Tempo Lush Tales of the Tanoox Tasters: Sarah Lightman & Nicola Streeten, Naz Bee & Angela Wraight and Emmeline Pui Ling Dobson

More snippets of wonderful pictures and words too from the recent Tempo Lush Tales of the Tanoox anthology on the theme of positive change.
Contributors also suggested a positive idea in keeping with the theme of the anthology…

SARAH LIGHTMAN & NICOLA STREETEN

Previous works include:
Sarah –
Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by Jewish Women
Nicola – Billy Me and You, Becoming of Age

Positive Idea:
Sarah – Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by Jewish Women
Nicola – STOP EATING ANIMALS

Snippet from the Tempo Lush Tales of the Tanoox Anthology Foreword discussing the positive effect of Laydeez Do Comics:
“In a sense, the monthly gatherings echoed the early 1970s feminist grassroots meetings, with the purpose of raising consciousness, sharing knowledge and information. Laydeez do Comics offers a taste of the good things – a supportive community, where contacts and introductions, new opportunities, colleagues, comrades, book contracts and new partnerships, even love await. And the homemade cake we serve reminds us of the comforts of home, of joyful occasions, celebrations in our lives.”

NAZ BEE & ANGELA WRAIGHT

Previous works include:
Nas –
Paper Houses
Angela –
Circuit Breaker, Yoshitoki is Making Waves, Paper Houses

Positive Idea: Join a mentoring charity to support and guide troubled young people.
centrepoint.org.uk/get-involved/volunteer/mentoring

Art sample from their Tempo Lush tale: Give it a GoNas-and-Angela-Tanoox-SampleEMMELINE PUI LING DOBSON

Previous works include: Knights of Eve, Wu Wei

Positive Idea: “Effective Altruism” covers a range of projects aiming to help people have a bigger positive impact on the world with their time, money, and energy. A good place to start is givewell.org, which has regularly updated analytical information on which charities bring the greatest benefit
to the most underprivileged communities.

Art sample from her Tempo Lush tale: Malice/Aria
Emmeline-Tanoox-Sample

TLT-2-Cover-Double-Page-Spread-UpdateYou can get hold of the book online here, or at Gosh Comics.

Tempo Lush Tales of the Tanoox

Holy Schmoly!  Check out the line up of creators involved in the upcoming anthology from Tempo Lush…
TLT-2-Cover-Double-Page-Spread-UpdateBrand new comic book stories on the theme of positive transformation from…
Nas Bee (Paper Houses) & Angela Wraight (Circuit Breaker, Yoshitoki is Making Waves, Paper Houses)
Francesca Dare (Penny Blackfeather)
Emmeline Pui Ling Dobson (Knights of Eve, Wu Wei)
James Hickman (Score & Script)
Amber Hsu (The Sardine and Gherkin – A True Love Story – and other One Pound Poems, Tiny Pencil)
Inko (Go! Go! Metro!, Manga Cupcakes, MangaQuake, Howl!, Rosie and Jacinda: Demon Cloud)
Chie Kutsuwada (Go! Go! Metro!, The Story of Lee, Hagakure: Code of the Samurai, Rosie and Jacinda: Demon Cloud, Manga Shakespeare: As You Like It)
David O’Connell (Jampires, Monster & Chips, Tozo, The Public Servant)
Keara Stewart (On The Escalator, A Bit of Undigested Potato)
and Dr Lisa Woynarski (Performance + Ecology) & Mike Medaglia (One Year Wiser, Wu Wei, Last Days of Nobodies)

Plus a jam comic featuring the drawing talents of…
Matt Boyer (Running)
Chonto (Acclaimed Japanese Artist)
Kim Clements (The Great Cat Mystery)
Francesca Dare
Anna Dowsland (Don’t Feed the Pigeons)
Sally-Anne Hickman (Bang! Crash! Whizz!, Black Diamonds and Blue Scars)
Jessica Martin (It Girl, Elsie Harris Picture Palace)
John Miers (Score & Script, How to Train your Robot)
Chibi Shibby (Stories about Me and You) 
Paul Shinn (March of the Penguins)
Rachael Smith (The Rabbit, House Party, Flimsy the Kitten)
Tammy Taylor (Bon Appetit, 18 This Summer)

If that wasn’t enough, there’s a foreword by Laydeez Do Comics founders and award winning comic creators Sarah Lightman (Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by Jewish Women) and Nicola Streeten (Billy Me and You, Becoming of Age).

It’s an embarrassment of riches and I’m thrilled and in disbelief that they’ve all agreed to take part!

Tempo Lush Tales of the Tanoox is a follow up to last year’s Tempo Lush Tales (see reviews on the Big Comic Page and Broken Frontier).  Again I will be collaborating with some amazing artists, but this time round I’ll generally be handing over the writing duties to other creators.  It’s going to be a wonderful mix!

There is a definite theme to this collection too.  At times it’s hard to see out world moving forward and getting better so I thought it would be good to ask the creators to focus on the idea of positive transformation.  Obviously this can be interpreted in numerous ways and it looks like each writer has their own distinct spin on the idea.

It’s all coming together nicely ready for a launch at Gosh Comics in London on Friday September 18th.  Save the date – and see the Facebook event page here!

The book is available to order online here on Etsy!

That leaves just one question… What is the Tanoox?