Chester Comix
Making history interesting for reluctant readers!
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Chester Comix began in 2003, but the character has been around since Earth Day in 1995! www.chestercomix.com
 
Chester Comix

Chester Comix Here's a great article about comix and literacy! I try to make the link between picture books and comix in all my public talks - if reading Dr. Seuss to preschoolers is good for literacy, comix for third- and fourth-graders can be just as good!

Source: www.sciencedaily.com
ScienceDaily (Nov. 6, 2009) Although comics have been published in newspapers since the 1890s, they still get no respect from some teachers and librarians, despite their current popularity among adults. ...
Chester Comix

Chester Comix Here's the Homeschool All-Stars deal: coming out in early December as a HARDCOVER (my first!) sold exclusively thru the holiday season on this website, the Homeschool Buyer's Co-op. It's a great site that has sold a lot of my comix for the past 14 months. Join up so you can get a great deal on a signed copy of the book! (Paperback copies with fewer biographies will follow in January or February)

Source: www.homeschoolbuyersco-op.org
The Homeschool Buyers Co-op is the nation's largest purchasing cooperative for homeschooling families. Membership is free and private. We make homeschooling more affordable with exclusive member discounts, and group purchases, free curriculum and more.
Brian Korte
Brian Korte
what a brilliant idea to merge together and group buy!
Thu at 10:11am
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Chester Comix
Truly! And because I don't often get a chance to do my author's speaking gig for homeschoolers -- like I do all the time for public school students -- I'm going to pack some of that advice and information into this book (a foreward, some fun sketch stuff in the back).
Thu at 11:28am
Lorene Veatch
Lorene Veatch
Bentley, I'm very interested in these!
Fri at 12:12pm
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Chester Comix is chugging along on coloring the pages for Homeschool All-Stars --- see the comix cover and the finished page for Ansel Adams in the updated photo album for the book!

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Chester Comix Here are four pages of the comic book I've been rough drafting this summer. Each page will be dedicated to a brief look at the childhood of a famous person who was homeschooled in some way.

Chester Comix
Chester Comix
Thanks, Laurie -- but this is the part of the creative process where I don't feel talented at ALL! Near the end I get really frustrated as I pull back and see the difference between what I have in my head and what appears on the page. So I'm diving back in and trying to sharpen things up in these last few days -- kind of a marathon runner's last gasp push to cross the finish line strong!
October 30 at 8:07am
Laurie Dubell Wolvin
Laurie Dubell Wolvin
OH, but you are wonderful and it will all come together for sure. I have seen your work:} Keep plugging away and the book will turn out beautifully! Good Luck these last few days of finishing it up...you will pass over that finish line strong!
October 30 at 9:00pm
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Chester Comix
One of the teachers who brought her class to see me at James Madison's Montpelier for Constitution Day '09 sent me this snapshot! I am on the porch of Madison's beautiful home after speaking to the kids and the gathered public -- I loved being between the Constitution and President Madison himself (played so well by Jo...hn Douglas Hall). I'm such a history geek - this really was one of the most thrilling things I've done in my work to bring powdered wig history alive for today's students! I MEAN IT!!!!Read More

Brian Korte
Brian Korte
I think you do a great job at it! Congrats!
October 21 at 12:05pm
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Every time I speak to students about my work as an author, I end the session as fired up as they are...
Kerry Mann
Kerry Mann
Can't wait until November 6th and 7th to see you! I am really looking forward to the signing
October 15 at 6:17am
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Chester Comix Is signing now at the Barnes n Noble in Merchants Square! Come to the awesome farmer's market n stop in to say hi

Theresa Kennihan Wagar
Theresa Kennihan Wagar
Wish we could. My kids love your work!!!
October 10 at 10:10am
Laurie Dubell Wolvin
Laurie Dubell Wolvin
Wish I were up there Bentley!
October 10 at 11:38am
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Chester Comix cool! Just finished drawing a one-page bio of painter Andrew Wyeth for my Homeschool All-Stars comic coming out this holiday season -- I loved visiting the Wyeth museum in Chadds Ford, PA, with my sons 4 years ago and hope this page is a small repayment to the awesome art the Wyeths have given us!

