A healthy bit of travelling and some good long days work and here we have a bulging grab bag of brand new comics by kids in my Comic Art Masterclasses. Above we see the creations of two primary schools in Northumbria, paid for by the Hexham Book Festival who not only paid for the classes and the above-average length of travel, but put Hev and I up in a lovely little guest house in the smashing historic town of Hexham. (Google it. How many wars have they had in that market place?). And when the day in schools was over, I did an evening session in the library too...
...with a title that came straight from the 1950s (which became a bit of a running joke. I do seem to conjure up a lot of references from the distant past without realising). The photo of me grinning cheesily comes from Dyson Perrins school in Malvern where the kids came up with these comics:
The pupils were from various intake primary schools, ranging from year 4 to the school's year 7s, and a wonderful diversity of comic strips resulted. And last week I was working with pupils in Swindon...
Nylands school has pupils with special educational needs, though frankly I couldn't tell. Excellent work all round, and a treat to work with. This week's pupils were all asked to select a celebrity for me to draw in the "treads on a worm" demonstration strip, and these seven groups plumped for Dec, Johnny Depp, David Tennant, Stephen Hawking, Lady Gaga, Vin Diesel and Alan Carr. (No Simon Cowell this time, though he was one of the suggestions in a third of classes).
Kev F Sutherland, as well as writing and drawing for The Beano, Marvel, Doctor Who et al, runs Comic Art Masterclasses in schools, libraries and art centres - email for details, and follow him on Facebook and Twitter. View the promo video here.
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