Print comic strip templates and choose from 34 comic layouts that vary from equally sized panels with up to 20 panels to varied sized panels. The files are created by Donna Young of donnayoung.org, home to thousands of high quality printable files.
A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or to form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions. 1
Books: Expressions and action in comic strips are represented or implied with lines and shapes. The budding cartoonist should learn how to create action and expression with lines and shapes and to practice these skills several times a week. Comic drawing books might offer a guide for making expressive lines and shapes and there are many comic drawing books to choose from. One that we found especially good is "Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels". If you would rather use curriculum, Alpha Omega Press has at least four units [ 1, 3, 4, & 7 ] that teach some elements of cartooning. If you purchased only one, get Unit 7 Comics.
Below is a printable with many blank circles on which a child can practice drawing facial expressions.
Cartoon Faces
Typically the cartoonist will draw his own panels as needed, but for the budding cartoonist, some pre-drawn cartoon templates might be just the thing he needs to get started.
The printable comic panel pages in this group feature 1/4 inch gutters with equally sized panels. The outside margins should be around 1/2 inch but your printed results could be a little different.
Additionally, this particular group of printable files do not include a link back to my website or a copyright notice. Omitting those typical notations on the printed document is a courtesy to students. Despite the lack of marks that point back to me or my website, these files continue to fall under my Terms of Use.
4 panels
6 panels
9 panels
12 panels
16 panels
20 panels
2013 - DY - "Arch Top" is a set of printable comic strip templates that feature an open top. The open top may be used for anything that the artist decides and some examples are:
Under the open top is an arched panel. The arched panel is either full width or divided and can be used as normal panels or to continue a dramatic effect that might have been started in the open top.
The panels on the "Arch Top" comic strip templates vary.
