Comic Boom - Comics in Education
Lucy Starbuck Braidley
An education podcast exploring the use of comics in education. Each episode I’ll be joined by a special guest from a wide range of backgrounds, from passionate education professionals to academics and industry experts. I'll be exploring a wide range of perspectives in the search for information and inspiration. Listen in if you’d like to grow your understanding of the theory behind comics, discover the most effective approaches to using comics and graphic novels in your classroom and gain inspiration from passionate comics creators.
This season of Comic Boom is sponsored by ALCS, The Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society! Find out more about their work at www.alcs.co.uk
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Comic Boom - Comics in Education - with Writer, Illustrator and Educator Sayra Begum
Comic Boom - Comics in Education
09/14/23 • 43 min
This episode is part of a collaboration with Lakes International Comics Arts Festival.
Lucy chats to writer, illustrator and educator Sayra Begum
Sayra Begum is an illustrator, writer and educator based in Nottingham. She teaches Illustration at Falmouth University and Comics at De Montfort University. Begum released her debut graphic novel, Mongrel in 2020 (supported by ACE, published by Knockabout).
Begum has contributed to the 10 Years to Save the World comic anthology, the Wild Escape campaign, and Constrain Climate Comics where she created a comic responding to the IPCC report (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). She also took part in the Comics Cultural Exchange Residency in Prague and was also recently an artist in residence at New Art Exchange, where she launched her Pilgrimage project.
Find Sayra on:
Instagram: @sayra_begum_illustration
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SayraBegumIllustratorLinks to everything discussed in this episode can be found on the podcast padlet.
You can SUPPORT the podcast by buying a comic or buying me a comic at: https://ko-fi.com/lucysbProducer and Host: @Lucy_BraidleyContact: [email protected]
Comic Boom - Comics in Education with author and professor Nick Sousanis
Comic Boom - Comics in Education
05/16/24 • 75 min
In this episode Lucy chats to professor and author Nick Sousanis.
Nick Sousanis is an Eisner-winning comics author and an associate professor of Humanities & Liberal Studies at San Francisco State University, where he started and runs a Comics Studies program. He received his doctorate in education at Teachers College, Columbia University in 2014, where he wrote and drew his dissertation entirely in comic book form. Titled Unflattening, it argues for the importance of visual thinking in teaching and learning, and was published by Harvard University Press in 2015. Unflattening received the 2016 American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE Award) in Humanities, the Lynd Ward Prize for best Graphic Novel of 2015, and was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Scholarly/Academic work.
Connect with Nick:
https://spinweaveandcut.comX: @nsousanisNick's recommendation for young readers:
K Gets in Trouble by Gary Clement
Nick's recommendation for older readers:
Toussaint Louverture: The Only Successful Slave Revolt in History by C.L.R James
Lucy's Recommendation (an upcoming guest!):
Young Hag by Isabel Greenberg
This episode is sponsored by ALCS, The Authors Licensing and Collecting Society. Check out their range of copyright education tools, resources and planning - including those highlighted on the show by following this link.
Producer and Host: @Lucy_BraidleyContact: [email protected]
Music by John_Sib from Pixabay
Comic Boom - Comics in Education with writer Swapna Reddy
Comic Boom - Comics in Education
07/10/24 • 47 min
In this episode Lucy talks to writer Swapna Reddy (who you may know as Swapna Haddow!).
Swapna Haddow is the multi award-winning children’s author of the Dave Pigeon
series, published by Faber & Faber. The Dave Pigeon series has received rave reviews since first publishing in 2016 and went on to win three regional awards in the UK and was shortlisted for the prestigious Sainsbury’s Children’s Book Award.
Swapna loves to write about boisterous animals that cause mayhem and is working with Faber & Faber, Magic Cat, Scholastic, Oxford University Press and Macmillan to make sure mean cats, grizzly bears and big-hearted little rabbits find their place on the bookshelves. Friendship and humour are always at the heart of what she loves to write.
Swapna also writes for Oxford University Press, under the pseudonym ‘Swapna
Reddy’ and comes on the podcast to talk about he new comic-prose hybrid for younger readers Reggie Rabbit and the Great Carrot Heist illustrated by Becca Moore.
Swapna's recommendations
Big Little Blue by Raymond McGrath
The Black Sand Beach Series by Richard Fairgray
Tulip and Doug by Emma WoodGranny McFlitter by Heather Haylock
Lucy's Recommendation
Narwhal and Jelly Series by Ben Clanton
This episode of Comic Boom is sponsored by ALCS, The Authors Licensing and Collecting Society.
The ALCS Carnegie Awards resources highlighted in the episode can be found here.
Connect with Swapna via her website.
