2008 marked the start of Ron Wheeler’s Cartoon Camp. Over 30 kids attended one of two cartoon camps (one for elementary age and one for junior and senior high school students) that Ron and his daughter, Audrey, taught in his home.

Ron covered the basics of drawing, starting with realistic drawing and transitioning into cartooning. Everyone learned how to sculpt cartoon heads with modeling clay and used that as a reference for drawing characters from different angles. Students also gained preliminary information on how to create a comic strip and had opportunity to practice that.

In the Summer of 2009 Ron and his daughter expanded to 4 cartoon camps. Ron also held a single Saturday cartoon day camp in the spring as an outreach through his church to the neighborhood.

In all his teaching Ron uses the latest in technology: drawing in Photoshop CS3 on a Wacom Cintiq tablet and projecting his work on the wall through a digital projector.

COMIX35 offers seminars for Christian communicators who want to put comics to work in their evangelism and discipleship materials.

Seminars are very "hands-on" for students, with opportunities to create comic strips and tracts during class which can go into print immediately.

Sessions cover Identifying Your Audience, Plotting & Scripting, Storyboarding & Visual Storytelling, Editing/Art Directing, and Cultural, Communication, and Evangelism Strategy Considerations. (This is not an introductory "how to draw" class, although usually some art instruction is provided during each seminar.)

Over 30 COMIX35 events have been held worldwide for more than 750 people from 49 countries.

The Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art is a three-year technical school that teaches the principles of sequential art and the particular craft of the comics industry. It is the only accredited school devoted entirely to cartooning.

Although the Kubert School is a not a Christian school, Born Again Christian comics producer Alec Stevens (pictured here) works on their professional teaching faculty.

Stevens also conducts a weekly after-school Bible study for interested students.

Youth With a Mission's University of the Nations School of Illustration trains students to draw on the creative power of God in visual communication. Some of their teaching includes cartooning and humorous illustration, childrens books and bibles, tracts and missions publications.

Christian cartoonists Dave Hudson and Ron Wheeler have been involved in teaching at University of Nations School of Illustration in the past.

F.A.I.T.H. (Fine Arts In The Home) Center at Bethlehem Evangelical Free Church has art classes every Tuesday for children ages 11-18.

Comics professional Alec Stevens teaches the courses Art 1, Art 2, Art 3, and Advanced Art. Each class is opened with prayer, and also Stevens shares eternal truths as they relate to certain principles of art, and vice versa.

There are two other instructors for ages 7-10 (Studio Art and Art Survey) and for the computer art classes.