Category Archives: Comic strips

Sally Kindberg’s workshop at Herne Bay’s Cartoonists Festival 2024

Posted on August 14, 2024 by SallyK

On 3rd August I headed to Herne Bay’s Beach Creative HQ to run a workshop, part of the annual Cartoonists Festival.  Not only families drew impressive comic strips – the youngest was five years old –  professional cartoonists joined in … Continue reading →

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Sally Kindberg and the General Election

Posted on July 8, 2024 by SallyK

Drawn in haste (I was ill so drawing delayed) in the early morning of July 4th, spurred on by the efforts of The Comics Cultural Impact Collective, who encouraged comic strip creators to contact their MP-to-be.  Mine is now PM. … Continue reading →

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Sally Kindberg and a glimpse of childhood

Posted on December 4, 2023 by SallyK

A glimpse of childhood, originally part of Stranger, a work-in-progress but quite possibly in another form or even another story.  Struwwelpeter was a big early influence.  And the Grimm Brothers.

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Sally Kindberg and quails in space (again)

Posted on March 24, 2023 by SallyK

Thinking about quails again at the moment (as you do), and currently drawing a new story, a distraction I admit from a slowly ongoing and more complicated project. The comic strip above was part of an earlier iteration. Animal pioneers … Continue reading →

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Sally Kindberg and more notes for Stranger, a graphic work in progress

Posted on March 15, 2023 by SallyK

 Early events were disturbing: gaslighting, mysterious letters, a bit of levitation, the occasional exorcism.  And a missing father.  Later, after happier times, when the person you trust the most says ‘I’m not who you think I am’, you start asking … Continue reading →

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Sally Kindberg meets Robin Hood again

Posted on November 19, 2022 by SallyK

Last weekend on my visit to Nottingham I noticed Robin Hood’s arrow had been replaced.  It was often stolen.  Robin features briefly in my work in progress (see notebook above). Interesting to note he now has a second job, like … Continue reading →

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Sally Kindberg and the death of a brother

Posted on August 14, 2022 by SallyK

Early on Sunday 31st July my dear brother Christopher died. He was in hospital for three months, at University College Hospital and the Neurological hospital in London.  I read to him and held his hand when I visited over the … Continue reading →

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Sally Kindberg’s notebooks (more of them)

Posted on May 2, 2022 by SallyK

Pages from a few of my many notebooks in the last year.  I use my notebooks as a visual diary, a nursery for new ideas or notes for work in progress.

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Sally Kindberg’s ‘Stranger’, a work in progress – not a children’s book this time

Posted on February 24, 2022 by SallyK

Given this morning’s news of the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, this rough frame from my current work in progress – a comic strip mystery memoir – sadly seems very a propos.  It illustrates an extract from a ten year … Continue reading →

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Sally Kindberg will talk about her work in May at Graphic Brighton

Posted on February 21, 2022 by SallyK

Looking forward to talking about my work, for younger audiences this time, and meeting other comic strip creators at Graphic Brighton this May. Extract from Fishboy above, and below, from a series of comic strips  for CBBC.

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