Friday, 31 July 2026

Middle Aged Men & other stories - a week of comics by kids


A week-full of comics by kids in Rhymney, The Hive Worcester, Cockerton and Darlington libraries, and Wollaton and Nottingham Central libraries.


Ysgol Y Lawnt summer school, Rhymney



The Hive in Worcester, morning and afternoon classes. And, gawd help me, I drew a new flipchart image each time, and gave them away to the kids. Because I was handing the tickets myself, I figured the venue was less invested in the classes so they wouldn't be bothered about keeping the flipchart image. Their systems were so Kafka-esque that getting photocopies done was a real headache. I had to open an account with Worcestershire libraries, then put money on my library card, then used that to bill the photocopies to. Singularly the most convoluted process I've had to go through to make the kids' comics.


Cockerton Library in the morning, Darlington Library in the afternoon. And as well as producing two sterling comics, they bought more books than any other place I've visited this month. 


Wollaton Library in the morning, Nottingham Central Library in the afternoon. And Middle Aged Men must be one of the most unusual titles of the season.

The celebrities these seven groups chose to appear in my demonstration strip were Michael Jackson (scary evil old version), Michael Jackson (young version), Mr Beast, Harry Kane, David Attenborough, Ronaldo and Jackie Chan.


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