Comics

Learn how to make comics with Sarah McIntyre in this series of Booktrust videos! Great for home or the classroom.

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Make your own Comic Jam

Comic Jam Shanty

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Comic - 26 pages

Airship

Airship is a Comics Jam I did with my friend David O’Connell. We choose the airship as our theme and took turns drawing one page at a time, with a one-hour time limit per page, aiming to finish at 24 pages. We never knew where the other person was going to take the story next, and it was loads of fun!


Alaska Marine Highway

Comic - 28 pages

Alaska

I made Riding the Alaska Marine Highway on a family trip to Seldovia, one of the locations that inspired the house in Oliver and the Seawigs and the Snowdovia setting in Pugs of the Frozen North, two of my books with Philip Reeve. My husband, Stuart, makes a special guest appearance with his comic, included at the end of this one.


FREE lunch at McDiddles - A cartoon of a man ordering a fish burger and tap water

Comic - 10 pages

Bits n' Bobs

Bits ‘n’ Bobs: a collection of short comics


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Comic - 60 pages

China

I love making travel comics! Here’s a book-length comics journal I kept on a road trip around China with my family in 2011. The idea wasn’t to make a perfect comic (too many bumps in the road!), but to capture the wonder of being in a fascinating new place.


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Comic - 6 pages

Cyrano

Cyrano de Bergerac with Gérard Depardieu and Anne Brochet is my all-time favourite film, so I made a fan comic, focusing on one of the more minor characters.


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Comic - 15 pages

Dartmoor


Gini and Sam go travelling

Comic - 8 pages

Ginisam


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Comic - 8 pages

Hourlycomic

Here’s a 24-page comic I made for a 24-Hour Comic Marathon, as part of the Lakes International Comics Festival. (A whole comic book in 24 hours and no sleep!) You can buy it as part of comics anthology called 24 by 7.


A letter from David Lasky

Comic - 5 pages

Lasky

Seattle comics artist David Lasky sent me a beautifully letter in comics form, so I sent him back this one.


Monday Comic

Comic - 6 pages

Mondaycomic

Hourly Comic: this one’s quite old, from the days when I worked at home instead of the studio, but I still love it.


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Comic - 9 pages

Thames Reach