October 6 at 10:45pm
Laurie Dubell Wolvin
Laurie Dubell Wolvin
Bentley, I love your work. My kids this year are second graders and love the books you did...they are their favorites!
October 7 at 1:05pm
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Chester Comix
My son Truman and I went camping at Fort Story in Virginia Beach with his Boy Scout troop in September 2009. The theme of the campout was a daylong Scout Games competition, but I hoped to get to the historic lighthouses on the base -- I had never been, but I had heard tell that some Chester Comix could be found in the ...gift shop there. But this was as close as I got. I was brazenly distracted by an awesome game of beach football with the guys!!!!!! Oh well, history another time . . .Read More

Lorene Veatch
Lorene Veatch
Hi Bentley, good picture! Very cute son!
September 28 at 6:41pm
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Chester Comix is looking forward to giving three chalk talks to students visiting Montpelier (the home of James Madison) next Thursday for Constitution Day! Come by for an afternoon booksigning if you're roaming north of Charlottesville!

Chester Comix

Chester Comix As a native of north central Ohio, I had no experience with the beautiful Ohio River. So I took a day to wander along the waterway and found some great stories of antebellum Ohio.

Sandy Dozier Lillard Adams
Sandy Dozier Lillard Adams
That's pretty close. Thanks. I'd love to go over and see all those great houses.
August 30 at 5:48am
Donald E. Boyd
Donald E. Boyd
I've always wanted to tour that area. Your Grandpa Charlie Boyd came to Ripley, Ohio when he ran away from home in Putnam, Va. at age 16. I think he made it to Ripley twice (where he had an older sister) before he made it to central Ohio by age 18.
September 3 at 10:17am
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Chester Comix just got in reprints of two titles! War for Independence is the first Chester Comix to hit four printings! And GOVERNMENT comes in the nice Civics gift set that includes American Symbols, Comix Economix and Moving and Grooving Transportation! Call for comix!

August 26 at 8:04am
Angela Malicki
August 27 at 10:58am
Laurie Dubell Wolvin
Laurie Dubell Wolvin
Bentley, I am teaching 2nd grade this year so I am sure my kids will love your comic books! You do an awesome job on them:}
August 28 at 6:03pm
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Chester Comix is going to sign comix out at Historic Jamestowne on the island today, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.! Come on out - it's free admission for families!

Chester Comix

Chester Comix Here are four pages of the comic book I've been rough drafting this summer. Each page will be dedicated to a brief look at the childhood of a famous person who was homeschooled in some way.

Chester Comix
Chester Comix
Thanks, Laurie -- but this is the part of the creative process where I don't feel talented at ALL! Near the end I get really frustrated as I pull back and see the difference between what I have in my head and what appears on the page. So I'm diving back in and trying to sharpen things up in these last few days -- kind of a marathon runner's last gasp push to cross the finish line strong!
October 30 at 8:07am
Laurie Dubell Wolvin
Laurie Dubell Wolvin
OH, but you are wonderful and it will all come together for sure. I have seen your work:} Keep plugging away and the book will turn out beautifully! Good Luck these last few days of finishing it up...you will pass over that finish line strong!
October 30 at 9:00pm
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Chester Comix has finished rough drafting 11 pages for a new comic: HOMESCHOOL ALL-STARS! Each page is a bio of a famous person who was homeschooled. Trying to get this printed by Thanksgiving . . .

August 4 at 9:37am
Anne Gammons Crocco
Anne Gammons Crocco
I have a friend who homeschools; can you send me a link I can e-mail to her?
August 4 at 12:47pm
Chester Comix
Chester Comix
hmmm - no link just yet - I have hard copies on PAPER! send me her snail mail and I'd be happy to giver her a preview look at the pages! THANKS!
August 4 at 7:37pm
Chester Comix
Chester Comix
(BTW, the list includes so far . . . nature photographer Ansel Adams, president Teddy Roosevelt, archaeologist Mary Leakey, tank general George Patton, painter Andrew Wyeth, president Woodrow Wilson and silent film comedian Buster Keaton. I'm having a lot of fun making each page look different to reflect the personality of the subject on that page!
August 6 at 6:35pm