Tag Archive | "Jim Medway"

Jim Medway’s evening entertainment – Playing Out

Saturday, June 11, 2011

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When Jim Medway came up to our primary school to deliver his Create Comics Workshop, there was a huge problem.  Molly thinks he’s great and I’d half promised a long time ago, when Molly first discovered Medway’s Crab Lane Crew in the pages of the DFC, that if ever she had chance to go to [...]

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Comical Animal Issue 4 – online and free to all now…

Sunday, June 5, 2011

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Comical Animal 4 By Jim Medway, Alex Potts, Lizz Lunney, Joe List, Francesca Cassavetti, Rob Jackson, Gary Northfield, Steve Tillotson, Ed Syder. The Jim Medway curated funny animal online comic Comical Animal is back for it’s fourth issue with the usual great quality animal strips from the guest artists. There’s even an added educational value this issue with the debut of Jim Medway’s “Spectacular [...]

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Comical Animal 4 – out now!

Friday, June 3, 2011

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More later this weekend when I get chance, but just a quick note and a link – the Jim Medway curated Comical Animal issue 4 is out in the wild right now. But for now.. have these words from the sponsors: (Jim Medway’s rats make a glorious bid for freedom) (And this had me spluttering [...]

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…. And what did Jim Medway think of the work done at his comic workshop?

Sunday, May 29, 2011

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After finishing our February Create Comics Workshop with Jim Medway (I wrote about it here), Year 5 & 6 completed some great feedback forms that we emailed to Jim (again – here). But the big surprise came after half term. Jim had had the chance to read through ALL of the Year 5 & 6 mini-comics [...]

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Feedback from Jim Medway’s Create Comics workshop

Saturday, May 28, 2011

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Following the brilliant Create Comics workshop in February with Jim Medway (our report here), the Year 5 & 6s at school sent feedback to Jim. But how best to send feedback for a comic course? Oh yes…… We had sheet after sheet of these! I think you can see just from these couple of sheets [...]

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Jim Medway’s Create Comics Workshop….

Friday, May 27, 2011

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Back in February, the primary school I work at (you know – the one with the great library) had the pleasure of hosting comic artist Jim Medway for his two-day Create Comics workshop. Apologies for the delay – it took a little longer than expected to get the permissions necessary to post this! The whole [...]

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Comical Animal Issue 3. More animals, more comedy…..

Sunday, April 17, 2011

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Comical Animal 3 By Jim Medway, Fred Blunt, Rick Eades, Alex Potts, Lizz Lunney, Joe List, Francesca Cassavetti, Rob Jackson, Gary Northfield Issue 3 of Jim Medway‘s excellent online comic Comical Animal anthology is ready and awaiting for your attention. And thanks to an extremely busy couple of weeks on my part, it has been since the beginning of April. This time round, the whole thing [...]

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An Okapi doing a wee – now that’s a Comical Animal…

Saturday, April 2, 2011

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No time to really talk about this yet, but have just had a look through the new online issue of Comical Animal, Jim Medway’s bi-monthly online publication for comic, cartoon and kids books afficianados. There’s lots and lots of great strips. But this made me howl: It’s all in the tilt of the head and the [...]

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Comical Animal 2 – out now!

Saturday, February 12, 2011

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Jim Medway’s second edition of Comical Animal, his collaborative blog-mag, is out now. And, just like before, it’s rather full of a host of really lovely strips, cartoons and art from a long list of artists. It’s turning into a regular treat and this time round there’s even the added extra of a X-Factor style “Animal Factor” [...]

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More Medway

Monday, December 6, 2010

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Kenny has been following up his original Q&A with Jim Medway we posted on Friday and we’ve now updated it; in addition to discussing the launch of the new Comical Animal bimonthly online series they both discuss getting younger readers interested in comics in the face of various other distractions and the relative merits of [...]

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Comical Animals….

Sunday, December 5, 2010

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Comical Animal Issue 1 – December 2010 Various Artists (full list) Curated by Jim Medway Here it is, issue one of Jim Medway’s online project Comical Animals. A collection of pieces, cartoon and text all revolving around one simple idea: “…….a bi-monthly online publication for comic, cartoon and kids books afficianados. It’ll be taking shape [...]

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Comical Animal Launches: an Interview with Jim Medway

Friday, December 3, 2010

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Jim Medway is a well known name in the UK comics field, with his own work (his Crab Lane Crew in the DFC was a particular favourite of our own Richard and Molly), comics workshops and now a new project, an online, bi-monthly comic drawing on a range of contributing talents and aimed squarely at [...]

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Comical Animal – out 3rd December…

Sunday, November 28, 2010

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Jim Medway’s Comical Animal online magazine for comic, cartoon and children’s book fans launches on Friday, not necessarily all comical animals, but there’s certainly bound to be some of those. There’s a preview issue online right now and I just had to share this brilliant image by Medway – his way of summarising why he [...]

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Comical Animals – The Preview Issue

Sunday, September 5, 2010

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Jim Medway’s latest project is out in the wild with it’s preview issue. Comical Animal is both a blog and “a bi-monthly online publication for comic, cartoon and kids books afficianados“. And it’s going to be great. In fact, with the preview issue featuring a handful of very familiar names to the FPI blog on [...]

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Comical Animals coming soon…..

Monday, August 30, 2010

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Jim Medway’s new online Comical Animal project, concerning itself (as you can probably guess) with all things funny animal in popular culture is due to head out for it’s first (preview) issue. On the website Medway says: “Mark this date upon your calendars – Friday 3rd September – for that is when I’ll be putting out [...]

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