It's fabulous seeing schools get on board and get creative with our Reeve & McIntyre book Jinks & O'Hare Funfair Repair! But we realised not everyone knows how the story origially came about...


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Here's my ink study for today's @StudioTeaBreak drawing challenge:


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Oo, what's all that rustling and buzzing in the garden? It's a whole cast of characters from Gary Northfield's new comic book, GARY'S GARDEN, published by David Fickling Books and out today!


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Huge congratulations to The Phoenix Comic on Issue 100!!


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Stuart and I made a drawing last night to celebrate Looshkin Day!


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Hurrah for Britain's first children's comics festival! It was awesome, and Oxford's Story Museum totally rocked. For Free Comics Book Day (4 May), The Phoenix Comic joined up with other comics creators to put on a day of comics workshops, drawing activities and convention tables. One of the most exciting parts for me was seeing two kids at their ( Read more... )

Hooray, the Fleece Station studio's in this weekend's Easter issue of The Phoenix Comic! Gary stars as Chompy the Caterpillar, I'll let you guess the other two.


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I have a dream! ...A furry, tentacled, twitching dream that one day this nation will rise up and children and grownups will make comics, side by side; people will make books and read books and swap books and love books. We will read each other's stories; we will look up from them, we will connect with each other, and we will make more stories ( Read more... )

Not only can you get the wonder that is The Phoenix Comic in lovely, good-sniffin' print format, but you can now read it on an iPad! (And other formats are in the works!) This is GREAT NEWS to all these people in other countries who've been reading my numerous Phoenix blog posts but feeling sad because it was too expensive for you to get the print ( Read more... )

Yesterday a bunch of us made our way to Oxford to shower kisses on our long-time comics editor, Ben Sharpe. Ben edited me when I wasn't even sure I could make weekly comics, through all my Vern and Lettuce strips in The DFC comics magazine, and then did it again with its reincarnation, The Phoenix Comic. He's moving on now, but he's done an amazing ( Read more... )