Tag Archive | "Sarah McIntyre"

McIntyre, Northfield and Smart – as featured in tbk magazine.

Saturday, September 25, 2010

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Sarah McIntyre and Gary Northfield, studio partners at The Fleece Station, let us know on their respective blogs that they’re going to be featuring heavily in the 30th edition of TBK magazine (a magazine covering the world of children’s books). And here’s a couple of their panels…. Sarah also mentions that Jamie Smart is in [...]

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Colliding Words and Pictures: An interview with Sarah McIntyre

Friday, September 24, 2010

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Sarah McIntyre is, as regular readers will know, a huge favourite of your FP blog crew (not least with our cub reporter, young Molly) for her comics and her illustration work, as well as for her sparkly tiaras at comics and book events. This autumn sees the second wave of graphic novel collections from the [...]

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Sarah McIntyre talks to Philip Reeve

Thursday, September 9, 2010

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Sarah McIntyre, one of our faves around here, talks to the very fine author Philip Reeve; it’s a lovely interview, bit different from some I have read, where Sarah talks about various things in addition to her own lovely illustrations for books and comics, from growing up with an engineering father to discussing some of [...]

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More (and Moore) from the Edinburgh Book Festival

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

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As well as the Martin Rowson and Garry Trudeau events with Steve Bell at the Edinburgh International Book Festival last week (see here) there were several other comics folk present at the world’s biggest literary fest, including Garen Ewing, Sarah McIntyre and oh yeah, there was some bloke called Alan Moore… It was a sold [...]

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Vern & Lettuce coming soon …. and maybe online as well?

Saturday, August 21, 2010

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The Bruton family love for Vern & Lettuce is something that’s well known here on the blog, and Molly’s very much looking forward to getting her hands on the new DFC collection of Sarah McIntyre’s brillaint strips about a sheep (Vern) and a rabbit (Lettuce) in early October. It’s also very probably going to be [...]

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Books! Comics! Writers! Artists! Readers! The Edinburgh Book Fest begins!

Saturday, August 14, 2010

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Edinburgh is already heaving with the Fringe well underway – August is Festival time and a city already awash with global tourists are joined by legions of Festival goers, almost doubling the population. Today another major festival landmark begins as our friends in the 2010 Edinburgh International Book Festival open proceedings (excellent YA fantasy author [...]

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Caption report

Thursday, August 5, 2010

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Matt Badham, wandering writer and sometime conributor to the FP blog, has posted up a report on the recent Caption comics bash in Oxford, which sounds like it was (as usual) a great weekend: “I somehow managed to miss the DFC Panel, which was a shame. However, I did hear Paul Cornell‘s talk and got [...]

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Edinburgh International Book Festival: Moore, Trudeau, Bell, Banks and more

Friday, July 30, 2010

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August is all but upon us and in the city of Edinburgh that means the world’s largest arts festival is about to take off. The population of the city almost double between tourists, festival goers and performers on every corner and during two weeks of that month long circus of every conceivable kind of artform [...]

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Sarah McIntyre for Cheltenham Little Lit Fest

Sunday, June 13, 2010

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Over on her blog Sarah McIntyre has recently announced that she’s been chosen to be the official illustrator of the Book It family and young readers mini-festival at this year’s Cheltenham Literary Festival. To be honest I can’t think of anyone more deserving. The pic above is her first draft for a cover design. I’m [...]

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Sarah McIntyre: Dear Diary….

Friday, May 21, 2010

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Dear Diary: 1988 – 1990 Sarah McIntyre Self Published If you’ve read the FPI blog for a while now you know we’re fans of Sarah McIntyre. I’ve gone so far as to say she’s one of the most naturally gifted cartoonists I’ve seen in the last few years. Her comics are wonderful things, Vern And [...]

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Comics cake!

Monday, April 19, 2010

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I can’t resist pinching this photo from Sarah McIntyre’s blog about the party at the now infamous Fleece Station studio, which is set to become even more infamous with Lauren O’Farrell, Ellen Lindner and Gertrude Woolsworthy moving in. They were celebrating their new studio-mates and also the birthday of Darryl Cunningham, which explains the very [...]

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Hi-Ex-capades – Medway, Shelton, McItyre and Northfield jam in the Highlands….

Sunday, April 4, 2010

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A comics Jam drawn at Hi-Ex from Sarah McIntyre, Jim Medway, Dave Shelton and Gary Northfield. You’re welcome.

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UniComics Festival

Monday, March 15, 2010

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The UniComics Festival will be taking place from the 22nd to 25th of April at the University of Hertfordshire, with events aimed at newcomers and longtime fans, both young and old. Among the guests on the roster there’s some top talent to be seen, including Dave Gibbons, Ian Edginton, Sarah McIntyre, Gary Erskine, Kevin O’Neill, [...]

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“Robot Girl was a right pain in the backside……”

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

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Sarah McIntyre posted up the image above on her blog (you do follow it, right?); a collaboration between Sarah, Emma Vieceli and John Aggs featuring their DFC characters; John’s Robot Girl, Emma’s Violet and Sarah’s Vern and Lettuce. Like Sarah says: “We didn’t invite the bunnies, they just showed up and Robot Girl was a [...]

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DFC Library previews up….

Sunday, February 14, 2010

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The first batch of DFC reprints is nearly upon us (first three books arrive in March) – Dave Shelton’s Good Dog, Bad Dog, Ben Haggerty and Adam Brockbank’s Mezolith and Kate Brown’s Spider Moon. And to celebrate there’s a new preview website up to view a few of the pages of each of those books [...]

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