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Comics Crash Course
Some of the best stories of all time have something in common: They hook us with drawings as well as words. Comics and graphic novels have introduced us to characters ranging from Black Panther and Captain Marvel to Captain Underpants and Greg Heffley, everyone's favorite "wimpy" kid. This week at Camp Kinda, we're zapping ourselves into the world of comics and visual expression with professional author and illustrator Jarrett Lerner.
Like Spiderman, you'll unlock some new powers in no time, learning the tools and techniques to draw anything and everything you can think of! You'll be amazed at how you can make even simple drawings come alive and transform from flat images into a moving story—and you'll get to read a lot of great comics along the way. Every superhero and great graphic character started as a few lines on a blank piece of paper. Who will yours be?
weekly family activity
Explore comics with your family! Read your favorite newspaper’s weekly comics together. Peanuts. Dilbert. The Family Circle. How many of the series do the adults remember from their own childhoods? How many of them are new? Which strip is each family member's favorite? Many of this week's activities can be done as a group, so take a look at those if you want to partake in some more comic-related family fun! (If you want or need more weekly comics, sign up for Sunday Haha, a free weekly newsletter full of kid-friendly comics by a variety of children's book author-illustrators.)
this week’s content builder:
Jarrett Lerner
Jarrett Lerner is the author of the EngiNerds series and the author-illustrator of the Hunger Heroes graphic novel series. He can be found at jarrettlerner.com and on Twitter and Instagram at @Jarrett_Lerner. He lives in Medford, Massachusetts, with his wife, his daughter, and a cat.
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Rainforests are lush places of marvel and mystery. You probably already know that rainforests get a lot of rain. But did you know that they are home to more than 5 million species of plants, animals, and insects? That's half of all the species on earth—and we're still discovering new creatures and plants in the rainforests all the time! And while rainforests only cover about 2 percent of the planet's surface, they produce 20 percent of the world's oxygen, which is why they are considered the "lungs of the planet."
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ART. The word might make you think of hushed museums lined with Very Serious Paintings, or baffling splashes of color that look like something your little brother brought home from preschool. But the truth is, creating art is one of our most basic human instincts, and despite art's fancy-schmancy reputation, anybody can make it—including you!