The following comics were created by Menlo high school students during a week-long course exploring the art of comics. Since we spent the first 2 days exploring and learning about the medium, these comics were mostly created in 2 to 3 days, or roughly 10-15 hours. Inspired by the Flight comic anthologies, each anthology revolves around a theme.

In a few short days, the students went through the entire comicking process: from initial brainstorming to character and setting design, outlining and layouts, and finally, the pencilling of 6-8 comic pages. Some of the students had never drawn more than a stick figure before. Others hadn't composed a creative story since elementary school. Most of them had never faced the challenge of drawing the same character 50 times over 8 pages. As you scroll through the stories that range from the comedic to the dramatic, remember that for many of the students, this was their first.