On my tour of schools in the North, up to and down from the Lakes International Comic Art Festival, I’ve been sending Hev photos of my occasionally subterranean hotel rooms, if only to stop her being jealous of my exotic travels.
Tuesday 31 October 2023
Quizzer & Chips & other stories - October's musings
On my tour of schools in the North, up to and down from the Lakes International Comic Art Festival, I’ve been sending Hev photos of my occasionally subterranean hotel rooms, if only to stop her being jealous of my exotic travels.
Thursday 26 October 2023
Richard The Third is here
Now I have the fun task of packaging them dispatching them to you all. Brace yourselves, they'll be with you soon. As soon as I can manage.
If you'd like to recommend the book to friends, they can order signed copies at £6.99 each direct from me here
Or, if they're in some far flung corner of the world (where postage would be prohibitive) they can get the Amazon edition at £8.99 (but probably with free postage) here
And I can announce, with some amazement, that on pre-orders alone Richard The Third is currently.....
No 40 in Comic Book Adaptations of Classics for Children
358 in Fiction Comics & Graphic Novels for Young Adults
362 in Fiction Classics for Young Adults
Not bad eh? And all thanks to you. Watch your mailboxes next week.
Kev F
Wednesday 25 October 2023
Ho ho ho - fun with a social media check
Also in Hate Speech they had included every time I have used the word "Nazi" in a post about a news story. Even though, on every occasion, I am being critical of Nazis. Somehow this has been counted against me.
Also in Hate Speech they had included this post and selected the word "chink" from the phrase "chink in the armour". I would suggest they are being the racists there.
Also in Hate Speech they had included this post (pictured below) suggesting it uses the word "ching" in it twice. Where do I begin? Firstly I would have to ask whether "ching" is even a word, let alone an offensive word. Secondly I would have to point out that their system has misread the image which featured only the words "clutching" and "aching" from which the system has made new words, then decided that they were offensive.
Under Swearing and Profanity they had included this post (and others similar) highlighting the word "cock". The system has misread, from an image, the word "sock" which appears many times, being the title of my comedy show The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre.
This post contains the word "ho" - as part of the word "psycHOtic"
This post contains the word "ho" as part of the logo of The PHOenix comic.
Other posts include laughing pirates (see above), and Santa Claus, and indeed me laughing at something, or echoing the Seven Dwarves' "Hi Ho".
I had to stop searching on Tuesday afternoon when, inexplicably, the posts in question suddenly disappeared from Facebook. Posts I'd searched earlier had suddenly become unavailable, as had posts in the Social Media Check Report that I had still to look at.
My Books and where to get them:
Prince Of Denmark Street - Amazon - Etsy
Midsummer Nights Dream Team - Amazon - Etsy
Tales Of Nambygate - Amazon
Tuesday 24 October 2023
Hot Dogs & Big Buns - more comics by kids
A small but perfectly formed selection of comics by kids, and a few adults, in the last week's worth of Comic Art Masterclasses.
Thursday 19 October 2023
Midsummer NIght's Dream - work in progress
For reasons that I'll go into in more detail when I feel I can, I've started on a new graphic novel. I'm going to be tackling at least two more Shakespeare plays, both in the simple style I've just used for Richard The Third. And, in the first instance, I'll be making a few chapters for demonstration purposes. Whether I complete the whole book right now, we'll have to see.
I've begun, because it was suggested, with Midsummer Night's Dream. I know this seems weird, cos it's a play that I've already tackled (as The Midsummer Night's Dream Team in 2020), but this is a more direct adaptation, taking my comedy approach rather than anything more left field, and aimed at the 7 year old reader.
Here's my worksheet so far.
Tues Oct 17th - Writing more script.
Weds Oct 18th - Script for first three scenes complete, all major characters sketched out. First page & logo drawn.
Thurs Oct 19th - Page 2 - 7 drawn, pages 8 & 9 pencilled.
To be continued...
My Books and where to get them:
Prince Of Denmark Street - Amazon - Etsy
Midsummer Nights Dream Team - Amazon - Etsy
Tales Of Nambygate - Amazon
Wednesday 11 October 2023
Poopy Doo Doo Heads - Kev F's Comic Art Masterclass Annual 2024
Book Sales September - online and live
Richard The Third is available to pre-order on Amazon right now, let's see what difference that makes to online sales in a month's time. For the moment we're looking at a record breaking month from Etsy and D2D, and not in a good way:
Lulu/Amazon September sales - £18.76 (published Oct 11th)
Sept £33.34, Aug £27.60, July £29.94, June £48.33, May £52.26, April £8.56, March £38.57, Feb £35.25, & Jan £26.84