Jack and Daniels Comic Book Workshops comes to an end
For the last two years, I’ve been running comic book workshops in libraries, schools and other establishments around the North East. I’ve been facilitating these workshops with Jack Fallows, and we’ve called these things Jack and Daniel’s Comic Book Workshops. It does what it says on the tin.
Jack is a very good friend of mine and an incredibly talented and experimental comic book creator. All of his work is worth reading, but my personal favourite is his 24hr Comic, John Henry Split My Heart. Go and buy it.
Although Jack writes most of his comics himself, he played the part of Artist in our little team while I played the part of Writer like a disciple of Stanislavsky.
Starting on Oct 1st 2009, our workshops were designed to encourage young people to be excited about literacy, as well as creativity and comics in general.
During that time we worked with
- BBC Blast
- Seven Stories
- Bede’s World
- The Pavilion, Peterlee
- South Tyneside Council
- Newcastle Libraries
- Middlesborough Libraries
- Houghton Library
- Holystone Primary School
- Wheatley Hill Primary School
- Shanklea Primary School
- Whitley Bay High School
- Houghton Kepier Sports College
- Prudhoe High School
- Gosforth Academy
- Churchill Community College
And probably a few others that I’ve forgotten about.
Well, Jack was so taken by the session we ran at Shanklea Primary School that he has decided to make a career as a teacher. Now that Jack is studying for his PGCE, he can no longer devote any time to the workshops.
On Sunday 20th November, the last Jack and Daniel’s Comic Book Workshop will take place at the Thought Bubble comic convention in Leeds. Buy tickets for Thought Bubble here (it’s well worth it) and see the workshop listing here.
