My first Comic Art Masterclasses of 2024 saw me travelling up north for a three day run in Cheshire Colleges, followed by a day in Enfield. My first classes since November, I soon remembered how to do it.
Ellesmere Port's branch of Cheshire College saw me working with sixth-form age students, as did all three days in Cheshire. For the second session I even managed to sell forty quid's worth of books after the class, a feat I didn't manage to repeat again during the week. Kids don't have money, but that lesson had lots of teaching assistants, who do.
Chester came up with a couple of callback titles, not only to the previous day's Crack, but to one from the end of last year, which was among the covers I showed them, entitled Shooting Someone's Nan. It is an unfortunate thing that, when I show them the previous groups' comics for inspiration, it can sometimes stop them thinking of anything more original themselves (hence the slew of Peppa Pig titles that I have had in previous years. I'm starting the year with a new, smaller clutch of comics to show them, which I hoped wouldn't narrow down their creativity).
Heron Hall in Enfield, which saw me doing a near five hour drive the night before, saw another callback cover to Shooting Someone's Nan. Whatever, I made it look good. And I was particularly pleased with how I managed to interpret Rocket Rat On Drugs.
The celebrities these eight groups chose to star in my demonstration strip - that thing I rattle through on the flipchart to give them the rudimentary tips and tricks to start drawing their own comic strips - were: Tom Holland, Rod Stewart, David Bowie, Jun (a K Pop star, m'lud), Johnny Depp, John Travolta, Ariana Grande, and Nicki Minaj.
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