One of the best comics to come out of the New York Comic Con is The Undersea Adventures of Capt'n Eli. Originally a concept comic book to help promote the Capt'n Eli soda brand. The concept inspired Jay Piscopo to create an all-ages adventure graphic novel series. The story is about Eli, an extraordinary scientifically-minded boy and his adventures in a world of time-travel, robots, lost civilizations, and undersea empires in conflict. Sounds like a more fun version of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea to me.
While surfing around the Capt'n Eli site, I noticed Jay has done a lot of interactive drawing workshops at schools. He talks about them in this Capt'n Eli School Drawing Demonstration. Here's another workshop at the NYCC Kids Day that Jay did this year. If we had these workshops when I was a kid, my paper UI mockups wouldn't be so horrible...