Drawing partners Omar and Rosa Gonzales with finished renditions of Pikachu and Sonic characters … Credit: Maya McFadden Photos … in a class that brings Cross art students together with East Rock ...

Phil Lohmeyer figured there were kids in Greenwich who didn't just want to read comic books or watch cartoons; they wanted to draw their own Sponge Bob, Scooby-Doo or Spider Man and create adventures ...

While colleges, universities and art schools have been busily adding comics-making classes—and in some cases, concentrations or even entire departments—in parallel with the current "graphic novel boom ...