Okay last week’s newsletter was a little heavy, so I thought I would lighten things up with the greatest tonal swerve imaginable so here, have a recent instalment of DONUT SQUAD:
…okay, cool. Back to normal. Anyway, I wanted to use this newsletter to share with you some ACTUAL NEWS, of an exciting live digital event I will be doing with the fine people at The Phoenix, on Friday 4th August!
Here’s the description:
To celebrate the publication of Mega Robo Bros: Carnival Crisis we have a super-special workshop where you can learn how to draw your favourite characters with master-artist Neill Cameron!
All ticket holders will be sent an exclusive Phoenix Shop voucher to get 20% off the whole Mega Robo Bros series, including brand-new book 6!
Every ticket also includes a digital ACTIVITY PACK full of creative drawing tips that will get you drawing long after the workshop is over. We will email this activity pack to you after the event.
This workshop is suitable for mega robot artists aged 7 and upwards, and will be hosted by Phoenix Editor (human office), Tom Fickling.
As this is a digital event, you need to purchase just 1 ticket per viewing device.
…so, yeah! I think it should be really fun, so if you do know any young Mega Robo Bros fans who might enjoy it - or indeed old ones! It’s on the internet, who cares! - please let them know. The link to buy tickets is:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mega-robo-masterclass-with-neill-cameron-tickets-643083248307
…and yeah, don’t forget CARNIVAL CRISIS is out on 3 August, one day before the event, and available now to pre-order from The Phoenix and from Bookshop.org and indeed from good bookshops everywhere! I think it’s the best one yet, but then I would say that wouldn’t I.
(It IS though.)
Alright anyway, while I’m here, I wanted to say thank to everyone who reached out across the various splintering social media platforms with kind words about last week’s post. I was very unhappy with it - after putting off writing it, or something like it, for the best part of two years, I ended up having to write it really quickly in stolen moments in between helping the boy with his latest Doctor who epic, and it just felt really messy and bitty and unsatisfactory, and didn’t in any way manage the job of actually getting across who Emma was and how much she meant to me. But, you know, that is probably an unrealistic amount to expect from a single substack post. So I’m going to stop beating myself up about it and just say, thank you.
Have booked the boy onto the workshop! I may have to shuffle my work schedule around so I can lurk...