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American Signing Tour

We're just back from our American signing tour and are feeling completely recharged and revitalised! What an absolutely FANTASTIC time! We met some truly wonderful people, all passionate about books and comics, and saw lots of amazing things. A massive thanks to Creative Scotland who provided funding - without their support this tour would not have been possible. Here are some highlights and photos! The trip started with several events at TCAF, The Toronto Comic A...

American Signing Tour

Very excited to announce that we'll be touring America this May! The tour will kick off at TCAF - The Toronto Comic Arts Festival, where we'll be part of their special programming: NBM turns 40 (events to be announced soon). Then we'll be doing a series of signings and events in:
Bethesda (DC area): Big Planet Comics - May17
Boston: The Million Year Picnic - May18
New York City - Jersey City: Word Bookstore - May20
http://www.wordbookstores.com/event/jc-metaphrog-presents-little-mermaid-graphic-...

On BBC Radio Scotland's The Janice Forsyth Show

We were delighted to be on the BBC Radio Scotland's The Janice Forsyth Show yesterday talking about our new graphic novel The Little Mermaid. You can listen again here - our segment is at 1h40min: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08jf6ll

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20 Years Since Our First Comic!

Unbelievably, this month sees the 20th anniversary of our very first comic. When we met in 1994 we started working on comics together almost right away and, after creating several short comic stories, eventually collected them in our first comic Strange Weather Lately - Martin Nitram #1 in December 1996. We brought this out with limited edition lino prints in silver and the tagline: "Stories from the surreal yet unnervingly real world of Martin Nitram". We jumped up and down a bit when D...

Winners of The Sunday Herald Scottish Culture Awards 2016

We're honoured and delighted to have won The Sunday Herald Scottish Culture Awards 2016 for Best Visual Artist!

The award ceremony was a fantastic evening, and it was a pleasure to meet some of the amazing finalists. Runners-up for the Best Visual Artist category were sculptor David J Mitchell, animation film maker and paper artist Eleanor Stewart and artist/activist Ellie Harrison. Congratulation to them all for their nominations.
Congratulations also to all the...

Finalist for The Sunday Herald Scottish Culture Awards 2016

We are finalists in the Best Visual Artist category for The Sunday Herald Scottish Culture Awards 2016. The finalists will appear in print in The Sunday Herald this weekend, with winners to be announced on July 7th at the award ceremony.

http://newsquestscotlandevents.com/events/sunday-herald-culture-awards/ (scroll down this link for the full list of finalists and judges).

Rosalie Lightning feature for The National

We've written a feature for The National newspaper about the graphic memoir Rosalie Lightning by Tom Hart. It's an incredibly powerful book about the loss of a child: Rosalie Lightning died just before turning two from unexplained causes. Rosalie loved one of our own books, Louis - Night Salad, and Tom integrates this and her other loves, including My Neighbor Totoro, into his graphic novel. We felt very moved, and wanted to respond in some way. Our best wishes to Tom Hart and Leela...

The Red Shoes and Other Tales Deleted Scenes

"Deleted Scene" from The Red Shoes and Other Tales. At the request of our publisher, Papercutz, we changed several pages in the final version of the graphic novel. 
Here we removed the blood from The Red Shoes story in the final version of the book:
Old version: Old version of page 41 in The Red Shoes and Other Tales Final version:
Final version of page 41 in The Red Shoes and Other TalesThe ending of The Little Match Girl was also changed. In the original tale, the little girl tragical...

Aye Write! 2016

We very much enjoyed being part of Aye Con at the Aye Write! Book Festival this year! There's a review of our solo talk here, and reviews of the panel with Frank Quitely, Alan Grant and ourselves here and here.
From left to right: chair Sasha de Buyl-Pisco, Alan Grant, Frank Quitely,
John and Sandra (Metaphrog) Post event signing at Aye Write!