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Today I was given a particularly wonderful reminder of just how much I love comics. I volunteer at The Story Museum in Oxford, which, today, held a comic festival in partnership with The Phoenix Comic, a fantastic children's weekly comic which I'd heard a lot about, but never read before. I am so glad I went and helped out. Hundreds of people, of all ages, turned up and joined in with buying comics, reading comics, drawing their own characters and coming up with their own stories. There were three huge boards in the courtyard, covered in blank panels, and several artists filled up one panel each, making a collaborative story about pirates, Vikings and mermaids taking a conflict resolution class. There was ice cream and pizza for sale, and the entire atmosphere was buzzing with excitement - everyone seemed to have caught the comic bug. On top of that, I got to meet a lot of fantastic writers and artists.
Hanging out with other comic and story lovers is one of my favourite parts of writing, whether it's Footloose or my prose stuff. Writing can be a slightly isolating job (although when you're in the middle of scribbling down some epic battle or adventure, you often forget that it's just you on your own in your room) - so meeting new people is always a great way to bounce ideas around and see how others work. And in a few weeks, I get to do it all over again at London MCM Expo!
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CONVENTION APPEARANCES:
July 5-7 London Film and Comic Con
20th July MCM Manchester
25-27th Ocotber MCM London Comic Con
November 23-24Thought Bubble Comic Con
So another Chapter of cherry is over and a new one begins! This means we will *hopefully* have the new chapter in print in time for LFCC- good news everyone!
I have just finished some very big projects I have been working on since around september last year, for computers games, so now updates should become more frequent again. more on the computer games soon, i will tell you all about it!
NEW COMICS! NEW COMICS!
Hey hey- suddenly you can buy Desigspring in print, the first four chapters are available in 2 volumes with proceeds going towards funding the next chapter! the comics are printed in greyscale, and are 28 pages each.
MORE NEW COMICS!
You can also get Footloose: Summer School in print now, Chapter 13 is in print, with more to follow as they come out!
All the old books are still available too!
Chapter 0, 1 and 2 of Cherry are available in print. Select how many books you want to buy and you'll be promtped to write in which chapters you want.
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