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Beano Revitalised By Dennis the Menace Digital Spin-Off

December 5, 2017 By achuka Leave a Comment

The Observer has reported on the resurgence of Dennis the Menace:

Viewing data this week will show the cartoon series Dennis & Gnasher Unleashed has become the top show on the BBC’s children’s channel CBBC in its first week, and the 10th most-watched programme in the country among children aged six to 12, alongside The X Factor and Strictly Come Dancing.

It is a lifeline for Britain’s longest-running comic, founded in 1938, which has seen weekly sales slide from 2m in its 1950s heyday to around 35,000 today. As well as a new website, app and TV venture, there are plans for live shows, merchandising, partnerships and even films and fashion tie-ups.

If it all seems a million miles from the days when Biffo the Bear and Lord Snooty ruled the comic’s pages, then that’s because it is.

“It’s about recreating the characters for the 21st century and getting into the zeitgeist of children across the UK,” says Emma Scott, chief executive of Beano Studios, set up last year by the comic’s publishers, Dundee-based DC Thomson, to steer the brand into the digital era. “What we’re trying to do is galvanise the love and the affection, and the very high trust levels that we have among parents.”

>>> https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/dec/03/dennis-the-menace-beano-dandy-minnie-the-minx

Filed Under: Blog, Books Tagged With: cartoon, comic

SuperTed to be back on TV as creator confirms new series

February 22, 2016 By achuka Leave a Comment

Children’s cartoon hero SuperTed is set to return to British TV screens after its creator revealed plans for a new series.
Animator Mike Young said the flying crimefighting bear should be back after 30 years before the end of the year.
The hit show was initially written in Welsh and shown on S4C, but was soon translated into English and ran for several years on the BBC in the 1980s.

via SuperTed to be back on TV as creator confirms new series – Telegraph.

Filed Under: Blog, Books Tagged With: cartoon, character, series

WebComic Artist’s New Book Uses Nancy Drew Covers

September 24, 2015 By achuka Leave a Comment

IT’S NOT EASY to describe Hark! A Vagrant to someone who hasn’t read it. The webcomic by Canadian cartoonist Kate Beaton is perhaps best known for riffing hilariously on historical characters from legends like Napoleon Bonaparte and Julius Caesar to more obscure and underappreciated figures like Nikola Tesla. In her new book collection Step Aside, Pops, Beaton spins out strips that poke fun at superheroes, use the covers of Nancy Drew novels as creative prompts, imagine Fox Mulder of the X-Files as a Jane Austen heroine, and even riff for 11 pages on the Janet Jackson music video “Nasty.”

via How Internet Magic Helped a Quirky Cartoonist Find Success | WIRED.

Filed Under: Blog, Books Tagged With: cartoon, cartoonist, drawings, webcartoonist, webcomic

Putting More Diversity in Comics and Illustration: The #NonIdentikit Challenge | Sarah McIntyre in Huffington Post

January 29, 2015 By achuka Leave a Comment

As an illustrator, I want to see a variety of people in illustrations, and see people push their drawings further to be… not just diverse and inclusive (which is hugely important) but… interesting.

via Putting More Diversity in Comics and Illustration: Why I’m Taking the #NonIdentikit Challenge | Sarah McIntyre.

So thinking and wondering about all this, I’ve set myself a challenge: Draw 20 female faces that don’t fit this identikit model but are still striking or beautiful. Arresting enough that if I saw them in the street, I’d turn around and think, WHOA! Faces that aren’t standard Hollywood ingenue or female superhero, but I can’t stop looking. Sometimes they’ll be from non-white ethnicities, sometimes they’ll be the white teenager or 20-something women that illustrators I know seem to prefer drawing, but with a difference. A heavier chin, a big nose, a monobrow, at least one variation that we get in real life.

Three tips if you’re not sure where to start:
1. Draw from life.
2. Study old master drawings and adapt portraits to suit your own modern taste.
3. Just experiment a bit.

Check the Twitter hash tag – #NonIdentikit – for updates, and feel free to use the hash tag to contribute your own! Y

Here are a few snapshots of experimental #NonIdentikit sketches I’ve already posted on Twitter, and a few other people have already jumped in to try their own.

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Filed Under: Blog, Books Tagged With: cartoon, comics, conformity, diversity, faces, generic, identikit, illustration, illustrator, nonidentikti, sketchbook, ssketch

My hero: Sir John Tenniel by Chris Riddell

January 13, 2014 By achuka Leave a Comment

Chris Riddell picks Sir John Tenniel as his Hero in The Guardian’s weekly Review feature:

As a child I copied Tenniel’s illustrations from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland obsessively, particularly his drawing of the white rabbit in waistcoat and frockcoat, umbrella tucked under one arm and a fob watch in paw, a look of suppressed panic in his eye. I loved analysing the shading, intricate lines of cross-hatching, the folds of the sleeve, the tilt of the head, that wide-eyed rabbit stare. Tenniel was one of the reasons I became an illustrator.

via My hero: Sir John Tenniel by Chris Riddell | Books | The Guardian.

Filed Under: Blog, Books, Photography/Art Tagged With: Alice, cartoon, cartoonist, Chris Riddell, illustration, illustrator, John Tenniel, Lewis Carroll

Simon & Schuster to launch over a dozen Peanuts children’s titles in summer 2015

January 4, 2014 By achuka Leave a Comment

Simon & Schuster to launch over a dozen Peanuts children’s titles in summer 2015

Peanuts Worldwide has signed a wide-ranging publishing deal with Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing, marking the first time in eight years that Snoopy and friends have had a master licensee in place for children’s books. S&S will create formats including 8 x 8s, ready-to-reads, storybooks, board books, and novelty titles, with content extending from original stories and adaptations of holiday TV specials to movie tie-ins. The summer 2015 launch will feature 12–15 titles.

via Simon & Schuster Signs On as Peanuts Master Publisher.

Filed Under: Blog, Books Tagged With: cartoon, character, Peanuts, Simon&Schuster

Andy Griffiths TV cartoon to premiere tomorrow

September 20, 2013 By achuka Leave a Comment

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A TV cartoon based on Andy Griffiths’ The Day My Bum Went Psycho (Pan) will premiere in Australia tomorrow.
The 80-episode series called The Day My Butt Went Psycho will screen its first episode at 8am on Saturday 21 September on the GO! channel. The series is co-produced by Australian production company Studio Moshi and Canadian company Nelvana, in association with Scholastic USA.

via Andy Griffiths TV cartoon to premiere tomorrow.

Filed Under: Blog, Books Tagged With: adaptation, Australia, cartoon, TV

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