Wednesday, 9 July 2025

Humpty Dumpty Spanked A Child - Kids Comics Annual 2026


It's out now, and ready in time for the next comic festivals - my Masterclass Annual. This year's compilation of comics by kids in my Comic Art Masterclasses is called Humpty Dumpty Spanked A Child and collects up 90 pages full of colour front covers, dreamed up by children and drawn by my fair hand.

If you'd had my Comic Art Masterclass between September 2024 and July 2025, your comic cover should be in this colourful paperback volume. Schools from Kent to Northern Ireland, from The Lake District to Cornwall, from Scotland to the Midlands and all points inbetween. If I've taught your kids, I've kept their nonsense and squeezed it into this book.

You'll find a few too many Peppa Pigs for my liking, and an overabundance of Italian Brain Rot. But you'll also find some of the most original genius titles ever dreamt up in the history of the world ever, then drawn by me (while I'm still trying to teach a class full of kids - oh yes, be doubly impressed by the speed at which I rattle off this twaddle!)

It's available on Lulu here, and if it ever pops up on Amazon I'll let you know.

My Books And Where To Find Them...

Richard The
Third (Colour)
Doctors Who?
Colouring
Socks Do
Shakespeare
Kids Comics
Annual 2026
Richard 
The Third (bw)
Findlay 
Macbeth
Prince of 
Denmark Street
Midsummer Night's 
Dream Team
Shakespeare
Omnibus

Comic Tales
From The Bible

Joseph, Ruth
& Other Stories

Space
Elain





Tuesday, 8 July 2025

Scottish Falsetto Socks Do Shakespeare - new graphic novel version


A very exciting new project I've just completed, in between other jobs - The Scottish Falsetto Socks Do Shakespeare The Graphic Novel. It's 70-odd pages long, and incorporates the already-existing Richard III and Romeo and Juliet strips with a whole new load of strip pages. 

Pretty well every sketch from the show, from Shall I Compare Thee, through Hw We Met, to An Actor Prepares, The Porter Scene, and Othello, all drawn in glorious comic style. I've even done illustrated pages of the lyrics of the songs we play in the audience-in music, including As You Like It (to the tune of I Like It), Loves Labours Lost (Neighbours), Comedy Of Errors (Umbrella), Nick Bottom (Big Bottom), King John (Big John), and more. A most satisfying little production to have completed, I must say.

The ebook is available in a variety of ways, all listed here, and the paperback is coming soon for Lulu, and should be found here. If it makes it onto Amazon, and my comic books mostly don't recently, I'll let you know.

The Socks will be performing Shakespeare at The Lakes Comic Festival in September, so this new book will be available as merchandise.


Frustratingly D2D, who've been very good at getting my books out there and onto Amazon, have "blocked" this one (the first time that's happened) because, they say, the pages have too much dense ink on them and it'll show through the printed pages. That'll be the tartan backgrounds. So I've uploaded it to Lulu, but I'm hoping an amended D2D version might still make its way out there. Ironically, I wasn't going to make a Lulu edition at all, and have only done so because D2D raising this problem.


My Books And Where To Find Them...

Richard The
Third (Colour)
Doctors Who?
Colouring
Socks Do
Shakespeare
Kids Comics
Annual 2026
Richard 
The Third (bw)
Findlay 
Macbeth
Prince of 
Denmark Street
Midsummer Night's 
Dream Team
Shakespeare
Omnibus

Comic Tales
From The Bible

Joseph, Ruth
& Other Stories

Space
Elain



Wednesday, 2 July 2025

Book Sales July - live and online

This will I'm sure be remembered as one of the odder events of the month at which I tried to sell books, stood on a windy street in Rhymney (it's pronounced rum-ney not rim-ney, before you ask) drawing caricatures as part of a project led by the local vicar to improve the image of the town. I sold more books than I expected.

Live events / classes et al - £tbc inc x Richards, colour and b&w) = tbc books
Etsy - £tbc (x books)
Lulu (Amazon) - £tbc (x books)
Blurb - $tbc (x books)
D2D - $tbc (x books)

Live Sales July 2025 = tbc books (£tbc)

Weds July 2nd - Rhymney - 5 books (£54.95)

1 x Richard colour
1 x Tales From Bible colour
2 x Esther colour
1 x Joseph & Ruth colour
 
Fri July 4th - Ruskin Juniors, Swindon - 31 books (£217)

31 x Richard The Third @ £7 

Sat July 5th - Aintree Comic Con - 23 books and a lot of caricatures (£292.82)

5 x Richard col
1 x Richard bw
2 x FM
1 x Omnibus
2 x Space Elain
1 x Joseph colour
8 x Drs colouring
2 x Eurovision vol 2 (sold out)
1 x Bowie

Mon July 7th - Whitchurch Primary Harrow - 4 books (£28)

4 x Richard bw @ £7

Thurs July 10th - Arden Academy Solihull - 13 books (£102.97)

3 x Richard colour
10 x Richard bw @ £7



My Books And Where To Find Them...

Richard The
Third (Colour)
Doctors Who?
Colouring
Socks Do
Shakespeare
Kids Comics
Annual 2026
Richard 
The Third (bw)
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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