How we found a literary agent for graphic novels
Metaphrog | Award-winning graphic novels and comics
by Metaphrog
1y ago
Can’t believe September is nearly over already! We’ve been really busy all summer juggling several projects, two on them are books for Harper Collins. We also signed with a literary agent: https://www.unitedagents.co.uk/sandra-marrs-and-john-chalmers. Which leads us to today’s topic: How we found a literary agent for graphic novels: We’ve just signed with Molly Jamieson at United Agents. Needless to say, we’re pretty excited. After all, we’d been hoping to find representation for some time and recent years have seen growing interest in the graphic novel medium. We’ve had several books publ ..read more
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Solo Exhibition at The Park Gallery, Callendar House
Metaphrog | Award-winning graphic novels and comics
by Metaphrog
2y ago
We’re honoured and delighted to have a major solo exhibition at The Park Gallery, Callendar House. The exhibition is part of Scotland’s Year of Stories 2022 and features work from our 27 years creating comics and graphic novels. Spanning our whole career it includes pages from Strange Weather Lately, our very first comic, selections from our Louis graphic novels, right up to our more recent fairy tale adaptations, as well as a dedicated section for The First Men on Mercury, our four-page adaptation of the classic Edwin Morgan poem. There are more than 55 pieces of original art, prints and ..read more
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Guests at Angoulême Ville Créative
Metaphrog | Award-winning graphic novels and comics
by Metaphrog
2y ago
  We had a fantastic time at the Rencontres Internationales de la Bande Dessinée conference in Angoulême (Oct 22). We were guests of Angoulême Ville Créative, representing Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature, and participated in a panel on comics and heritage with Giorgio Albertini, David B., Antoine Ozanam, moderated by Samuel Lévèque. The delegates and guests were treated to a wonderful dinner at the Town Hall. We’re pictured here, above, with Thomas Louis Côté (Quebec BD) Joëlle Epée (Bilili Festival), Gérard Desaphy and Xavier Bonnefont, Mayor of Angoulême. Also had a chance to vi ..read more
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Graphic Novel Cover Reveal
Metaphrog | Award-winning graphic novels and comics
by Metaphrog
2y ago
Here it is! Our new graphic novel, BLUEBEARD: A Feminist Fairy Tale, out May 2020 from Papercutz. We worked really hard for two years transforming the classic tale. Hope you’ll find it as thrilling to read as it was to make. Expect scary! WARNING: May contain cuteness. With massive thanks to Creative Scotland for their funding and kind support. The post Graphic Novel Cover Reveal appeared first on Metaphrog - Award-winning graphic novels and comics ..read more
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Shortlisted for The Herald Scottish Culture Awards 2019
Metaphrog | Award-winning graphic novels and comics
by Metaphrog
2y ago
We’re delighted to be shortlisted for The Herald Scottish Culture Awards 2019 in the Visual Artist Award category. The full shortlist for the Visual Artist Category is: Cathy Wilkes, Charlotte Prodger, Metaphrog, Charles Anderson. Full shortlist for all categories: http://newsquestscotlandevents.com/events/cultureawards/ https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/17721098.surge-of-creativity-the-short-lists-for-the-herald-scottish-culture-awards/ The winners will be announced at the ceremony on July 11th. The post Shortlisted for The Herald Scottish Culture Awards 2019 appeared first on Metaphrog ..read more
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Newspaper write-up
Metaphrog | Award-winning graphic novels and comics
by Metaphrog
2y ago
The National newspaper just ran this article at the weekend about our school residency at Holyrood Secondary. You can also read it here: https://www.thenational.scot/news/17618286.holyrood-secondary-pupils-gain-confidence-with-metaphrog-project The post Newspaper write-up appeared first on Metaphrog - Award-winning graphic novels and comics ..read more
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Graphic Novel Authors in Residence at Holyrood Secondary
Metaphrog | Award-winning graphic novels and comics
by Metaphrog
2y ago
The project! We’ve just finished our residency at Holyrood Secondary, and the project has gone way beyond our expectations! We were hired by Glasgow Life/Glasgow Libraries back in September to deliver a 20 week long residency with pupils from the Roma community in Govanhill in Glasgow. They worked really hard at creating comics and drawings with our guidance and encouragement and made huge improvements in their reading and writing. Their confidence was also greatly improved. These kids had not long arrived in Britain and some of them could barely read, write or speak English and were thrown i ..read more
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On STV News at 6
Metaphrog | Award-winning graphic novels and comics
by Metaphrog
2y ago
STV News at 6 featured us last night, about our Graphic Novel Authors in Residence project with Glasgow Life at Holyrood Secondary. Ian Lebeter of Glasgow Life also talked about the project. We’re working with pupils from Romania and Slovakia helping them tell stories in comic form. They’re sweet kids, and, now 6 weeks into the project, they are really fired up now and super productive. The post On STV News at 6 appeared first on Metaphrog - Award-winning graphic novels and comics ..read more
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Commissioned illustration for the Dick Institute
Metaphrog | Award-winning graphic novels and comics
by Metaphrog
2y ago
Finally saw the illustrations Sandra created for the Dick Institute and East Ayrshire libraries! Here they are at the lovely new refurbished and library and café. Libraries should all look as nice as this one if only they had enough funding.   The post Commissioned illustration for the Dick Institute appeared first on Metaphrog - Award-winning graphic novels and comics ..read more
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Graphic Novel Authors in Residence at Glasgow Life
Metaphrog | Award-winning graphic novels and comics
by Metaphrog
2y ago
We’ve just been appointed Graphic Novel Authors in Residence by Glasgow Life. Over the next 20 weeks, we’ll be working at Holyrood Secondary School with a group of pupils from Romania and Slovakia, helping them tell their own stories in comic form. Today was our first day. We introduced ourselves, and the project, with a presentation and two interpreters worked as we spoke – many of the pupils have just arrived in Britain and don’t speak much, if any, English. To be honest we weren’t sure how it would all work out! It’s the first time we’ve worked with interpreters in real time, but it was lo ..read more
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