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Category Archives: Festivals
Duck Racing
Never completely successful at horse-racing, I decided to have a go with Ducks. As everyone knows, Lyme Regis became famous for its Duck Races after Conger Coddling (involving a frozen dead eel – don’t ask) was banned. Apparently Duck Racing, … Continue reading
Posted in Drawings, Festivals, Sketchbooks, Travels
Tagged Dorset, Lyme Regis, notebooks, seaside, travels
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China trip part five
Having drawn the Great Wall of China for the Comic Strip History of the World, I wanted to see the real thing. One free morning in Beijing before I left for London – but the cold and foggy conditions … Continue reading
Posted in Festivals, Travels
Tagged bactrian, Beijing, Bookworm, cable car, China, fog, ice, Ming, Mutinanyu, Snickers, The Comic Strip History of the World, the Great Wall, tickets, travel, typography
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China trip part four
The Bookworm Festival included a visit to a school run by the Migrant Children’s Foundation for children whose parents have been drawn from the countryside to work in China’s cities. A car picked us up from the Opposite House and drove … Continue reading
Posted in Festivals, Sketchbooks, Travels
Tagged bicycle, blackboard, cheese sandwich, China, comic strip, corgis, crown, drawings, fog, Forbidden City, glasses, interpreter, Migrant Childrens Foundation, Ring Road, Sally Kindberg, school, smile, story, the Bookworm, the Queen, umbrella
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China trip part three
Five hours travelling north from Suzhou to Beijing was a 302 km/h elevated and foggy whizz through countryside rapidly being converted into blocks of flats, roads cut into raw earth and forest of pylons. Luckily all the seats face forward as I … Continue reading
Posted in Festivals, Sketchbooks, Travels
Tagged Beijing, Bookworm Festival, bullet train, China, dinosaurs, hotel, Kengo Kuma, park, playground, Post-It, Sally Kindberg, schools, snow, talks, the Opposite House, travels, weather, workshops
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China trip part two
Flew north to Shanghai, met by large poet Butler who was also taking part in the three cities’ Beijing Bookworm Festival, in Suzhou, a very boring 2 hours’ drive west of Shanghai along grey motorways. Suzhou is a delight, a … Continue reading
Cartoon Museum/Bloomsbury festival
Ooh I do like getting children to pull faces! On your way to meet a friend in the park and faced with a lurking Cyclops, what do you do? Forty children and adults at London’s Cartoon Museum came up with … Continue reading
V&A Big Draw
Great space and several teenagers wandered in slowly (as they do) to discover my Department of Mysterious Objects, comic strip style. Lovely to see Sue Grayson Ford, director of the Campaign for Drawing, having a look at the Big Draw events on offer. … Continue reading
The Guardian Big Draw
Another very busy day running comic strip workshops, this time for the Guardian at Kings Place. Lively groups of children used comic strip narratives to trick a Cyclops who had very bad dietary habits (Children on toast – yum! etc) Great stuff. … Continue reading
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Tagged comic strips, Cyclops, Greek Myths, Sally Kindberg, the Guardian, the Guardian Big Draw, workshop
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Frinton on Sea Literary Festival
Early start and very busy day running interactive comic strip workshops at two schools. My charming Festival minders Gerald (motor-home owner and sea- kayak-er) and Sally J of Caxton Books kindly drove me round and generally looked after me. Frinton … Continue reading