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Bookmarking Kids Read Comics

by Mission Control on May 20, 2015 at 4:49 pm
Posted In: Blog

Hey all! I’ll be representing Mission Control again at Kids Read Comics this June in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Not only that, but I did a new bookmark for Ellie which you can get there too (for FREE!). I’ll post some more info on Kids Read Comics as it draws near, but here’s a look at the bookmark. It’s got shiny spot varnish on it!

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└ Tags: Kids Read Comics, Kids' Comics Revolution
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Ellie Sketches Supreme!

by Mission Control on May 19, 2015 at 11:47 am
Posted In: Blog

Mission Control took a field trip to MotorCity ComicCon over the weekend. My haul was pretty small, but I brought home some sketches of Ellie by Katie Cook and Michael Roll, plus I forgot to post one more I got from Joshua Buchanan back in February at the MSU Comics Forum! Thanks all!

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└ Tags: Fan Art, Josh Buchanan, Katie Cook, Mike Roll
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Ellie’s Fourth Grade School of Science!

by Mission Control on May 15, 2015 at 4:09 pm
Posted In: Blog

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A few weeks ago Mission Control received a request from children’s book author, former comics editor, and now fourth grade teacher Phil Amara: How can an elementary school teacher use Ellie on Planet X best in class?

 

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Not being a teacher myself (although the Strang Institute Mission Control has many on staff), I turned the question over to Ellie’s Facebook and Twitter followers. The answers boiled down to teaching about space exploration, robotics, the importance of science, the fun of reading, using your imagination, sharing, and empathy. Thanks to everyone who contributed.

 

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Then Phil’s fourth graders took inspiration from Ellie’s discoveries and made their own comics about science and exploration. Phil sent a few pics to share!

Thanks, Boston Fourth Graders! You Rock!

└ Tags: Fan Art
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The Automaton Ballet

by Mission Control on May 7, 2015 at 3:26 pm
Posted In: Blog

Ellie-Ballet

When Ellie was being programmed for her mission to Planet X, one of the ingenious decisions by Professor Strang was to teach her by reading the brain patterns of people in the process of doing various things. He started out small, literally teaching her to crawl first, before moving onto more complex functions.

Eventually, Ellie was “instructed” by experts in their fields. And not just the sciences. She got a heaping helping of artistic programming as well. All in an effort to “…bring up a well rounded representative of what it means to be human.”

These are a few drawings of Ellie putting some of that arts training into practice. Despite her rather heavy metal makeup, she’s really quite agile. Because she has treads instead of feet, she became quite adept at an off-the-ice version of figure skating that can only be described as graceful.

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Post Holiday Hootenanny

by Mission Control on January 8, 2015 at 1:31 pm
Posted In: Blog

I just remembered to post this amazing piece of work by Jesse Hughes of CosmiCat fame, featuring Ellie and a bunch of other cool comics characters ringing in the new year! Thanks, Jesse!

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└ Tags: CosmiCat, Fan Art, Jesse Hughes
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