Be Inspired: Wally Wood's 22 Panels That Always Work

Thank you for sharing and enlightening. That is very generous of you, and made for fascinating reading. I'm already thinking of the possibilities...

Charles -

Glad to hear you enjoyed the panel and the links!

I keep thinking about the way those students photographed themselves in the framed poses.

There are about 10 panels that have just a single person or part of a person.

If I got someone to take my picture in those frame poses, I would open some narration possibilities.

What possibilities have you been conjuring up?

Mark

Hi Mark,

I wanted to let you know that your post did inspire me, bigtime!

I ended up using some of Wally's panels to create announcement for a new eLearning course that I created for the company.  After it went out, I recieved about a dozen emails praising my creativity, message, and engagement factor, even from Execs. 

Just wanted to say thanks  

Mark-

Thank you so much for sharing this. For those of us who are not photographers, I can see several of these that could be recreated by using PPT effects. I'm always looking for new ideas for how to edit characters. This is a great resource

Here are some characters I cropped like a few of the panels...

I love the comic book pattern of expression. I don't think there's anything better for covert or over time representations of human interactions. Nate Piekos is a comic book artist, letterer and font designer. He offers some really great tips here:

http://twitpic.com/9u6om4

http://twitpic.com/9u6nut

http://twitpic.com/9odkyl

http://twitpic.com/7d2i01

These are all listed here with more articles on his font site:

http://blambot.blogspot.com/

http://www.blambot.com/articles.shtml

I really love (that's an understatement) these books from Wil Eisner:

• http://www.amazon.com/Comics-Sequential-Art-Principles-Instructional/dp/0393331261/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1339619182&sr=8-1&keywords=Wil+Eisner
• http://www.amazon.com/Graphic-Storytelling-Visual-Narrative-Instructional/dp/039333127X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1339619182&sr=8-2&keywords=Wil+Eisner
• http://www.amazon.com/Expressive-Anatomy-Comics-Narrative-Instructional/dp/0393331288/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_c

Will was a comic book artist that also illustrated a magazine series for the U.S. Military for several decades. Some really great instructional enhancements and mechanisms of engagement in the old archives. If you're a comic book fan you'll also see some classic comic book artists stuff featured in the magazine:

http://dig.library.vcu.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/psm

If you see Kevin Gumenny around, ask him about his comics for learning session he gave last week in Austin. Not only was the content highly engaging, the overall presentation was one of the best I've ever seen. So cool to see this genre making its way into elearning.