Create your own cartoon

You can hone your cartoon drawing skills¹ and practise developing cartoons by using the comic creator² , make beliefs comix³ and stripgenerator⁴.

The cartoonster⁵ website features a collection of fun and interactive tutorials which teach children and young people how to create their own animations!

Using Microsoft Word, create your own cartoon. Your cartoon could:

• illustrate a section of a text you are studying in class

• make a comment on a current social or youth issue

• make a comment on an aspect of human behaviour

• simply present a humorous situation to amuse your audience.

There are a number of ways you can create the images and the setting for your cartoon:

• you can draw them and scan them

• you can use some of the images from Caricatures (.doc 510kB)

• you can use the Clipart in Microsoft Word

• you can use websites such as Free clipart⁶ to source your images.

Use speech bubbles if you want your characters to speak or use a line of text underneath your cartoon if you wish to make a comment on the situation in the cartoon. Or you may decide that your image communicates effectively and does not need any written text.