Do you know what 6-7 means? Of course you don't. If you're a grown up, in this the Autumn school term of 2025, you're hearing kids saying it all the time, and you've no idea what they mean when they say "6-7". Neither, it seems most of the time, do they. But say it they do. And write it on the front cover of their class comics, in my Comic Art Masterclasses, they also do. It first cropped up as a suggested title for a comic in the first class of term, and has been a constant since. If you're reading this in the future, of course, you'll have no idea what "6-7" ever was, and if you're a historian you'll start making up some spurious nonsense to explain it, like you do with most things.
The school where I first heard 6-7 was Lady Eleanor Holles in Twickenham. A posh girls school, I was teaching the equivalent of Year 8, though they call themselves the Upper and Lower Fourth. Of course they do. Anyway, they introduced me to, but couldn't adequately define, 6-7.
I then did two days of classes, across four primary schools, in the Isle Of Wight where you can see from the second cover title they came up with that 6-7 is part of their vernacular too. Also Bob Ate My Bum, which was refreshingly childish.
Two more Isle of Wight primary schools, and actually no visible mentions of 6-7 here, just the usual nonsense from kids. I'm grateful to the Isle Of Wight Literary Festival for having me back for the umpteenth year, putting me up in a sterling hotel, and organising a smashing Authors Meal where I got to meet and chat with quite the assortment of top writers (none of whom, I'll be honest, I'd heard of before, but all of whom are way more famous than me!)
Another return booking, this time the Clevedon Literary Festival, where I did a lovely if slightly poorly attended class. There were only eight of them, but they came up with a fine comic.
The celebrities these 6 groups chose to appear in my demonstration strip were Taylor Swift, Michael Jackson, Dwayne The Rock Johnson, Billie Eilish, David Attenborough, and one I failed to make a note of.
My Books And Where To Find Them...
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Richard The Third (Colour) | Doctors Who? Colouring | Socks Do Shakespeare | Kids Comics Annual 2026 |
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Richard The Third (bw) | Findlay Macbeth | Prince of Denmark Street | Midsummer Night's Dream Team |
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Shakespeare Omnibus
| Comic Tales From The Bible
| Joseph, Ruth & Other Stories
| Space Elain
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Colouring Books: Doctors Who, Hollywood Legends, Punk, Cult TV, Eurovision Vol 1, Eurovision Vol 2, Eurovision Best Of British & Irish, 1960s Pop, 1970s Pop, 1980s Pop, 1990s Pop, 2020s Pop, Bowie, Scottish Pop, Royalty, Rom Coms
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