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comics jams at the cartoon museum!
During the first of two 2-hour workshops I led at the Cartoon Museum on Thursday, we started with warm-up sketches. Here’s mine, some sort of burping rodent. The first session was very chilled out, only three kids, and we had … Continue reading
another day of princessing
Today’s costume at the fab Discover centre in Stratford was more pink princess than space princess, but the princess prize goes to cartoonist Faz Choudhury for giving the best tip for getting big black scuff marks off white PVC boots. … Continue reading
space princess!
Today I got to visit the Discover centre in Stratford, northeast London. The place looks amazing, with bizarre interactive story items packed into every square inch – a giant black dragon in the stairwell, a vibrating bridge, wiggling signposts, and … Continue reading
wigtown, scotland’s book town
Before I moved to Britain, I’d never heard of Wigtown, which is strange, because it’s a beautiful Scottish small town with TWENTY independent bookshops! Who cares if it rains all weekend, there’s so much browsing to be had! Here’s the … Continue reading
best superhero faces ever
On Saturday I ran a little monster-making workshop and sold Morris books at a stall at an arts and crafts fair in the Well church hall in Camberwell. My friends Liz and Steph had a table next to me and … Continue reading
little pencil at the ica
Taso and her marvellous mythical beast On Friday evening, as part of the Comica festival, Gemma Tortella organised with Paul Gravett so that a group of kids, their parents and I watched three animations in the cinema at the Institute … Continue reading
essex workshops and the gary northfield heritage trail
Yesterday my studio mate Gary Northfield and I jointly led a couple monster workshops in Essex at the South Hornchurch library and Newton’s primary school. I had loads of fun reading from Morris the Mankiest Monster; the kids got REALLY … Continue reading
making monsters in dublin
Hello, please meet Manky Horace O’Neill, one of many monsters the kids in Dublin created with me. I met a bunch of fab people at Irish 24 Hour Comics Day, including animator, illustrator and pop-up guru Maeve Clancy. You can … Continue reading
how i make comics
Anita at London’s Cartoon Museum asked me to do an info sheet for their school packets, to go along with the Vern and Lettuce pieces they have in their collection (pencil sketch, line work and digital final print). (Click on … Continue reading
saturday in the comics tank!
Yesterday a bunch of us from the the DFC had a great time leading a comics workshop at London’s Cartoon Museum Presenters included the Etherington brothers, Zak Simmonds-Hurn and Adam Murphy. (Zak and Adam’s stuff will be appearing later in … Continue reading
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