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Stories from a strange time
Paul Bristow • December 14, 2020
Comics in Lockdown
Before the year ends, we are sharing two publications created as part of our National Lottery Community Fund project, Outside The Box,
working with marginalised young people in Inverclyde to create stories which reflect their lived experience. And obviously, in 2020, there was one lived experience it was hard to avoid. One that we all shared in different ways. So throughout spring and summer of 2020, we continued to work with as many young people in Inverclyde as we could, to create comics which explored their experiences of lockdown.
Sometimes that would mean working via zoom, other times, with stories and text collected via other organisations or at school sessions set up for keyworker families. A whole archive of material has been collated across Inverclyde during lockdown and this is our contribution to that collection - some of those stories, retold and reimagined as comics.
What we enjoy most about them is how honest they are. And how beautifully colourful.
We would like to thank Inverclyde Libraries, Aileen Wilson - Childrens Rights Officer at Inverclyde Council, Erin Power - Children and Young Peoples Development Officer at Your Voice and Grace McKelvie at Great Place Scheme Inverclyde Council for sharing some of the material collected for their Lockdown Life Project from Saint Ninian’s Primary School and Saint John’s Primary School.
You can download the comic here
or read online on our ISSUU page.
Our second comic, Ghost Town, is a collection of ghost stories created during the Galoshans Festival and it will be shared later this week.
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Earlier this month, we were asked to produce some artwork for the Afrowegian Project , imagining an Afro-Futurist version of the story of real world cycling superhero, Marshall 'Major' Taylor. The comic display panels form part of an exhibition by the riverside in Glasgow throughout October. You can read more about the work of the project and how to get involved. We're looking forward to doing some more collaborative work with Afrowegian's Jim Muotone, down in Inverclyde over the next few months.
Earlier this year, our director Paul Bristow spoke to Tall Tale films as part of CVS Inverclyde's Digital Open Studios project. Check out the short video below to hear Paul chat about storytelling, communities and his creative process for his own writing and his work with Magic Torch Comics CIC. You can also see his fairly messy home office under the stairs...
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