Follow the podcast:
Insta: @comic_boom_podcastTwitter/X: @Lucy_BraidleyContact: [email protected]
Music by John_Sib from Pixabay
Comic Boom - Comics in Education with Chie Kutsuwada and Julian Sedgwick
Comic Boom - Comics in Education
06/26/24 • 51 min
In today’s episode Lucy is joined by a wonderful creative duo - Chie Kutsuwada and Julian Sedgwick.
Chie is UK based Japanese manga creator and illustrator. Chie graduated from Royal College of Art, London, and since then has carved out a successful career in illustration. She creates her own illustrated stories and comics strips, as well as working on titles like the manga version of Shakespeare’s As You Like It (SelfMadeHero, London). Chie also regularly runs manga workshops for schools and art institutions and more recently is known for her collaborations with author Julian Sedgwick.
Julian Sedgwick is the author of numerous books for young people, with a lifelong interest inthe cultures of East Asia. On the way to realising his childhood ambition to be a writer, Julian read Chinese Studies and Philosophy at Cambridge. The the first book in his Mysterium trilogy was published in 2013 and won the Rotherham Children’s Book Award. Since then, his books have been shortlisted for numerous awards,with both Voyages in the Underworld of Orpheus Black (co-written with his brother, Marcus).
The pair began collaborating combined manga and prose books, starting with on the Carnegie shortlisted Tsunami Girl (2021 Guppy Books, UK) and their latest creation 100 Tales from the Tokyo Ghost Café (2023 Guppy Books, UK).
This episode of Comic Boom is sponsored by ALCS, The Authors Licensing and Collecting Society.
The ALCS Carnegie Awards resources highlighted in the episode can be found here.
Julian's recommendation:
Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir by Pedro Martin
(Pedro's episode on Comic Boom can be found here!)
Chie's recommendation:
Hicotea - A Nightlights Story by Lorena Alvarez
Lucy's recommendation:
www.comicsdevices.com
Follow Chie:https://www.facebook.com/chitangardenX: @chitanchitanInstagram: @mcmc69Follow Julian:X/Twitter: @julianaureliusInsta:@julian_sedgwick
Follow the podcast:
Insta: @comic_boom_podcastTwitter/X: @Lucy_BraidleyContact: [email protected]
Music by John_Sib from Pixabay
Comic Boom - Comic in Education - with 'Star Cat' and 'I Hate Pixies' creator James Turner
Comic Boom - Comics in Education
05/29/24 • 45 min
In this episode Lucy chats with writer and comics creator, James Turner.
James is a cartoonist and writer, creator, with illustrator Yasmin Sheikh. As well as Star Cat, his comic strip Clatters and Bump regularly appears in weekly comic The Phoenix.
James joins me to talk about his new graphic novel Toby and the Pixies: Worst King Ever! illustrated by Andreas Schuster is out on 6 June 2024.
James's recommendation for this episode:
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin
Lucy's recommendation for this episode:
Fantasy Sports by Sam Bosma
Follow James:
Insta at @eruditebaboonTwitter/X: @eruditebaboonFollow the podcast:
Insta: @comic_boom_podcastTwitter/X: @Lucy_BraidleyContact: [email protected]
This episode is sponsored by ALCS, The Authors Licensing and Collecting Society. Check out their range of copyright education tools, resources and planning - including those highlighted on the show by following this link.
Music by John_Sib from Pixabay
Comic Boom - Episode 10 - with Commissioning Editor at David Fickling Books, Anthony Hinton
Comic Boom - Comics in Education
03/08/23 • 45 min
Lucy chats to Commisioning Editor at David Fickling Books, Anthony Hinton.
We discuss the recent boom in popularity of british graphic novels - including the success of Jamie Smart and Neill Cameron.
Anthony is part of the team at The Phoenix Comic, where he edits the comic books produced through the DFB/Phoenix partnership, including Jamie Smart's number 1 bestselling Bunny vs Monkey, Neill Cameron's Mega Robo Bros, Laura Ellen Anderson's Evil Emperor Penguin, Adam and Lisa Murphy's Corpse Talk and many more. He has edited many books of children's and YA prose fiction - and non-fiction - working with writers including the Carnegie-shortlisted Candy Gourlay, the YA-prize shortlisted Melinda Salisbury, and the legendary Anne Fine, and was himself shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award for editing the late Tony Mitton's Potter's Boy. He is also an occasional writer for The Phoenix comic, including on their choose-your-own-adventure series Fates and Fortunes.
Links to everything discussed, including Anthony's recommendations and the comic to accompany this episode can be found on the podcast padlet.
