About Graphic Novel Project

Before there was MakingComics.com, Making Comics Worldwide, or even before there was Underdogs – there was the after-school program “Graphic Novel Project” (GNP). In the winter of 2009 Patrick Yurick, founder of Making Comics Worldwide, started an after-school comic book project with 15 students at the High Tech High Chula Vista campus.

For four subsequent years the GNP flourished. Before ending in the spring of 2012, GNP managed to publish 12 books,  sell 800 copies of the books, and travel to present and sell at 13 comic book conventions. GNP was a huge success and is still beloved within the Chula Vista community where it once lived.

Making Comics Worldwide is proud to announce that GNP is back. Patrick Yurick and Kevin Cullen will be leading a new pilot program at the High Tech High Chula Vista Campus. Yurick will be stepping back from his former lead editor role to act as curriculum designer while Cullen will work to lead the group as Editor In Chief/Head Coach.

By March 2016 this new pilot group, composed of only high school students, will create a comic to be sold and presented at Wondercon 2016 in Anaheim, California. The goals for the program are to engage high school students with the professional craft of comic-making.