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12 Nov 2024
From now on, you can find us on:
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Sandra Marrs John Chalmers retweeted
Five Scottish comics writers and graphic novelists to check out next heraldscotland.com/news/2580… @BarryDidcock @heraldscotland @edward_ross @metaphrog
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Sandra Marrs John Chalmers retweeted
12 Sep 2025
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Team work colouring our graphic novel: John is flatting in Clip Studio Paint, then we export files to Photoshop, convert them to CMYK (with no K in the colour mix except for the line art), before I colour and shade.
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Sandra Marrs John Chalmers retweeted
2 Apr 2025
.@scholasticuk has swooped for a “whimsical” middle-grade graphic novel series by the Franco-Scottish duo John Chalmers and Sandra Marrs, known collectively as Metaphrog 👇 thebookseller.com/rights/sch…
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2 Apr 2025
Just popping on here to share big news! We’re SO thrilled to announce we’ve signed a 2 book deal with @scholasticuk for a MG fantasy graphic novel series! Part of their new imprint Graphix, Wilomina will publish in 2026 and 2027. Massive thanks to our agent @MollyJamieson !
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13 Mar 2025
Big news! Our next graphic novel will be with Scholastic UK. They’re bringing the brillant Graphix imprint to the UK. We’ll be part of it with our new book, which will also be lead title at Bologna Book Fair! More on this soon!
Graphix is our favourite imprint! We’re so thrilled!
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Sandra Marrs John Chalmers retweeted
13 Mar 2025
.@scholasticuk is launching graphic novel imprint Graphix in the UK
bookbrunch.co.uk/page/articl… (£)
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Sandra Marrs John Chalmers retweeted
13 Mar 2025
.@scholasticuk is bringing its graphic novel imprint Graphix to the UK following success in the US 👇 thebookseller.com/rights/sch…
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8 Nov 2024
Thanks @AlnessLanguages for inviting us. Had a great time!
A massive thank you to Sandra and John @metaphrog for their session on Comic writing with our S2 pupils and for being a part of our first P7 Transition event. Looking forward to all the comic writing next week.
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5 Nov 2024
This is very sad. Wondering how much of this has been exacerbated by the pandemic, with kids not being in school and taking the habit of using screens a lot more at a critical point in their life. Thankfully comics are here ti help: more and more kids are reading them.
5 Nov 2024
Report finds ‘shocking and dispiriting’ fall in children reading for pleasure theguardian.com/books/2024/n…
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Sandra Marrs John Chalmers retweeted
5 Nov 2024
This is awful news. If I might suggest from the comics side of things, however, you do see that when you show children how to create their own comics, and they then ✨realise all the stories of their own that they can tell✨ it really empowers them and ignites a thirst for more.
5 Nov 2024
Report finds ‘shocking and dispiriting’ fall in children reading for pleasure theguardian.com/books/2024/n…
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1 Nov 2024
If you're around Edinburgh, we're doing a (free) comic workshop for 16 at @natlibscot, sharing lots of tips for making your own comics. That's Friday 15th November at 2.30pm - looking forward to it!
Book here: nls.uk/whats-on/creating-com…
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30 Oct 2024
Currently reading It’s Lonely at the Centre of the Earth by @zoethorogood . So many great visual ideas there📚
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Sandra Marrs John Chalmers retweeted
29 Oct 2024
Can 100% throw my hat behind this & categorically state that these collaborations really do reach new readers, create more excited fan bases and produce reoccurring stock purchases.
It’s one of the most wonderful partnerships in the library space! ✨🖤✨
28 Oct 2024
"Publishers could reach countless new readers by collaborating more creatively with libraries."
Read about how to make more of libraries 👇 thebookseller.com/comment/ma…
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An early Halloween cartoon for New Scientist 🧪🦇
ALT Image: A cavernous laboratory filled with sinister outdated equipment, pickled organs, a pentagram and a corpse on a slab. Outside the window, bats fly past the moon while at a desk an angry-looking woman with crazed hair and a lab coat writes in a ledger. Caption: Janet had not imagined that being an evil scientist would involve so much evil paperwork.
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24 Oct 2024
Exciting!
24 Oct 2024
Huge congratulations to @merrowchild and @sarahmaxwellart on the publication of PHANTOM HEARTS, the spooky, sapphic graphic novel of your dreams 💜
When a school bus crashes, killing the students on board, Malia and Keezy must work together to discover the truth...
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23 Oct 2024
Something amazing happened! Monday morning we posted on Insta about our struggle to find Staedtler blue lead nibs in the UK. We had managed to get a few online, but it looked like after that there were none left anywhere online in the UK
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23 Oct 2024
(amazon EU still seem to sell the 2mm ones, but for how long ?). Staedtler UK actually DMed us straight away, apologising they had discontinued the line, but said they had some left kicking about in their office if we wanted them. Two days later (so just now) a box arrived
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23 Oct 2024
through the mail, first class signed for, full of Staedtler Mars Lumochrom 2mm blue lead nibs
and also some 0.5 ones, PLUS two complimentary pen holders! This made our day! What an amazing thing to do. There is still kindness left in this world. Thank you so much Staedtler UK!
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