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Comic Boom - Comics in Education

Lucy Starbuck Braidley

An education podcast exploring the use of comics in education. Each episode I’ll be joined by a special guest from a wide range of backgrounds, from passionate education professionals to academics and industry experts. I"ll be exploring a wide range of perspectives in the search for information and inspiration. Listen in if you’d like to grow your understanding of the theory behind comics, discover the most effective approaches to using comics and graphic novels in your classroom and gain

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59:18

Comic Boom - Comics in Education with the team from...

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2025/06/14

Send us a text Following on from the last episode, in which Lucy chatted to writer Hannah Tunnicliffe and illustrator Erica Harrison, creators of Detective Stanley and the Mystery at the Museum. This episode - part two of the double bill - follows the journey of creation of a graphic novel from commission right through to sales and marketing. Lucy is joined by: Fay Evans – Editorial Director Kate Manning – Head of Sales Hannah Kettle – Head of Marketing & Publicity Helena Maratheftis – Di...

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57:27

Comic Boom - Comics in Education with Hannah...

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2025/05/23

Send us a text In this episode Lucy chats to writer Hannah Tunnicliffe and illustrator Erica Harrison, creators of Detective Stanley and the Mystery at the Museum. This episode is the first in a two part special focusing on the Flying Eye title Detective Stanley Mystery at the Museum. In this, the first episode we’ll meet the creators of the book themselves and in the second the marketing, sales and editorial team at Flying Eye to talk about the other side of bringing a book into the world. T...

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Comic Boom - Comics in Education with Jamie Smart

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2025/05/15

Send us a text In this episode Lucy chats to comic book artist, writer and illustrator Jamie Smart It feels he needs no introduction! I celebrate 50* episodes of comic boom, with the one, the only, Jamie Smart. Jamie’s characters and the colourful worlds they inhabit have graced the pages of many a national institutions; The Dandy, The Beano, The DFC and The Phoenix. His long running weekly strip 'Bunny Vs Monkey' is still going strong in The Phoenix and is collated into the hugely popular, b...

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48:42

Comic Boom - Comics in Education with Yiting Lee and...

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2025/05/08

Send us a text In this episode Lucy chats to illustrator Yiting Lee and writer Swapna Haddow about their latest titles with publishers Magic Cat, Little Dinosaurs, Big Questions. Little Dinosaurs, Big Questions, features ten fictional comic strip stories with supportive tools to help understand the difficult things about life. Designed for grown-ups to read with children. Yiting is a children’s book author and illustrator from Taiwan, based in England. Yiting graduated from ...

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56:42

Comic Boom - Comics in Education with creator Edward...

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2025/05/01

Send us a text In this episode Lucy chats to Edinburgh based comic book artist, writer and illustrator Edward Ross. With an early and obsessive interest in cinema and comics, it wasn’t until after studying Film at university that he managed to combine these two interests in the form of his self-published Filmish comics. Well received by both movie fans and academics, Edward released four issues of the series between 2009 and 2013, before beginning work on Filmish – A Graphic Journey Through F...

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Comic Boom - Comics in Education with Comics Laureate...

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2024/09/18

Send us a textIn this episode Lucy chats to UK Comics Laureate Bobby Joseph.Bobby Joseph is an acclaimed South London comic creator whose work has oftenchallenged and inspired its readers. His early work includes the creation of cultcomic classic Skank magazine, where his best-known strip, “Scotland Yardie”, firstfeatured, and was later published by Knockabout Press. He has written for The Guardian newspaper, Dazed and Confused, and Vice.com.His comic work was a prominent feature at the Anar...

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45:52

Comic Boom - Comics in Education with creator Isabel...

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2024/09/08

Send us a textIn this episode Lucy chats to illustrator and graphic novelist Isabel Greenberg.Isabel is a London based illustrator and writer and the author of three acclaimed graphic novels; The Encylopedia Of Early Earth (2015, Jonathan Cape, Little Brown), The One Hundred Nights Of Hero (2017, Jonathan Cape, Little Brown.) and her latest Glass Town (2020, Jonathan Cape, Abrams Books.)She is the illustrator of a number of children’s books including One Hundred Billion Trillion Stars, Power ...

