recent movie incarnations of famous comic book characters, and learned a bit about the writer/directors Joss Whedon and Christopher Nolan.  It was neat to directly compare their work:

• How would the participants describe each ones style?
• Why did they think that style did or did not go with a particular hero?
• What aspects of these styles would they choose to incorporate into their own superhero stories?

Check out some of their creations!

Here’s some of the superhero logos they created, taking inspiration from examples of other comic book fonts: