From the Back of a Maths Book to Amazon.
Most children who love comics have one character they have drawn a hundred times in the back of a maths book. Almost none of them ever turn it into a book. Drawing a character is easy. Finishing a whole comic is hard, and nobody ever shows a child how. That is what we teach.
₹14,990 for pages in the shared book, ₹65,990 for a book of their own.
I made this.Dav Pilkey. He could not sit still in class, so they put a desk for him out in the corridor. That is where he invented Captain Underpants. Second grade.
Siegel and Shuster. Two seventeen year olds invented Superman, then signed the rights away for about 130 dollars, because nobody had told them what it was worth.
How old is your child?
Every child in this group is older than Pilkey was and younger than the boys who made Superman. They were not born better at drawing than your child. They just had a way to finish, and that is the part we teach.
Every session, they finish a real part of the book.
Nothing here is practice. In session two they draw their characters. In session four they write what happens on every page. In session five they sketch the whole book. Those are the three big decisions in any comic, and only your child can make them. Once they have, our artists can start.
We ink, we never redraw.
Inking means we clean your child's own line, colour it and set it on the page. We do not replace their drawing with a studio version. If their dog looks a bit funny, the printed dog looks a bit funny, because it is their dog.
Children who started exactly here are on Amazon today.
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15 books live on Amazon. Tap any cover to read it.
This is the kind of book they end up with.
One being made here right now
Real pages from a comic a child is making here right now, off the printer's file. We have left her name off until her book comes out. Tap to read the pages.
Same six sessions either way. The only difference is what book they end up in.
Read down both lists. They are the same until the last few lines. That is the point: your child is taught exactly the same thing whichever you pick.
Start with the anthology. Do the sessions, get a printed comic, and then decide about a book of their own once you have seen your child do it. If you want to add one later it costs ₹58,490 instead of ₹65,990, because you have already paid for the sessions. You can decide any time while the sessions are running, and for 60 days after the book arrives. Their pages still go in the shared book, so they end up with two books.
What happens in each session.
One session a week. Each one teaches a piece of how comics are made, and ends with your child holding a real part of their own book. The bar shows how much of the book exists by the end of it.
After the sixth session the story is finished, not started. What is left is the drawing, and that is what the two one to one sessions are for.
What happens, in order.
- 01 · The six sessions
They build the book as they go. Every session, they finish one part of it, so by the last one the story is done, not just started.
- 02 · Two sessions on their own
Time on their own with their teacher to finish the drawings, now that the story is settled and they know exactly what to draw.
- 03 · Drawings due
The one date we hold you to. The anthology is one book shared by several children, so if one is late, everybody waits.
- 04 · We turn it into a book
We ink and colour every page, set the words in place, check the spelling and design the cover.
- 05 · It goes on sale
The book gets an ISBN and goes on sale on Amazon.in and Amazon.com. Two copies come to your door, with a certificate and a page about your child on our site.
We have not fixed a day or time yet. There are only four or five children in a session, so we set it around the families who join. Tell us what suits you on the form.
Book your child's place.
Only four to five children in a session, so places go quickly. We message you on WhatsApp within 24 hours to agree a day and time.
5 of 5 places leftBefore you decide.
My child cannot really draw. Is this for them?
Yes. We ink, we never redraw. That means we clean their own line, colour it and set it on the page, rather than replacing it with a studio version. If their dog looks a bit funny, the printed dog looks a bit funny, because it is their dog. Two of the biggest children's comic authors in the world, Raina Telgemeier and Jeff Kinney, draw simply on purpose. What we teach is the hard part: how to finish.
What day and time are the sessions?
We have not fixed them yet. There are only four or five children in a session, so we set the day and time around the families who join. That is why the form asks which times suit you. We confirm on WhatsApp once the group is full.
Which one should we pick?
Start with the anthology. Most families do, and it is what we would suggest. Do the sessions, get a printed comic, and then decide about a book of their own once you have seen your child do it.
Can we add a book of their own later?
Yes. It costs ₹58,490 instead of ₹65,990, because you have already paid for the sessions. You can decide any time while the sessions are running, and for 60 days after the book arrives. Their pages still go in the shared book, so they end up with two books. Just tell us and we will sort it out.
How does payment work?
One payment, in full, before the first session. We do not do instalments or part payments. If you add a book of their own later, that is paid before we start work on it.
What if my child misses a session?
Tell us and we will work around it. Every session finishes one part of the book, so nothing gets skipped, they just catch it up. The two one to one sessions are usually where we do that.
Is my child the right age?
The sessions are for ages 9 to 16. Dav Pilkey invented Captain Underpants at 8. The two boys who invented Superman were 17. Every child in this group is somewhere in between.
That character in the back of the maths book deserves a cover.
Comic Studio, ages 9 to 16. From ₹14,990.
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