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48:18

Comic Boom - Comics in Education with Mollie Ray

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2024/08/21

Send us a Text Message.In this episode Lucy chats to illustrator and graphic novelist Mollie Ray.Mollie is a Lancaster-based comic artist and illustrator, her debut graphic novel Giant was published in 2024 with Faber and Faber. In 2019, Mollie graduated from The University of Edinburgh with a First-Class Honours degree in Illustration. Her work has been featured by Creative Boom, The AOI and Broken Frontier's 'Six To Watch In 2021'.She has also done work for the BBC in support of David Atten...

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Comic Boom - Comics in Education with The Rickard...

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2024/08/07

Send us a Text Message.In this week's episode Lucy chats to comics creating duo The Rickard Sisters. Scarlett & Sophie Rickard, sisters who work together to make graphic novels.Sophie does the words and Scarlett draws the pictures. Scarlett has been drawing since before Sophie was born, and Sophie has been telling her what to draw since she learned to talk. Their first graphic novel was Mann’s Best Friend (2017). The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists was published in Autumn 2020 ...

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Comic Boom - Comics in Education with Athens Comics...

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2024/07/24

Send us a Text Message.In this week's episode Lucy chats to passionate comics advocate Lida Tsene. Lida is Head of PR, Art and Educational Programs of Comicdom Con Athens, founder of the Athens Comics Library, managing co-director of the Digital Comics Museum, organiser and curator of several events, exhibitions, conferences and workshops. Currently, she is a researcher and teaching associate at the MA Program Communication and New Journalism of Open University of Cyprus, at the MA Cult...

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47:30

Comic Boom - Comics in Education with writer Swapna...

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2024/07/10

Send us a Text Message.In this episode Lucy talks to writer Swapna Reddy (who you may know as Swapna Haddow!).Swapna Haddow is the multi award-winning children’s author of the Dave Pigeonseries, published by Faber & Faber. The Dave Pigeon series has received rave reviews since first publishing in 2016 and went on to win three regional awards in the UK and was shortlisted for the prestigious Sainsbury’s Children’s Book Award.Swapna loves to write about boisterous animals that cause mayhem ...

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51:16

Comic Boom - Comics in Education with Chie Kutsuwada...

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2024/06/26

Send us a Text Message.In today’s episode Lucy is joined by a wonderful creative duo - Chie Kutsuwada and Julian Sedgwick. Chie is UK based Japanese manga creator and illustrator. Chie graduated from Royal College of Art, London, and since then has carved out a successful career in illustration. She creates her own illustrated stories and comics strips, as well as working on titles like the manga version of Shakespeare’s As You Like It (SelfMadeHero, London). Chie also regularly ru...

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Comic Boom - Comics in Education with Clare McGreevy...

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2024/06/12

In this episode Lucy chats with educator Clare McGreevy and illustrator Chris Mould about an innovative comic project involving schools across Rochdale, developing reading for pleasure through comics and also supporting the creation of comics - through re-imagining the untold stories of the historic Rochdale Town Hall. Clare McGreevy is an Advisory Teacher for Reading in Rochdale Council’s Virtual School. Prior to this, Clare had been a teacher, English Lead and Phase Leader with over 18...

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45:37

Comic Boom - Comic in Education - with 'Star Cat' and...

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2024/05/29

In this episode Lucy chats with writer and comics creator, James Turner.James is a cartoonist and writer, creator, with illustrator Yasmin Sheikh. As well as Star Cat, his comic strip Clatters and Bump regularly appears in weekly comic The Phoenix.James joins me to talk about his new graphic novel Toby and the Pixies: Worst King Ever! illustrated by Andreas Schuster is out on 6 June 2024.James's recommendation for this episode:The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le GuinLucy's re...

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75:32

Comic Boom - Comics in Education with author and...

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2024/05/16

In this episode Lucy chats to professor and author Nick Sousanis.Nick Sousanis is an Eisner-winning comics author and an associate professor of Humanities & Liberal Studies at San Francisco State University, where he started and runs a Comics Studies program. He received his doctorate in education at Teachers College, Columbia University in 2014, where he wrote and drew his dissertation entirely in comic book form. Titled Unflattening, it argues for the importance of visual thinking in te...

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Comic Boom - Comics in Education - with author and...

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2024/03/27

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Comic Boom - Comics in Education - with the Cartoon...

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2024/03/08

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Comic Boom - Comics in Education with World Book Day...

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2024/02/27

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Comic Boom - Comics in Education - Excelsior Award...

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2024/02/22

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Comic Boom - Comics in Education with academic Kevin...

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2024/02/15

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