Follow David Fickling Books and The Phoenix on Twitter at @dfb_storyhouse @phoenixcomicukProducer and Host: @Lucy_BraidleyContact: [email protected]
Comic Boom - Comics in Education with graphic novel author Mary Talbot
Comic Boom - Comics in Education
10/26/23 • 42 min
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
Links to everything discussed in this episode can be found on the podcast padlet.
You can SUPPORT the podcast by buying a comic or buying me a comic at: https://ko-fi.com/lucysb
Producer and Host: @Lucy_Braidley
Contact: [email protected]
Comic Boom - Comics in Education - with the Cartoon Museum's Steve Marchant
Comic Boom - Comics in Education
03/08/24 • 40 min
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: @cartoonmuseumukInsta: @thecartoonmuseum
Links to everything discussed in this episode can be found on the podcast padlet.
You can SUPPORT the podcast by buying a comic or buying me a comic at: https://ko-fi.com/lucysb
Producer and Host: @Lucy_Braidley
Contact: [email protected]
Music by John_Sib from Pixabay
Comic Boom - Comics in Education - with Agent Moose creators, writer Mo O'Hara and illustrator Jess Bradley
Comic Boom - Comics in Education
09/28/23 • 45 min
In this episode Lucy chats with creators of the Agent Moose series - Mo O'Hara and Jess Bradley.
Jess is an illustrator, comic artist and writer living in Torquay, Devon with her husband and son.
Jess draws and writes for The Phoenix Comic and has appeared in over 300 issues. She also writes weekly for The Beano ... In 2021 she won a Blue Peter Book Award for her work on A Day In The Life of a Poo, a Gnu and You and displays her badge proudly on her pencil case.
Mo O’Hara is the New York Times bestselling author of the My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish series. She writes picture books like More People to Love Me and Romeosaurus and Juliet Rex and also writes the graphic novel series Agent Moose with Jess Bradley as illustrator. Mo is currently writing a new series, Honey ’s Hive, for Anderson Press. She lives in London with her husband, two cats and two nearly grown-up children. She loves travelling around the country (and around the world) telling stories, leading writing workshops, and talking about books with kids.
Find Mo on:
Twitter:@Mo_OHara Instagram: @Mo_ohara_
Find Jess on:
Twitter: @VenkmanProject Instagram: @Venkman_project
Links to everything discussed in this episode can be found on the podcast padlet.
You can SUPPORT the podcastby buying a comic or buying me a comic at: https://ko-fi.com/lucysbProducer and Host: @Lucy_BraidleyContact: [email protected]
Comic Boom - Comics in Education with Mollie Ray
Comic Boom - Comics in Education
08/21/24 • 48 min
In this episode Lucy chats to illustrator and graphic novelist Mollie Ray.
Mollie is a Lancaster-based comic artist and illustrator, her debut graphic novel Giant was published in 2024 with Faber and Faber. In 2019, Mollie graduated from The University of Edinburgh with a First-Class Honours degree in Illustration. Her work has been featured by Creative Boom, The AOI and Broken Frontier's 'Six To Watch In 2021'.She has also done work for the BBC in support of David Attenborough's Wild Isles series and self-published multiple short-form comics.This episode of Comic Boom is sponsored by ALCS, The Authors Licensing and Collecting Society.
Find our more about the Lakes International Comics Art Festival here.
Mollie's recommendations:
Making Comics by Scott McCloud
Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud
Lucy's book post included:
A selection from Puffin Graphics. Read about the imprint here.
Titles mentioned:
- Max Meow by John Gallagher
- Blood City Rollers by V P Anderson and Tatiana Hill
- Sweet Valley Twins by Francine Pascal, Nicole Andelfinger and Claudia Aguirre
Connect with Mollie:
Instagram/Threads: @mollierayillustration
Twitter: @themollierayway
mollieray.co.uk
Follow the podcast:
Insta: @comic_boom_podcast
Twitter/X: @Lucy_Braidley
Contact: [email protected]
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How many episodes does Comic Boom - Comics in Education have?
Comic Boom - Comics in Education currently has 46 episodes available.
What topics does Comic Boom - Comics in Education cover?
The podcast is about Pedagogy, Visual Arts, Comics, Reading, Library, Podcasts, Education and Arts.
What is the most popular episode on Comic Boom - Comics in Education?
The episode title 'Comic Boom - Comics in Education - with cartoonist Marc Jackson' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Comic Boom - Comics in Education?
The average episode length on Comic Boom - Comics in Education is 46 minutes.
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Episodes of Comic Boom - Comics in Education are typically released every 7 days, 1 hour.
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The first episode of Comic Boom - Comics in Education was released on Jan 1, 2023.
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