Sorry for the late notice about this - I thought I had posted about it after mantioning it a while ago on Facebook or Twitter...!
Just to let you know that
there is a campaign about to close on Kickstarter which might be of interest to members...
Edinburgh-based cartoonist Steven White (under his pen-name of Stref) is launching a new comic album in the
clear line style, featuring the adventures of doughty girl photo-journalist Tara Togs! With the work of Hergé and Jacobs - amongst others - firmly in mind, this is set to be a rollicking mystery/ adventure in the grand tradition of
Tintin,
Blake & Mortimer and
Julius Chancer!
It's down to the last 48 hours of the campaign, so you will need to be quick if you want to back the book (it is well over-subscribed already, so looks certain to happen - but please bear in mind that there is always a certain degree of risk with any crowd-funding project), but it looks like it is going to a be a lot of fun!
Steven is a very talented artist - in addition to having produced an acclaimed graphic novel of J.M. Barrie's
Peter Pan (which lead to him being involved in designs for
Moat Brae house when it re-opened in 2019 as Peter Pan's Enchanted Land and a National Centre for Children's Literature and Storytelling), he was an artist for D.C. Thompson's
Dandy and
Beano comics, as well as working on the long-running characters
The Broons and
Oor Wullie for their
The Sunday Post newspaper. He has been a regular contributor to
Viz comic, including their satirical take on the British monarchy,
The Broon Windsors, cheekily done in the manner of
The Broons!
There are sample pages of Tara Togs on the Kickstarter page, so please do take a look!
