December Meeting: Funny Books and StoryboardThat Comics

Thank you to the brave Bookshoppers who ventured out in our first snowstorm of the season to come to the library and talk books! We had another great range of books read this month: Big Nate Goes Bananas by Lincoln Peirce; Busting Vegas: The MIT Whiz Kid Who Brought the Casinos to Their Knees by Ben Mezrich; The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora by Pablo Cartaya; The Bible; The Nerdiest, Wimpiest, Dorkiest I Funny Ever by James Patterson; and Funny Girl: Funniest. Stories. EVER. edited by Betsy Bird. Instead of sharing our books via booktalks, we each chose a favorite funny scene from our book and drew a short comic inspired by it (see below).

After pencil on paper comics, it was time to create online versions using StoryboardThat. It's a very user-friendly comic creation website with a pretty substantial free version, although we wanted full functionality so used a free educational trial. Everyone was very focused and made some awesome comics. It was hard to stop when our meeting time was over!

War by Arif

The Godless Germ by Emily

Comic #1 by Liam

Comic #2 by Liam

3 Little Pigs by Mickey

Unknown Story by Nathan

The Perfect Comic by Sean

Our next meeting will be on January 6th, and we will be discussing fantasy/science fiction books (some ideas are shown below) and playing with augmented reality. Have a great month!