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Comical Animal #6 …. with added Pink Panther

Sunday, March 4, 2012

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Comical Animal Issue 6 Curated by Jim Medway By Laura Howell, Alex Potts, Rob Jackson, Gemma Correll, Rick Eades, Fred Blunt, Piotr Nowacki, Tomasz Pastuszka, Lizz Lunney,  Ryan Taylor, Steve Tillotson A welcome return to Jim Medway’s online anthology of animals that are comical, as featured in strips by some great artists every few months. This issue we have a bonus; draw [...]

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Comical Animal #6 – more animals, more comics, funny stuff….

Sunday, December 4, 2011

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Jim Medway’s Comical Animal is a quarterly online anthology, curated by Jim, containing comic strips and articles that are, like he says: “All Ages, All Species, All Fun, All Free”. Lots of goodies this time round, all set up by this brilliant image in the email announcing the new issue in my email: (Party Pig [...]

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Playing Out…. coming out in 2012

Saturday, December 3, 2011

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This is the best news I’ll get all weekend. (Barring the lottery win I’m obviously going to land later on). Blank Slate Books publisher Kenny Penman on Twitter: Yes we do. Yes, we most definitely do. Certainly in the Bruton household anyway. What’s this Playing Out comic you say?….. well, I wrote a little about [...]

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New Comical Animal online….

Friday, December 2, 2011

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By now hopefully, you’re all aware of / subscribed to the wonderful Comical Animal – Jim Medway’s quarterly online comic anthology. Well, the new issue, #6, is now online for your delight. Loads of great stuff, which I’ll hopefully get chance to tell you about later this weekend. But contributors this time round are: Jim [...]

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Comical Animal Issue 5 – out now!

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

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Comical Animal Issue 5 By Jim Medway, Woodrow Phoenix, Bridget Hannigan, Alex Potts, Rick Eades, Fred Blunt, Piotr Nowacki, Pete Hindle, Lizz Lunney, Rob Jackson, Gary Northfield, Steve Tillotson. Issue 5 of Comical Animal is out now – well, actually it was up a week ago, but sometimes life just gets in the way of covering comics. Damn you, life! [...]

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New Comical Animal Online

Friday, September 2, 2011

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I’ll do more on this when I get a moment to look at it proper, but a quick scroll through shows me that Jim Medway’s online anthology Comical Animal – now up to issue 5 – looks very, very good. Take an hour off, load it up, laugh. Unless you’re having Internet trouble…. in which [...]

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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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