SILVER DRAWING ACADEMY NI MODORIMASHITA!

OMG

Remember the we were

sitting around talking about the time

I chatted with a bunch of Japanese students

at 

Stephen Silver's Drawing Academy?

Well, it happened

AGAIN!

Mr. Silver handled the majority of the crowd,

who were artists:

But the writers, 

and fans of poorly spoken Japanese, 

hung out with me:

Fortunately,

my translator Akiko

was able to reconstruct my sloppy,

poorly spoken Japanese (and English)

into sentences the kids could understand.

So this year I brought a project for the 

students to rock:

That says,

"LET'S WRITE CODENAME: KIDS NEXT DOOR!"

"First, think of a kid problem"

Each of the students were asked to come up 

with 5 kid issues.

So they got to thinking:

They came up with ideas like:

I DON'T WANT TO GET OUT OF BED

or

I DON'T WANT TO GO TO SCHOOL

or

PARENTS WANT TO HAVE FUN 

INSTEAD OF TAKING CARE OF THEIR KIDS

"Next, make that problem into a person"

How do you PERSONIFY the kid problem?

If you're trying to stay in bed,

what if a 

GIANT ROBOT MADE OF ALARM CLOCKS 

busts into your room?!

"Now, think of an evil"

What is the alarm clock robot doing?

Trying to wake up kids to make them do more school work?

"Next, think of a SOOPER evil"

How do you make things get WORSE

for your hero?

Maybe the alarm clocks are SO LOUD

that they're causing earthquakes that are destroying the earth itself!

And what can the Kids Next Door do to stop it!

The students came up with some

KILLER 

stories.

My 

daisuke

(favorite)

was by this girl:

Her KND operative didn't want to go to school.

So she and her teammates skipped class and went to a park.

Then, from out of nowhere, a giant monster attacked and swallowed 

them all in one bite.

The next thing the operatives know,

they're trapped in a classroom in the monster's stomach.

And class will never end! 

SUBARASHII ZOU!!!

Where was this girl when we we

needed KND stories?!

Thanks to Mr. Silver for having me 

come and hang out with these fun kids!

Can't wait to do it again!