Archive for July, 2008
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Part 2 of the Comic Book Creators’ excerpts, as well as the good news that a regular publisher of my monthly comics, London’sThe Other Side Magazine, was recently featured in The Guardian‘s media section. Click here to read the interview with Sam, TOS’s fresh-faced Editor.
Details aplenty from Nate:
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As promised, here are a few excerpts from the comics created by my students over the course of the last 2 weeks. In no apparent order, we have:
Pablo the Sacred Runyip by Spencer
The Epic of Mibus by Gavin
The Sweet Escape by Maggie A Ghost Aghast by Haley
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Yep, that’s right. The Comic Book Creators session at Galileo Summer Quest came to an end today, with nearly all of my 32 students walking away with 10 copies of their very own comics (see below for proof). And not just comics they’d banged out in clipart a la David Rees (not to knock the magnificent Get Your War On), but real comics that they’d thumbnailed, pencilled, inked, scanned, photoshopped and coloured. Not bad for 9 days work!
I’m so proud of all the students in both my classes (spanning 5-8th grades) that I’m going to stop gushing and sit down with their comics for a good read. What better praise is there.
I’ll post excerpts over the weekend, but just to whet your appetites, we had comics covering: an escape from a haunted town; a star wars take-off, done with sausages; an epic knight’s tale; a man who’s shrunk and can only communicate with his dog; a space story with a twist in the tale; Hercules fighting Kung-Fu Panda; a nature documentary featuring a Runyip (from Star Wars – come ON); unemployed taxi drivers panhandling; more plots to take over the world than I could ever have imagined; and even the odd (semi) wordless piece. An ink-stained pat on the back to everyone involved.
PS It’s also given me an idea for posting tutorials on this site, which I’ll do imminently. Keep your eyes peeled for a new section on the main menu bar.
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Click here to read a review of my latest comic, What A Whopper, published on the Optical Sloth website. For those of you daunted by the prospect of a whole paragraph in these ADD-crazed times, here are the highlights:
“A comic with a message! Sorry, even with all the chaos in the world I rarely see something cross my desk that’s this socially conscious, with all sorts of links to boot. ”
“a powerful, concise and even entertaining recap of the circumstances a good chunk of the unseen population of this country lives with every day”
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My latest submission to The Other Side Magazine, a London monthly that’s distributed all over the Northern Line, this is the first half of a piece depicting how the words subtlety and tact should never find themselves in the same sentence as an american police officer. Oh. Based on a true story, as witnessed last Friday.
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Here’s my latest piece for the soon-to-be-launched Bash magazine, based in the Washington area. It’s about my travels to Cuba a few years ago and touches on tourism, communism and life under Fidel.
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