1st Edition
Using Comic Art to Improve Speaking, Reading and Writing
Introduction – comic art as a visual organiser for planning writing
Chapter 1: Strong Openings.
Chapter 2: Opening lines.
Chapter 3: What do you want the reader to see?
Chapter 4: Details add to the tension.
Chapter 5: Jump into the action.
Chapter 6: Small Important Details.
Chapter 7: Drawing as visual shorthand.
Chapter 8: Scripting.
Chapter 9 Strong Endings.
Chapter 10: Creating Quick Characters.
Chapter 11: Don’t take that tone with me.
Chapter 12: Heroes and Villains.
Chapter 13: Controlling Pace.
Chapter 14: Build up the drama.
Chapter 15: Anticipation.
Chapter 16: Genre.
Chapter 17: Using Kapow Techniques for Art Appreciation.
Chapter 18: Kapow techniques and non-fiction writing.
Chapter 19: A note on rough layouts.
Chapter 20: Afterword – the learning value of comics.
Bibliography
Index.
Biography
Steve Bowkett taught English for twenty years and is now a full-time educational consultant, writer and storyteller. He is the author of more than fifty-five books including Jumpstart! Creativity and The Countdown to Writing series for Routledge.
Tony Hitchman has over thirty-five years of experience teaching throughout the primary age range in a variety of schools, culminating in eleven years as a primary headteacher. He has written scripts for the comic publisher DC Thompson and contributed cartoons to various small press publications.
