Here are more comics produced by pupils in schools as diverse as a prep school near Elstree, a primary school in the West Midlands, and a secondary school in West London. The year 3 and 4s at Aldenham (the school that gave us Karren Brady and Dale Winton, among others) came up with the two treats above. While Wednesbury, whose diaspora includes a lot of famous footballers as well as Radio 2's Alex Lester, came up with these babies...
And the secondary school in Ealing, which was formerly called after the fictional area of London invented by Eastenders, has year 7s and 8s capable of dreaming up nonsense like this...
The celebrities they chose, when asked to name a famous person who I could put into my "treads on a worm" demonstration strip, were Simon Cowell (twice, in the same school), Danny Dyer, Michael Jackson, Nicki Minaj and Keith Lemon.
And, yes, given the opportunity, I also left them with a heavily decorated flipchart full of comic strip images. Notably, whenever asked which Doctor Who they'd like me to draw, 60% ask for Matt Smith, 40% ask for David Tennant, and none asks for Peter Capaldi (or indeed earlier). Yesterday it was year 3s asking for David Tennant, who left the job when they were 2 years old. Madness.
Kev F Sutherland, as well as writing Bananaman in The Beano, runs Comic Art Masterclasses in schools, libraries and art centres - email for details, and follow him on Facebook and Twitter. View the new promo video here.
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