More snippets of fantastic drawings from the recent Tempo Lush Tales of the Tanoox anthology on the theme of positive change.
The contributors also suggested a positive idea in keeping with the theme of the anthology… LISA WOYNARSKI&MIKE MEDAGLIA
Previous works include:
Lisa – Performance + Ecology Mike – One Year Wiser, Wu Wei, Last Days of Nobodies
Positive Idea: “Our positive idea is of a collective awareness across the planet of our ecological connectedness where people face the effects of climate change head-on and have the courage to make a change in a big and meaningful way.”
Art sample from their Tempo Lush tale: The Death of the Familiar (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Tanoox)SALLY-ANNE HICKMAN
Previous works include:Bang! Crash! Whizz!, Black Diamonds and Blue Scars
Positive Idea: “The Margins Project based in the Union Chapel provides a range of vital support services to people facing homelessness, they offer a kitchen training programme to develop skills that can lead to employment. They also provide a winter night shelter followed by a hearty breakfast in the winter months. www.unionchapel.org.uk”
Art sample from the Tempo Lush tale: Bugleberry TreeTAMMY TAYLOR
Previous works include:Bon Appetit, 18 This Summer
Positive Idea: “I think a good charity to support would be Springboard for Children as they provide one-to-one support to improve reading and writing for children who are in danger of being left behind in the education system www.springboard.org.uk”
Art sample from the Tempo Lush tale: Bugleberry Tree You can get hold of the book online here, or at Gosh Comics or if you’re heading to any comic festivals this year you can find me and Tempo Lush Tales of the Tanoox at… The Lakes International Comic Art Festival (Kendal, Saturday 17 – Sunday 18 October 2015) MCM London Comic Con (Excel London, Friday 23 – Sunday 25 October 2015) Thought Bubble (Leeds, Saturday 14 – Sunday 15 November 2015)
More snippets of fabulous pictures from the recent Tempo Lush Tales of the Tanoox anthology on the theme of positive change.
Each contributor also suggested a positive idea in keeping with the theme of the anthology…
Previous works include:On The Escalator, A Bit of Undigested Potato
Positive Idea: “I was born at the Royal Free.
The Royal Free Hospital was founded in 1828. It relied entirely on charitable donations not just for day to day running but to develop the pioneering research for which it has become famous. Amongst many innovations, The Royal Free was the first hospital to treat patients for free, the only hospital in London to treat cholera victims, the first medical school for women in England and the first hospital to admit female students. No one would choose to spend a lot of their life in hospital, but for some people that is reality, whether or not it is temporary or long term. The staff in a hospital can make all the difference to your experience, from consultants to massage therapists, nurses to volunteers. All hospitals have their problems, but some of the warmest and most compassionate people I have ever met have been at the Royal Free.
I am proud to be a Royal Free baby. Let’s love and protect our NHS. www.royalfreecharity.org”
Art sample from her Tempo Lush tale: 1948 AMBER HSU
Previous works include:The Sardine and Gherkin – A True Love Story – and other One Pound Poems, Tiny Pencil
Positive Idea: “Sometimes a single act of kindness can save someone for an entire life.”
Art sample from her Tempo Lush tale: There Was Once…PAUL SHINN
Previous works include:March of the Penguins, Look What I Drawed
Positive Idea: “The British Red Cross responds to conflicts and natural disasters around the world, providing humanitarian aid to those in need. www.redcross.org.uk”
Art sample from the Tempo Lush tale: Bugleberry Tree You can get hold of the book online here, or at Gosh Comics or if you’re heading to any comic festivals this year you can find me and Tempo Lush Tales of the Tanoox at… The Lakes International Comic Art Festival (Kendal, Saturday 17 – Sunday 18 October 2015) MCM London Comic Con (Excel London, Friday 23 – Sunday 25 October 2015) Thought Bubble (Leeds, Saturday 14 – Sunday 15 November 2015)
More snippets of wonderful pictures from the recent Tempo Lush Tales of the Tanoox.
Each contributor also suggested a positive idea in keeping with the theme of the anthology…
Art sample from his Tempo Lush tale: Flat E CHONTO
Previous works include: Illustrations for newspapers, novels, advertising, books, magazines, video, TV, theatre, performance art and more.
