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The Boss Interview…..

Thursday, December 29, 2011

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After Daniel, Ailie, and Emily reviewed (and thoroughly enjoyed – see their review) The Boss, we arranged for some of Year 6 to send John and Patrice Aggs some email questions, just as we did with James Turner and The Etherington Brothers. Thanks very much to Daniel, Ailie, Emily, Joel, and Rosie for the questions, [...]

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The Etherington Brothers interviewed by Mia & Owen (Year 6)

Sunday, December 18, 2011

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A few weeks ago, one of the pupils at the school in which I work reviewed The Etherington Brothers Baggage graphic novel (Mia’s Baggage review), and it was a great review, just her latest, and with a lot of thought and a lot of work put into it. The Etheringtons were impressed as well, and gladly [...]

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Super Animals… James Turner Interviewed.

Friday, December 16, 2011

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A few weeks ago, Ryan in Year 6 read and reviewed James Turner’s Graphic Novel Super Animal Adventure Squad. Ryan’s part of a growing team of graphic novel and comic readers and reviewers at the school I work at. And it was a great review, showing just how much Ryan had enjoyed the book, and [...]

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The Etherington’s Baggage reviewed by Mia (Year 6)

Sunday, November 20, 2011

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More DFC Reviews from the super-talented pupils at school. This time it’s the Etherington Brothers’ madcap adventure Baggage. And the review is written by Mia, the very talented reviewer from Year 6 who we last heard from when she reviewed Spider-Moon for us so very well. Here she goes again….. Baggage By The Etherington Brothers [...]

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Super Animal Adventure Squad…. a review by Lewis, Year 4!

Saturday, November 19, 2011

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More reviews from the children at school now. We’re having a great time with the new crop of DFC Library books now, with The Boss, Baggage and Super Animal Adventure Squad not having made it to the shelves yet! They’re in such high demand for reviews that there simply hasn’t been a chance to get [...]

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Late Hallowe’en wishes from the Etheringtons….

Saturday, November 12, 2011

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Missed this when it came out last week, but so nice I had to point it out, even late. The Etherington Brothers present a little spooky bit of Baggage.

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Told you it was good – what the kids think about THE BOSS!

Thursday, November 3, 2011

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We were fortunate enough to receive some great pre-release copies of the latest round of DFC Library graphic novels, at the primary school where I’m meant to be an ICT Technician, but seem to spend most of the time talking about comics to the children! And a group of very pleased Year 6s got their [...]

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The Boss – Enid Blyton, Three Investigators, Bourne without the bullets…. this is great!

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

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The Boss Written by John Aggs, art by Patrice Aggs DFC Library When I was young I spent a wonderful summer around the age of 10 meeting up with my cousins and going exploring. Took our bikes, rode off, only going back for lunch (if we were hungry) and tea. We went miles that holiday, [...]

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Super Animal Adventure Squad…

Saturday, October 22, 2011

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The children at school have been reading and reviewing the latest crop of DFC releases before they go on the library shelves, and we’re going to be posting a few of them up on the blog here. Here’s the first one back for James Turner’s comedy misadventure Super Animal Adventure Squad by Ryan in Year [...]

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Super Animal Adventure Squad – younger readers comedy from the DFC

Friday, October 7, 2011

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Super Animal Adventure Squad By James Turner The DFC Library The concept’s simple in Super Animal Adventure Squad – take five very inept super-agents; Agent K, Bearbot, Irwin, Rex, and Beesley and throw them into an adventure they’ll solve despite themselves, as they blunder through it all, through accident and mishap, and lots and lots of comedy. [...]

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The Etherington Brothers bring their Baggage to the DFC Library

Thursday, October 6, 2011

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Baggage By Robin and Lorenzo Etherington The DFC Library Baggage is the first original graphic novel from the DFC library (everything else so far has been collected from the pages of the DFC Comic) and also the first DFC Library title to repeat a creative team, as the Etherington Brothers’ was published in September 2010. I enjoyed [...]

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The Spider Moon Book 1 – a review by Mia (age 9)

Monday, July 11, 2011

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In my role as Librarian at my Yorkshire Primary School, we’ve been very, very successful in building a big graphic novel library. I’ve written about the genesis of that previously on the FPI Blog (here and here). Well, it’s a tremendous success. Our children now love their graphic novels and comics. It’s helping to make [...]

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Phoenix news….

Sunday, May 29, 2011

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Well, not really news, just a new blog post with their logo, and confirmation of the sorts of things to expect in January 2012 when new weekly children’s comic The Phoenix is launched. Just 7 months to go now. (Thanks to Lew Stringer for the heads-up)

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Frontier joins the ever growing list of DFC alumni books….

Saturday, May 14, 2011

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Jason Cobley and Andrew Wildman’s Frontier strip is the latest comic from the DFC to get a graphic novel collection. It’s being published by Print Media, with hopefully a November 2011 release at Leeds ThoughtBubble festival. This from artist Andrew Wildman: “The soon to appear Frontier book has now had all the pages reformatted. this is due [...]

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Fancy submitting to Phoenix?

Saturday, April 23, 2011

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Well here’s your chance. The Phoenix Comic – a new weekly children’s comic, launching in 2012, has it’s submissions page live now. It’s being put together by the team behind the much loved, much missed (at least in the Bruton household), DFC Comic.

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