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360 Narratives this weekend.

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This weekend (19th and 20th of November 2011) I will be attending a workshop from Playwrights’ Studio, Scotland. The event is in Stirling and is called 360 Narratives. The point of the workshop is for individuals to ‘Challenge, Collaborate and Create’.
The purpose is to create teams to develop ideas in different media, mainly Graphic Novels, books, games, film, animation and new media.

I’m looking forward to this. The list of attendees is impressive with most people having more experience than me. Hopefully I’ll get the chance to meet some new people and develop something substantial. There is a week long residency in March 2012 for successful ideas. I am registered as a graphic novelist and I am looking to develop a cross platform idea making use of interactivity. Hopefully I’ll get the chance to meet people to collaborate with and generate some new ideas. This is a great opportunity and the workshop is free as well!!
I hope my experience in comics and animation will help and I’ll blog about how 360 Narratives goes next week.

Animal Magic Tricks on Somnambulations

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I was writing a comic book series for Wasted Magazine. This was a quarterly magazine published by Bad Press. Several months ago Bad Press went into liquidation and stop publishing. Bad Press only published 1 strip, but I had written 7.
The excellent Ronnie Tucker Illustrated the stories and we were looking forward to seeing more Animal Magic Tricks in print.
Since Bad Press went into liquidation I contacted Ronnie to see if he wanted to carry on the series as a web comic.
He suggested we host it over at his current web comic Somnabulations. At the moment Animal Magic Tricks is a guest strip over there.
I’ve put a link to the 1st strip below. More issues will come soon.
I’m glad that the strip is seeing the light of day. Ronnie’s artwork is fantastic and the series has given me a chance to practice my storytelling. Enjoy!!!

http://somnambulations.thecomicseries.com/comics/63

Comic Strip in FutureQuake #18

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I have a comic strip published in the new issue of the comic book Sci-fi anthology FutureQuake. The story is called Social Engagement eXperiment and was illustrated by Will Pickering. I am the scriptwriter for the story.
I wrote this several years ago and pitched it to 2000AD at the Birmingham International Comics Show in 2008. They were interested but never took it. After several re-writes I sent the script to FutureQuake press. I am a big fan of their comics and thought they might like the story.
Another few re-writes later, they accepted the script, where they paired me up with Will Pickering who done an excellent job in illustrating the story.
I’m so excited about seeing this in print as it was a long slog to finally getting it published. I am also a huge fan of FutureQuake, so it is great to see my work in there next to other fantastic writers and artists. Hopefully this will be a spring board to kick start my comic book writing.