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Sally Kindberg and workshops, some involving a Hat of Surprise
It’s not as if I usually wear my Hat of Surprise, but this hat is sometimes an important part of one of my many comic strip workshops, including those at schools, the Institute of Physics, the Guardian, Ledbury Poetry Festival, … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Workshops
Tagged children's book illustrator, childrens book author, comic strips, festivals, graphic storytelling, Hat of Surprise, magician's hat, museum workshops, paper houses, portraits, school workshops, storytelling, top hat, visual narrative, visual storytelling, workshops
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Sally Kindberg at the Artworkers Guild Table Top Museum
On October 12th I joined thirty other collectors of the obscure and intriguing and showed a collection of objects again at the Artworkers Guild . This time a selection of relics, votives and a shrine dedicated to Dandy comic’s Desperate … Continue reading
Posted in Exhibitions
Tagged Artworkers Guild, Beano, comic strips, comics, Dandy, DC Thomson, Desperate Dan, Dudley D Watkins, Hair, relics, votives
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Sally Kindberg’s workshops at London Zoo
If you can’t wear a pair of special ears while you’re working at London Zoo then when can you? Last week I was invited to run two visual narrative aka comic strip STORY workshops with Zoo staff, as part of … Continue reading
Posted in Workshops
Tagged comic strips, Hat of Surprise, London Zoo, storytelling, visual narratives, workshops
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Canterbury UCA workshop and talk
Last month to Canterbury University of the Creative Arts to run a workshop with MA students and give a short talk about my work. Here’s my trusty Hat of Surprise with prompts for students to make four frame visual narratives, … Continue reading
Posted in Workshops
Tagged 4 frame visual narratives, Canterbury UCA, comic strips, workshop with MA students
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Sally Kindberg’s notebooks (more of them)
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.
Posted in Comic strips, Notebooks
Tagged comic strips, notebooks, travel notes, work in progress
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Sally Kindberg’s workshop this summer at Swedenborg House
Drawing! With music! This summer I’ll be joined by two acclaimed musicians at my House of Dreams workshop held in Swedenborg House. Inspired by tales of 18th century writer, philosopher, scientist and inventor Emanuel Swedenborg and his summer house, you’ll … Continue reading
Sally Kindberg will talk about her work in May at Graphic Brighton
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.
Posted in Comic strips, Events
Tagged CBBC comic strips, comic strips, Fishboy, fishing, Graphic Brighton, online safety, seaside
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Sally Kindberg’s work in progress, a comic strip mystery/memoir
When I was very small I visited Sweden with my mother and my much older sister. During our visit we went to Skansen, a folk museum. For years afterwards, my mother denied we’d ever been to Sweden, despite letters (and … Continue reading