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Tag Archives: The Comic Strip History of Space
Sally Kindberg’s Museum of Dust – dust from the TARDIS
As a child I was an avid listener of BBC Radio’s Journey Into Space, fell in love with Dan Dare and his adventures in Eagle comic, and in 2006 went to see Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean, fourth man to … Continue reading
Sally Kindberg in Cambridge: carols, the Astronomer Royal and Dan Dare
What do you wear when visiting an Astronomer Royal? Star socks of course. Lovely friends Bridget Marzo and Kit Prendergast invited me to join them on Christmas Eve for a festive treat – to attend a Kings Chapel Carol service then … Continue reading
Sally Kindberg’s Space Trail workshop at the Institute of Physics Family Day
What a fantastic day at the Institute of Physics on saturday at their Moon Adventure Family Day! Over one hundred and seventy people came in to draw comic strips and their journeys into space, and encouraged by an army of … Continue reading
Sally Kindberg’s comic strip workshops at the Institute of Physics
As it’s the anniversary year of the first moon landings, the current exhibition at the Institute of Physics is all about the moon, where I ran comic strip workshops yesterday. After some live drawing all about facial expressions and using … Continue reading
Sally Kindberg’s Space comic strip workshop at Belsize Park Community Library
Whooshy! Some of the many wonderful comic strips and drawings of visitors from another planet by children at the Belsize Park Community Library last week. Afterwards there was a lucky dip and the prize was The Comic Strip History of … Continue reading
Visit to Krakow
When I first decided to visit Krakow, partly because I’d heard about the Teraz Komiks! exhibition from comics guru Paul Gravett, I chose my hotel because of its name – the Copernicus. The sixteenth century Polish astronomer, famous for his … Continue reading
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Workshops at Roehampton Reads festival
Perfect weather for running open air workshops last saturday at the first Roehampton Reads festival in Heathmere Primary School, south west London. I managed to persuade the inspirational Deputy Head to join my pirate crew very briefly, before continuing … Continue reading
Workshops at Palmers Green High School
Rather surprised to see Professor Severus Snape leading assembly when I arrived to run workshops at Palmers Green High School, but then my day was full of surprises … a Suffragette librarian, witches, rabbits and all manner of book characters … Continue reading
Comic strip workshop at the Guardian Reading for Pleasure Conference
Monday was the day of the Guardian’s Reading for Pleasure Conference, where I was running a comic strip workshop for teachers and librarians. Here’s an early morning picture of my Hat of Surprise ready to go, along with assorted characters … Continue reading