Gather the supplies that your students will need to create their comic strips. For example, you may ask students to work together in groups to create a group comic strip on a large piece of poster board or you may ask each student to create his own comic strip on construction or drawing paper.
Review how comic strips are created with your students before students begin to work on the assignment. Your instruction should include how to develop stories for comic strips. Hand out written guidelines.
Explain what "brainstorming" is in terms of how it helps in the creation of an original story. You may want to offer examples of comic strips to your students as a guide to how comic strips are composed.
Instruct students to write a script before they begin to create their comic strip. This will help them divide the elements of their story into panels. Describe how a story is developed with a beginning, middle and end. A comic strip storyline should also aim to point out some irony or be amusing.
Have the students draw the actual comic strip, along with the speech and thought bubbles. They should work lightly in pencil first so they can easily erase mistakes. They can then darken the final lines and add crosshatching for shadows or textures.