Thankyou Card

An amazing 6 page card made for me by Year 4 of St Clements Primary Openshawe, following our 4 day Creating Comics project.

The Bump - 24 hour comic

Now online and viewable on my proper site - the 24 page story produced in 24 hours as part of the 24 hour comics event (see previous post). Let me know what you think!

Sugar Group pages

3 pages produced in collaboration with members of the Sugar Group (older diabetic Afro-Caribbean women) who meet at the Kath Locke Centre in Moss Side. As part of the larger Community comics project, I worked with these ladies on this strip. All the speech is taken directly from recorded conversations we had. From the transcription we chose the most important dialogue, which I then laid out into speech bubbles. The group then decided both what should be seen in each panel, and how they themselves wanted to be depicted - having seen the childrens work in which they depict themselves as animal characters (partly my influence) the group decided to be roses, a lily, a hummingbird and a butterfly.
The results of the whole project, including all the comics and drawings produced by the youth groups, will soon be available as a PDF.

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Ballet Kittens

Recently completed portrait, showing a young Kirsten (and her cousin) mid-dance class. First sketched version below -

Community Comics Exhibition

The result of a project I've been working on over the summer in Moss Side. I've been employed to gather responses to the JRF's study on social cohesion, part of the study having been undertaken in Moss Side. Working with three youth groups and one group of older people I've taught comic skills which have then been applied to making drawings and strips about how individuals feel about their area, it's perceived problems and poor media reputation.
I'll be posting the resulting artwork once it's been 'premiered' this week at Manchester Town Hall, plus a short report on the experience.

Bookseller magazine

Scans of an article by Paul Gravett in the Bookseller magazine's special October issue on graphic novels and manga. He's writing about the state of children's comics, and quotes me explaining some of my workshop observations.
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