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Snow Ghost
In May 2025 a BBC2 programme showed a venue called SantaClaus Village in Rovaneimi, Northern Finland, on the Arctic Circle, where tourists could visit Father Christmas all the year round and meet his attendant elves. The unusual thing about … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Work in progress, Writing
Tagged dreaming, Finland, graphic novel, handwriting, handwritten text, illusionist, mothers, mystery/memoir, Snow Ghost, the Winter War, work in progress
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Snowy
Years ago I worked part-time at a Camden bookshop, before having my first series of children’s books published by Grafton. The bookshop is long gone, its site now occupied by a Tortilla takeaway.My Saturday task was to cash up the … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Drawings, Events, Writing
Tagged Camden Town, childrens books, competition, Fascinating facts, handwriting, Herge, London bookshops, notebook drawing, Snowy, Somerset House, Tintin
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Sally Kindberg and the House of Mysterious Objects
Another workshop event at Swedenborg House on April 16th. Check their site to register for a free ticket. You could bring your own mysterious object to draw, although there are plenty of mysterious things in situ. You could also could … Continue reading
Sally Kindberg and the General Election
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
Sally Kindberg and a glimpse of childhood
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.
Sally Kindberg, Nottingham Castle and a work in progress again
Nottingham Castle often features in my stories. When a small child, I often had to stay in my grandmother’s house, one of whose cellars had a bricked up door, apparently leading to a network of tunnels honeycombing the nearby castle … Continue reading
Posted in Drawings, Work in progress
Tagged black and white drawings, comic strips story, cosmic ray experiments, fog, handwriting, handwritten text, Mrs. Shipstone's frock, mystery/memoir, Nottingham, Nottingham Castle, Nottingham Park Estate, Nottingham tunnels, Nottingham University, tunnels, Victorian frock, visual narrative, work in progress
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Sally Kindberg and secret letters
Yesterday I went to see ‘Hidden Letters’ a film directed by Violet Du Feng about nushu, a secret calligraphic system invented and used by women in the nineteenth century (and probably even earlier) in rural China to communicate with and … Continue reading
Sally Kindberg and mysterious handwriting
This is from STRANGER, my ongoing comic strip mystery memoir, a work in progress. The frame above refers to the difficulty of writing a letter when told many times in the past that doing so would have dire consequences. The … Continue reading
Posted in Drawings, Handwriting, Writing
Tagged automatic writing, comic strip frame, fragments, handwriting, story, stranger, very short story, writing
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Sally Kindberg’s notes about her childhood in Nottingham
This seems to be a recurring theme (far too often?) in notes for my graphic mystery/memoir. From the age of three I occasionally stayed at my grandmother’s house in Nottingham, periods coinciding with my mother disappearing, then turning up with … Continue reading