Summary: Once again, the Making Comics crew invades <a href="http://www.comic-con.org/wca" target="_blank">Wondercon</a> and this year’s raid was pretty epic. Ok, maybe epic is overstating things and perhaps overused but it sure as heck felt that way. Why did it feel that way? Because this year we not only had our standard Gutter Talk panel but we partnered up with high school students from the <a href="http://www.makingcomics.com/gnp/" target="_blank">Graphic Novel Project</a> at <a href="http://www.hightechhigh.org/schools/HTHCV/" target="_blank">High Tech High in Chula Vista</a>, CA, too. To put the proverbial cherry on top, we even had a table in a prime location on the floor.<br> If you’re not familiar with the Graphic Novel Project, it’s an after school student volunteer program that is designed to teach students the ins and outs of making a comic, from conceptualization to production to even the business side of marketing and selling the product. What made it really special was that the students got to participate in this year’s Gutter Talk panel. Imagine being a 15 year old student sitting up on stage at one of the more major comic conventions in the country and talking about yourself and the work you put into the project. Those opportunities don’t come along all that often and as you’ll hear in this episode, the students understand this.<br> In this Gutter Talk episode, Adam narrates the way through the various topics. On the panel along with the students is the Making Comics CEO and head elf, Patrick Yurick, his wife and our education guru, Kay Flewelling, and the student mentor and Making Comics editor-in-chief Kevin Cullen. We cover a wide range of topics from an artist’s diet to the transformation from a single comic into a collection of comics to how and why the group shrank from thirteen students to five. And no, it wasn’t because they ate the weak ones.<br> <a href="https://www.patreon.com/makingcomics?ty=h" target="_blank"></a><br> <br> Click the image below to see a photo gallery from the con:<br> <a href="https://goo.gl/photos/FrTstWUdLV1ZX6z58" target="_blank"></a><br> <a href="https://goo.gl/photos/FrTstWUdLV1ZX6z58" target="_blank">MakingComics.com Graphic Novel Project 2016 @Wondercon / Google Photos</a><br> <br> <br> Here is the powerpoint used during the presentation:<br> <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bxp_8UA0CPNrSUJpZ3FzLWhqRVE" target="_blank"></a><br> We presented student testimonials from the <a href="https://www.coursera.org/learn/make-comic-books" target="_blank">“How To Make A Comic Book” massive open online course</a> during the panel presentation. Here is the final cut of the student presentations:<br> <br> Here are the full videos from each of the students in the MOOC:<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Intro & Outro Song:<br> “RetroFuture Clean” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)<br><br> Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0<br><br> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/<br>
