Thursday, 20 February 2025

An Orangutan Goes Rogue - comics by kids

A clutch of comics by kids in classes from Coventry to Somerset and back to Coventry. And what a rather staid and samey design choice I've made, every single time. I can only apologise. That said, this whole "put one character in the middle of the page, er, that'll do" trope does seem very much to be the order of the day in mainstream comics these days, so who am I to buck the trend?

Our Lady Of The Assumption (which, when its name pops up anywhere on my computer or phone screen, seems to find itself abbreviated to Our Lady Of The Ass) was a nice wee primary school in Coventry whose pupils came up with nifty titles by which I was about this much inspired.


Back to Coventry for Exhall Grange, who are a specialist school dealing with kids with Special Educational Needs. Once more I like to think I handled them pretty well, leaving lots of satisfied year 7s and 8s with a couple of nice looking comics.


Long Sutton, down somewhere near Taunton, was I think a first time visit for me, and a jolly good fun primary school where I think they ended the day impressed. It's often hard to tell until they have you back the next year.

The celebrities these six groups chose to appear in my demonstration strip were Drake, Kim Kardashian, Jesus, Ringo Starr (I know!), Taylor Swift, and Simon Cowell.

My Books And Where To Find Them...
Richard 
The Third
Findlay 
Macbeth
Prince of 
Denmark Street
Midsummer Night's 
Dream Team
Shakespeare
Omnibus

Comic Tales
From The Bible

Joseph, Ruth
& Other Stories

Space
Elain



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