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THE FIRST MEN ON MERCURY

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THE FIRST MEN ON MERCURY

Today, 32 500+ copies of our Edwin Morgan comic adaptation, THE FIRST MEN ON MERCURY, are being distributed to all pupils in Glasgow Secondary schools, to celebrate National Poetry Day.

For those of you who have left school long ago or don’t live in Glasgow, you can read the comic online at www.metaphrog.com/mercury. We wanted to make this site a little bit special, and so have added some behind the scenes information on the making of the comic. Educators will also find teaching notes for the classroom.

The project was originally commissioned and is published by the Association for Scottish Literary Studies.

THE FIRST MEN ON MERCURY COMIC
Association for Scottish Literary Studies
Edwin Morgan website
National Poetry Day

Graphic Novel in Progress

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We’re back at work on Louis – Night Salad, after working on our short comic adaptation of Edwin Morgan’s poem The First Men on Mercury. Two very different methods of working, but we’ll talk more about that in a later post!

Edwin Morgan Comic Adaptation

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We are honoured to announce that the Association for Scottish Literary Studies has commissioned us to produce an adaptation of the poem The First Men on Mercury by the great Edwin Morgan. It will come in the form of a four page, full colour comic, and will be published as a pamphlet given out free in Scotland in autumn 2009.

We’re thrilled to be working on this. Adapting poetry into comics is proving to be a really interesting project, and the poem being largely dialogue based, is ideally suited to this. You can read the poem itself here.

We’ll be posting more on this as the project develops.

Adam West Illustration

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Adam West Illustration

We’ve just had the pleasure of contributing an illustration of Adam West’s Batman to Dangerous Ink, the UK alternative arts magazine. The January 2009 issue features a special interview with the man himself, and also includes several illustrations from various cool artists.

Sandra’s drawing is pictured here.
Dangerous Ink Vol 2, Issue 1 is out now from all good stockists.

New Year

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New Year

It’s still January, so Best Wishes for 2009!

This is a panel extract from our graphic novel in progress, Louis – Night Salad.

We’re getting ready for more workshops in schools and libraries, starting tomorrow in Aberdeen. Details are on our events page.

Louis Work in Progress

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Louis Work in Progress

We’re making great progress on our new book, Louis – Night Salad, in full swing and turning round pages: half way through it in fact. In this book, Louis will encounter tiny people leading him through a desert, a strange doctor and his minions, and a giant caterpillar! Here are their character designs, stay tuned for more artwork soon… Previous postings on this topic can be found here.