Positive Idea: “Rich imagination and creativity don’t necessarily come from constantly staring at mobiles, tablets and laptops. How about letting your imagination go wild by connecting with people and nature directly?”
Art sample from the Tempo Lush tale: Bugleberry Tree CHIBI SHIBBY
Previous works include:Stories about Me and You
Positive Idea: “Do more of what makes you happy!”
Art sample from the Tempo Lush tale: Bugleberry Tree You can get hold of the book online here, or at Gosh Comics or if you’re heading to any comic festivals this year you can find me and Tempo Lush Tales of the Tanoox at… The Lakes International Comic Art Festival (Kendal, Saturday 17 – Sunday 18 October 2015) MCM London Comic Con (Excel London, Friday 23 – Sunday 25 October 2015) Thought Bubble (Leeds, Saturday 14 – Sunday 15 November 2015)
Here we go with the first of a series of samples of amazing artwork from the recent Tempo Lush Tales of the Tanoox.
I also asked each contributor for a positive idea in keeping with the theme of the anthology…
Previous works include:Go! Go! Metro!, Manga Cupcakes, MangaQuake, Howl!, Rosie and Jacinda: Demon Cloud
Positive Idea: “Ichinichi Ichizen is a Japanese saying means One good thing a day, to encourage you to do anything good (as small as making a cup of tea for someone). No pressure to do anything big or a lot, just one in a day! How about going to One Click Donations? By clicking company adverts there once a day, the company will donate to various charities instead of you! It’s a very simple and easy way of making a positive move! www.thenonprofits.com”
Art sample from her Tempo Lush tale: Tanuko JOHN MIERS
Previous works include:Score & Script, How to Train your Robot
Positive Ideas: “(1) “Mimesis as Make-Believe”, which is American philosopher Kendall Walton’s theory of how representational art works. Basically he says that works of art “function as props in games of make-believe”. So enjoying a fiction is a more developed version of what a kid does when it imagines that a stick is a horse, or its bed is the sea. I think it’s a lovely idea. (2) Whatever happens with the Labour leadership election, the whole “Jez We Can” thing seems to provide good evidence that if a coherent anti-austerity position gets a decent platform, it can enthuse a wide range of people, including plenty who don’t normally vote. That feels like a much-needed sliver of hope in contemporary politics.”
Art sample from the Tempo Lush tale: Bugleberry Tree RACHAEL SMITH
Previous works include:The Rabbit, House Party, Flimsy the Kitten, Dr Who
Positive Idea: “I’m a big supporter of the Alzheimer’s Society. My Grandad sadly passed away a few years ago after suffering from Alzheimer’s for many years. He was the nicest man in the world and I’d love for more support to go to this charity so they can care for people with this illness and make sure they still get the most out of life.” www.alzheimers.org.uk
Art sample from the Tempo Lush tale: Bugleberry Tree You can get hold of the book online here, or at Gosh Comics or if you’re heading to any comic festivals this year you can find me and Tempo Lush Tales of the Tanoox at… The Lakes International Comic Art Festival (Kendal, Saturday 17 – Sunday 18 October 2015) MCM London Comic Con (Excel London, Friday 23 – Sunday 25 October 2015) Thought Bubble (Leeds, Saturday 14 – Sunday 15 November 2015)
On Friday September 18th 2015, a crowd of lovely people shuffled into the amazing shop known as Gosh Comics to help celebrate the launch of four new comics.
There on the left is contributor to two of the night’s comics, Mike Medaglia, helping lay out the goods…So nice to see many friendly faces join us for the evening, some regulars and some new to the world of comic shops… Below (left to right): Friends of Gosh Comics, Paul Shinn (Tempo Lush Tales of the Tanooxcontributor), Chantel Beaven and Lauren Louise Murphy. On the left below, you can see my amazing co-host, Penny Blackfeathercreator and Alidade contributor Francesca Dare.Below: On the far left is comic creator and director Andy Poyiadgiwho kindly filmed much of the evening’s activities for us, on his own phone.
