My thanks to the good people of Bexley Libraries for organising three days of Comic Art Masterclasses visits, to six different libraries across their catchment area through the week of Half Term. They've ended up with the kids suggesting titles for half a dozen brilliant comic covers. As always, they take away an A5 black and white photocopied comic containing all of their strips, their caricatures, and this cover drawn by me, with doodles by them. I then colour the covers when I get home, and these get emailed to them.
Bexleyheath and Sidcup libraries started the week well, with well attended class and some nifty titles.
It's a testament to their organisation, that all six of these libraries, which were no more than a 15 minute drive inbetween, were equipped with flipcharts and pads, had well laid out tables and chairs for all the kids, and had provided all the materials we needed. They even had identical photocopiers that all worked perfectly. It's a rare week in libraries that you get all of those things.
It was also good to drive round bits of the country that I hadn't seen before (or if I had, having been to Erith & Bexleyheath before, I'd forgotten). These towns are on the border of Kent and South East London and, as a result, I was seeing a lot of those bits where the city ends and you see the countryside beginning.
The celebrities these six groups chose to appear in my demonstration strip were The Queen, Boris Johnson, Ariana Grande (twice), Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, and Selena Gomez.
Buy the books:
Pop Star Colouring Annual with 50 images from 70s to now
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