This week, my fellow abductees and I have been thinking about COMICS. One of our readers, Adam (Hi, Adam!) responded to Andy’s post below with the following: All of the comics and graphic novels you have suggested would be hard for me (and a lot of kids) to get. Because with internet comic shops you [...]
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A few words and lots of pictures…
As I have been lucky enough to have the opportunity to write comics, or rather graphic novels, I thought I’d end our themed week with my thoughts and a blatant plug. It always surprises me when people snub comics as inferior products, or refuse to class them as an art form. The skills that are [...]
Words and Pictures Part Two*
*The theme of this year’s Booktrust Children’s Book Week is Words and Pictures. That got me (and my fellow cave denizens – hurrah!) thinking about COMICS. Scroll down, or click here for part one. Now read on… Here are the covers of the first three volumes of Death Note, written by Tsugumi Ohba, with art [...]
A GOOD EXCUSE FOR ANOTHER POEM…
Turns out it’s Poetry Day today. They’ve been all over the news going on about TS Eliot and the like. And frankly that’s all I need to put forth something I felt oddly compelled to write earlier this year. I fully expect a returning volley of similarly silly verse from the rest of you… A [...]
Misunderstanding Comix
So this week is all about Words and Pictures, is it? Well, I like words. I like pictures too. So why was I never into comics? I remember loving the Asterix books, but I never moved on from those to other comics. Not even Tintin! To be honest, I don’t really remember seeing any comics. [...]
Words and Pictures (part one – maybe ;p)
This week (Oct 5th – 11th) is Booktrust Children’s Book Week. a nationwide celebration of reading for pleasure for young people here in the UK. The theme this year is Words and Pictures. They’re focusing on picture books, which is awesome of course, but I want to talk about another type of visual storytelling — [...]
The Normals Are Coming!
Despite being trapped in a dark, damp cave by unspeakable monsters – I’m very excited at the moment… Scream Street 7: Invasion of the Normals is published by Walker Books today! Exactly a year after the first four Scream Street books appeared, SS7 sees Luke, Resus and Cleo up against the most terrible creatures of [...]
Two Things That Annoy Me In Children’s Books
In a couple of weeks I’m running a workshop for adults on how to write for children. So this afternoon I’ve been composing my thoughts and putting a few things together. There’s a lot that I don’t know, but there’s also a lot I won’t be able to fit in. I’ve decided to focus on [...]
Big Bang Monster Trap
I was recently sent this from a fan. Despite being an author, illustrator, web-designer, to name but a few of her skills, she obviously has enough spare time to read my books (and why not?), as well as come up with bizarre ideas like the brilliant Big Bang Monster Trap. So clever is the concept [...]
Catch GONE before it’s … er … gone
A while back, Mark posted this review of the utterly brilliant young adult novel, GONE. I agreed with every word – in fact, I’d go so far as to say that GONE is one of the best books I’ve ever read. When the book was released, the publisher, Egmont, made it available to read online [...]
