Comic Boom - Comics in Education - Excelsior Award 2024 Special with Paul Register

Lucy chats to The Cartoon Musuem's Steve Marchant

Steve Marchant is a cartoonist and comic artist who has worked for British Airways, the BBC, ITV, the British Council and other clients big and small. He has also been running cartoon and comic strip workshops in schools and libraries across the UK since 1992, now primarily for The Cartoon Museum where he is also the learning coordinator and comic art consultant to the curator. Steve also runs adult evening courses in drawing for comics and graphic novels at City Lit, a university near Holborn.

Follow The Cartoon Museum on Social Media:
Twitter/X: @cartoonmuseumuk
Insta: @thecartoonmuseum

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In this Episode Lucy chats to official World Book Day illustrator 2024 and comics artist Vivian Truong.

We discuss her journey into comics, life as a World Book Day illustrator and her graphic novels City of Dragons: The Awakening Storm and Cooking with Monsters.

Vivian:
X: @SuperRisu
Instagram: @superrisu

BBC Teach:
www.bbc.co.uk/teach and https://bit.ly/3SlFag6
X: @BBC_Teach
Facebook: @BBCTeach

World Book Day:
Info: https://www.worldbookday.com/books-and-tokens/
#WorldBookDay #ReadYourWay
X: @worldbookdayuk
Instagram: @worldbookdaysocial
Facebook: @worldbookdayuk
TikTok: world.book.day.official


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In this special Excelsior Award Special Episode Lucy chats to Paul Register, founder of the Excelsior Award, the biggest book  award for graphic novels and manga in the UK!

What makes the awards so special is that from the expertly curated shortlists, children and young people vote for the winning book in each category themselves - a great tool for reading engagement.

In this episode Paul talks us through the 9 and over category  (White) and 11 and over category shortlists for 2024. You can access all the shortlists and further information on how to get involved in future years on their website http://www.excelsioraward.co.uk/

Follow the Excelsior Award on Twitter at @ExcelsiorAward
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Music by John_Sib from Pixabay

Lucy chats to academic Kevin Hoffin.

Kevin is a senior lecturer in Criminology, working at Birmingham City University. His main research interests are cultural theory and critical media literacy (particularly around crime and justice). He also looks at innovating pedagogy with comics, and is working on an Ed.D to argue for a distinct comics pedagogy, suitable for Higher Education.

Follow Kevin on Social Media:
Twitter/X: @KHriminology
Insta: @Kevin_Loves_Comics

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Lucy chats to founder of Graphic Novel Reading Room, Gabi Putnoki.

GNRR is a regular event where people can read graphic novels in other people’s company in a relaxed space such as a cafe, a community centre or a library. A wide selection of graphic novels are provided to chose from, mainly long-form fiction and non-fiction. The sessions can be anything from a couple of hours to a whole day and people can come and go freely.

Follow GNRR on social media:
Insta: @graphicnovelreadingroom
Web: www.graphicnovelreadingroom.com

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Lucy chats to comics creator Hannah Berry.

Hannah Berry is an award-winning comics creator, scriptwriter and campaigner. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was appointed UK Comics Laureate 2019-21. Editions of her books have been published in the USA, France, Holland, Serbia and Italy, and she has been a guest of and speaker at over 150 comics, literature and arts festivals and events around the world.

Find out more about Comics Cultural Impact Collective.

Follow Hannah on social media:
Twitter/X: @streakofpith
Insta: @streakofpith

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Lucy chats to comic writer and artist Pedro Martin.

Pedro Martín is a former Hallmark artist and the creator of Asteroid Andy. He chronicles his life growing up Mexican American online in a comic series called Mexikid Stories, and in his debut graphic memoir Mexikid.

You can find Pedro on Instagram: @mexikidstories

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Lucy chats to comic writer and artist Ryan Estrada.

Ryan Estrada is an artist, author, and adventurer. His books include Banned Book Club, Occulted, and the Student Ambassador series. He has worked for Star Trek, Popeye, Flash Gordon, and Garfield.

You can find Ryan on Twitter/X: @ryanestrada
And on Instagram: @ryanestradadotcom 

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Lucy chats to graphic novel author and academic Mary Talbot.

Dr Mary Talbot is the author of the graphic novel Dotter of her Father’s Eyes (Jonathan Cape 2012), illustrated by her husband, award winning comic artist Bryan Talbot. She is an internationally acclaimed scholar who has published widely on language, gender and power, particularly in relation to media and consumer culture. Dotter was the first work she undertook in the graphic novel format. It went on to win the 2012 Costa Biography Award in January 2013, making it the first British graphic novel to win a major literary award.

Mary has recently taken up the position of Visiting Professor of Graphic Writing in the Department of English Literature and Creative Writing, Lancaster University. Her recent academic work includes a third edition of Language and Gender (Polity 2019), a book that continues to be popular with university lecturers and students worldwide. However, she may still be known best for her critical investigation of the “synthetic sisterhood” offered by teen magazines.

This episode is part of the Comic collaboration with Lakes International Comic Arts Festival!

You can find Mary on Twitter/X: @eyedotter

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Lucy chats to Alex Harris from BBC Teach and Mike Stirling from Beano Studios.

Today - we have another duo - of a different kind. I’ll be joined by Alex Harris Executive Producer, BBC Teach, part of the BBC’s Children’s and Education department and home to thousands of free curriculum-mapped classroom videos. BBC Teach hostsLive Lessons, Class Clips as well as many big campaigns, including Moodboosters the 500 Words competition - very excitingly, just been relaunched.

Mike Stirling Creative Director at Beano Studios - aka Director of Mischief.  For fun, he enjoys co-writing the successful Beano boomics (ultimate Beano adventures, told with funny pictures) with his friend and Editorial Director, Craig Graham.  Prior to this, Mike was Editor-in-Chief of Beano, a role he described as the “most important job in journalism  

@AlexHarris4Real/@BBC_Teach and @MikeyStirling/@BeanoOfficial

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