Gum Girl Volume 1 – Catastrophe Calling By Andi Watson Walker Books I did my review of Andi Watson’s great new Gum Girl series a few days ago, but I’m not who the book is aimed at, not by many years! So Walker Books and Andi were kind enough to donate some copies to the [...]
Continue reading...Monday, March 26, 2012
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Director’s Commentary posts are all about turning the FPI blog over to an artist to allow them to talk about their latest thing. And I’m delighted to be able to introduce Andi Watson for a commentary. Making comics since the early 90s, his bibliography has an eclectic feel; there’s a little Buffy, a couple of [...]
Continue reading...Monday, March 19, 2012
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Gum Girl Volume 1 – Catastrophe Calling By Andi Watson Walker Books It’s been nearly two years since Andi Watson’s last four volume series for Walker Books finished. That was Glister, and it was as sweet, sentimental, full of a melancholy wistfulness as you could wish for, a perfect little comic for adults AND children, [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, February 12, 2012
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The Gum Girl website has the latest few pages of their serialisation of Andi Watson’s new book for Walker Books. We’re all rather looking forward to this, with several of the children at school already asking when it’s out. (The answer’s 1st March!) here’s the start of the very strange, very gummy secret origin of [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, February 5, 2012
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Yes, I mentioned some of this a while back, but until Watson gets to be top of the bestseller lists with each and every new book, I’ll keep putting his lovely artwork up here. His new series from Walker Books has now been announced, with Volume 1 out in March and Volume 2 due late [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, January 15, 2012
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On the schedules – the first volume in Watson’s Gum Girl series gets released by Walker Books 1st March. I think this may well find its way into the school library: “Gum Girl might be pink, but she’s got bite, she’s got bubbles, and she’s not afraid to use them. Grace Gibson has just moved [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, October 8, 2011
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Andi Watson’s new series gets a cover, a release date and at least some details. It’s called Gum Girl (but we knew that). It’s coming from Walker Books in March 2012, and will be in a series of 4 volumes, with at least the first one; Catastrophe Calling, having three short stories in its 64 [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, October 1, 2011
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No idea, but they’re from Andi Watson, and they’re lovely. So far, just the four members…. maybe part of his new series Gum Girl- due out from Walker in 2012? All images from Andi’s Flickr… all rights reserved. Andi will be appearing at “The Big Draw” at Worcester City Museum, next Saturday – 8th October.
Continue reading...Friday, June 24, 2011
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Wise words from Andi Watson & Glister…. and there’s one for writers as well.
Continue reading...Sunday, April 17, 2011
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First volume coming in early 2012, this is the teaser image from Watson’s next series from Walker Books. See, it’s not just Marvel and DC who do press releases with extensively blacked out characters!
Continue reading...Sunday, December 19, 2010
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From his Livejournal and sketckbook…. just simple and gorgeous:
Continue reading...Friday, November 26, 2010
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Andi Watson has a cold <sniff>
Continue reading...Saturday, May 15, 2010
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According to Watson’s Facebook, these are just for fun, but they are lovely – Andi Watson illustrates a few fonts (more at the link):
Continue reading...Saturday, April 24, 2010
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This years Hay Literary Festival takes place from 27th May – 6th June. And it’s rather embraced comics this year – or perhaps, looking at the comic related events it’s more accurate to say that the book publishers who have a hand in Graphic Novel publishing have decided to heavily promote their comics at the [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, April 6, 2010
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Glister – The Family Tree by Andi Watson Walker Books The fourth and final (at least for now) tale in Andi Watson’s saga of Glister Butterworth; who is, as I said back in my review of Glister: The Haunted Teapot: “……a strange magnet. …. wherever she goes, strange things happen around her. She lives with [...]
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Wednesday, March 28, 2012
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