Tag Archive | "Sarah McIntyre"

Sarah McIntyre: new book and the comics-picture book crossover

Sunday, September 4, 2011

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Fave of the FPI Blog, illustrator and author Sarah McIntyre, has a new book out. It’s You Can’t Scare A Princess, by Gillian Rogerson and Sarah McIntyre and is the follow up to their first collaboration You Can’t Eat A Princess. Yes, it’s a picture book and not a comic, but the line between the [...]

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Sarah’s Book Festival

Thursday, September 1, 2011

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I’ve been meaning to post a link to one of our regular faves, Sarah McIntyre’s blog. Sarah was up to host some comics and arts classes for kids at the recent Edinburgh International Book Festival and I managed to catch up with her, the pair of us going along to the Free Fringe in this [...]

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Sarah McIntyre’s China travelogue concludes…..

Friday, August 12, 2011

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… and it’s been typically rather great. 61 pages of great in fact. Read the whole thing at the DFB website and remember to follow Sarah at her Live Journal. Now, Sarah… how about a print copy?

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Sarah McIntyre’s awfully comical Chinese adventure…

Sunday, July 31, 2011

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You know, one great thing about Sarah McIntyre (and there are many), is that whenever I find myself writing about her I can usually use the phrase; “and here’s the comic she drew about it”. For example, a few weeks ago she decided that she was going to have a break from the Internet…. and [...]

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Sarah McIntyre…. Monsters and Royalty…

Sunday, June 5, 2011

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A couple of bits from Sarah McIntyre’s blog…. First up, the opening of the fantastic looking Monsterville at Stratford’s Discover Centre in NE London – lots more pics at Sarah’s Live Journal entry. “….the construction team had been working late into the night yesterday so it would be ready when Neal Layton, Ed Vere and I arrived to see [...]

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Sarah goes to Dartmoor….

Saturday, May 28, 2011

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Sarah McIntyre (Vern & Lettuce, Morris The Mankiest Monster, You Can’t Eat A Princess, When Titus Took The Train) not only creates lovely pictures, not only makes wonderful comics but also manages to maintain a highly readable and entertaining Live Journal blog. Her life seems to be a constant stream of incredibly fun book based [...]

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Octo-Hat!

Monday, May 2, 2011

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No matter what you thought about the Royal Wedding, one thing is certain, Princess Beatrice deserves a little credit for THAT hat. And Sarah McIntyre – who’s been known to wear her own uniques headgear occasionally – comes up with the perfect image to celebrate a bit of Royal fashion bravery:

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Three cartoonists, two comics festivals, two coasts.

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

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Ellen Lindner has posted up a report and a whole bunch of photographs from the recent US outing for her, Sarah McIntyre and Cliodhna Lyons, who were at MoCCA in New York with several other creators from the Brit Indy comics scene, then the three of them crossed to the opposite side of America for [...]

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Brit Indy comics folks at MoCCA this weekend!

Friday, April 8, 2011

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New York City is host to MoCCA over the 9th and 10th of April, boasting some fabulous guests such as Peter Bagge, Nick Bertozzi, Jules Feiffer, Pascal Girard, Dean Haspiel, Ben Katchor, Chip Kidd, Michael Kupperman, Gahan Wilson, Adrian Tomine, Bill Plympton, Jessica Abel, Kate Beaton and many more, alongside some our favourite publishers like [...]

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Pickles anyone?

Saturday, April 2, 2011

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Sarah McIntyre’s Pickle Rye magazine, her fan produced collection of comics and more from the town where Vern & Lettuce live has been attracting some great submissions recently for the soon to be published second issue, from smallest, youngest fans to comic pros. But one of the best so far comes from Nigel Dobbyn, artist on [...]

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Vern & Lettuce off to the farm – and you can join in….

Sunday, February 6, 2011

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Sarah McIntyre’s Vern & Lettuce spent Christmas at a farm over Christmas and Sarah’s done a frankly adorable pdf cut out and make tractor for the occasion (yep, apologies – really late flagging this up). Meanwhile, since doing that pre-Christmas Sarah’s been involved in a literary game of consequences organised by Polly Dunbar (whose brilliant Penguin has [...]

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Laydeez Do Comics: Posy Simmonds

Thursday, December 16, 2010

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The super-sparkly Sarah McIntyre reports on Monday’s Laydeez Do Comics gig which saw one of her personal faves as guest, Posy Simmonds.Words, photos and naturally, Sarah being Sarah, some sketches can be found on her LiveJournal: (sketch from the Posy Simmonds night at Ladyeez Do Comics, by and (c) Sarah McIntyre, shamelessly borrowed from her [...]

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How do you deal with a bad, bad review? Just like this:

Saturday, November 6, 2010

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Here at the FPI blog the majority of our reviews tend to be pretty positive, for the simple reason that we really would rather spend our time and yours talking about all that’s good in comics rather than shouting about the bad. We’re not averse to writing about some bad, bad comics, and just occasionally something we [...]

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Upcoming – Crystal Palace Children’s Book Festival – Oct 23rd

Sunday, October 17, 2010

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Another week, another event, they certainly come thick and fast in Autumn don’t they? This coming Saturday – October 23rd – it’s Crystal Palace Children’s Book Festival, with a series of workshops and events happening at Upper Norwood Library and  Bookseller Crow Bookshop. Of course, like any of these events there are lots of doubtless ood book [...]

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Want to be a part of Pickle Rye?

Sunday, October 3, 2010

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If you fancy a go at writing, drawing or doing pretty much anything creative, Sarah McIntyre (of the great, great Vern And Lettuce) has just the thing for you. It’s her new side project; Pickle Rye: Details are at Sarah’s Live Journal, but essential she wants you to do stuff about Vern And Lettuce’s world [...]

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