Divi & Frey
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I will be appearing at the Newcastle Writers Festival this week. If your in Newcastle come along and catch a session or see in the Newcastle Regional Library for book signings. I promise an original illustration in each book signed.
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For the last 2 years I have been working a picture book with the National Library of Australia. ‘Hello!’ my first full colour picture book in many years is out this month.This 68 page book is designed to be a fantastic resource for classroom teacher. It provides a brief (2 x double page spreads)…
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International Conference on Childhood and Visual Texts in/of Asia 2015 2015年 亞洲童年與視覺文本 研討會 http://ntue-conference.wix.com/visual-texts-2015 Date: November 14, 2015 (Saturday) 3:10pm- 4:20pm Venue: Zhishan Building, National Taipei University of Education I will be heading to Taiwan to deliver a talk at the on the weekend. My talk “Writing with Pictures: The Silly world of ‘Samurai vs Ninja’…
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It is always fun when drawing a book if you can thread some of your life long influences into the work. I had such an opportunity in the Samurai vs Ninja series. As a young boy growing up one of my favourite television shows was ‘Monkey’. Which was shown on ABC in the afternoon after…
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Every year I am lucky enough to spend time talking at schools around the country. No time is more frantic than around Children’s Book Week. In my sessions I invite story suggestions from the children and we visually create stories and characters to populate them with. I thought it might be fun looking at a few…
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This character appears in” Samurai vs Ninja book 3: Day if the Dreadful Undead”.This is Madam Boar. I thought it would interest some people to see the basic steps to get get this image ready for print. This image appear (as at stage 3) on page 62 of the book. I have spent a little…
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When looking for extra activities for Samurai vs Ninja, I came across the game Kamizumo. Kamizumo is a Japanese ‘paper wrestling’ game. Paper figures are place them on the Kamizumo paper ring. You tap your figures on the edge of the paper ring, the first figure knock over of out looses the round. I have been hard…
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From woodblock prints to anime. Japanese inspiration for ‘Samurai vs Ninja’, my series with Nick Falk, is everywhere. One of my favourite anime artists the master himself, Hayao Miyazaki. In this illustration (right) from the Curse of the Oni (page 71), you can see how I have borrowed from Miyazaki to give Kaba –sama a…
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