We Created Moose Kid Comics For Three Main Reasons:
To entertain comic readers and win new audiences.
To show how fantastic a children’s comic can be when artists create it themselves.
To open up the discussion about how we can make children’s comics great again.Here in the U.K, mainstream children’s comics have been dying out, especially ones featuring original content. The Phoenix and The Beano are the only commercially available weekly titles still producing entirely original characters, but they are competing against big-name licensed titles based on TV shows or merchandising.
We want to help change things. We want to be creating the next generation of loveable characters for the world to embrace, all created by artists who retain their copyrights and put all their heart into their creations.
We want to remind both children and adults alike how fantastical and imaginative comics can be, and to help bring children’s comics back into the public consciousness.
Thirty-six page first issue available for download right here. Go, support this.
Labour’s press team has accidentally offered everyone their own owl in what could be their most popular announcement yet.
The party’s official account was hacked, tweeting “Everybody should have his own owl”. The tweet was quickly removed, and was replaced with a response that was slightly … laboured:
AN OWL IN EVERY HOME.
For the life of me, I cannot believe you have the gall to ask us for free publicity. I guess corporations like yours simply have no shame and certainly no sense of community beyond taking the dollar bills from them.
“Bowie Has Saved More Lives Than Batman”: An Interview with the Creators of The Wicked + the Divine
“Bowie Has Saved More Lives Than Batman”: An Interview with the Creators of The Wicked + the Divine
I had a chat with Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie in a Peruvian cocktail bar in Soho about their comic. The vibe was, consciously, late 80s NME interview – the kind where Ian Brown is full of troll-the-world confidence*, not – sadly! – the kind where an IPC freelancer takes Neds Atomic Dustbin go-karting in the rain. The full version of this will be up on FT soon, when I have actually finished transcribing it.
*and at 16, that’s all I assumed it was.
Must read because (a) The Wicked + The Divine is amazing, but also because (b) Tom Ewing is amazing as well.