Taking a swig of beer is Alidade collaborator Tim Hassan, next to Paul Shinn and with the amazing pink hair is Paul’s fellow Tempo Lush Tales of the Tanoox contributor Anna Dowsland.It was great seeing comic related images projected nice and big in the shop……such as this wonderful panel by Francesa Dare, taken from her Tempo Lush Tales of the Tanooxstory Undertow… And there’s Francesca again signing a comic for a fan!It was great having the shop full, creating a brilliant buzz…It was a busy night but I was glad to catch moments to chat to star creators such as David O’Connellwho contributes the first story in Tempo Lush Tales of the Tanoox, Flat E…And there’s two good friends (and Tempo Lush Tales of the Tanooxcontributors) who I barely got to chat to at all, even after they traveled to the event from Brighton, the amazing Inko and Chie Kutsuwada…I have a big grin on my face here but I think it masks my nervousness as I’m about to perform some music in a few minutes…Speaking of music, here’s three great performers, newly-weds Paul and Sally-Anne Hickman chatting to my old band mate Miss E (Enoma Igiehon).And two more contributors who created the Tempo Lush Tale Give It a Go, Angela Wraight (back, in glasses) and Nas Bee (front left) who surprised me with some incredible homemade cake to feed the masses…Aw! Such a nice bunch of folk including (left to right) comics academic and creator John Miers (who did a fantastic page of Bugleberry Tree in the anthology), Graphic Novelist S J Harris and Broken Frontier top guy Andy Oliver.
(Photo by fellow Tempo Lush Tales of the Tanoox contributor Keara Stewart) That’s James Hickman holding a beer! James created the four page epic for Tempo Lush Tales of the Tanoox, Colossi, next to Lisa Woynarski.
Lisa used her theatre direction skills to great effect, timing the image changes during the evening’s performances on top of writing her first comic story for the Tanoox anthology: The Death of the Familiar. Miss E, Sally-Anne Hickman and myself downstairs in the shop after a bit of tuning up… And upstairs – Five minutes to curtain!Right! Things are really about to kick off as Steve Walsh, writer, podcaster and Gosh Comics superstar introduces his niece Aimee to get things rolling with a penny-whistle performance…Next up I start plucking away on Imani (my guitar) as we prepare for a special satellite link-up with the undersea town of Stoneydip……and Lucy the Octopus!
Lucy welcomed to the stage my two musical collaborators for the night, Sally-Anne Hickman……and Miss E, who as Lucy pointed out, bears a striking resemblance to someone who appears in Lucy strips like this one!We three performed a little guitar instrumental I wrote a few years back, which still doesn’t have a name…(Photo by Karen Rubins)
Next it was the turn of the Francesca Dare Theatrical Players to perform a scene from the new Penny Blackfeather comic with style and panache…Left to right: Francesca Dare, Paul Shinn, Steve Walsh and Lauren Louise Murphy.Left to right: Saul Taylor and Ramsey Hassan.
The crowd lapped up the culture, including Andy Oliver and contributor to two Tempo Lush Tales collections Matt Boyer…Now for the serious business of creator shout outs…Musicians strum while Francesca Dare leads the role call of talent involved in the evening’s new comic offerings……such as Graphic Novelist, singer and actress Jessica Martin who produced an amazing page for the Bugleberry Tree section of Tempo Lush Tales of the Tanoox……and Saul Taylor who won last year’s Complete the Lucy the Octopus strip contest!
Now it was time to reveal the secret project! Francesca called to the stage our collaborators on the book……and the crowd saw the 5 artists who made Alidade! (Left to right) Me, Mike Medaglia, Tim Hassan, Karen Rubins and Francesca herself!Mike explained how we created the 20 page comic from scratch over one weekend in August, how fun it was, how stressful it got and what a great experience it turned out to be…
Finally I said a few thank-yous before launching into the song Bugleberry Treealongside Miss E, Sally-Anne and the whole crowd in the shop.
It was great to display artwork interpreting the song for the Tempo Lush Tales of the Tanoox collection, such as the panels seen in the background below drawn by Rachael Smith.
(Photo by Keara Stewart)
It was a very special night for me – Thanks to all the friends and collaborators who turned up and made it rock monkeys!
All of my new books are available to buy in Gosh Comics and theTempo Lush Etsy shop!
Phew!
SALLY-ANNE HICKMAN
TAMMY TAYLOR
On the left below, you can see my amazing co-host, Penny Blackfeather creator and Alidade contributor Francesca Dare.
And there’s two good friends (and Tempo Lush Tales of the Tanoox contributors) who I barely got to chat to at all, even after they traveled to the event from Brighton, the amazing 
