🥳 We're thrilled that CORPSE TALK: Ground-Breaking Explorers is in The Week Junior's list of 50 books to read this summer! Congratulations Adam Murphy & Lisa Murphy!

📚 See the full list here: ow.ly/HPaL50PlWiu

Corpse Talk first appeared in The Phoenix comic 💫

Time is money. If it takes twice as long to do something you earn half as much. This is the brutal fact at the heart of Brexit.

Let’s 'Brexit' a £12.99 paperback, blow by blow, and see what difference leaving the single market has made.

🥳 Congratulations The Phoenix comic! 600 issues of possibly the greatest children’s comic on the planet! That’s such an incredible achievement, and a whole lot of hard work and talent involved. Here’s to the next 600 💖
(Ace front cover by Jess Bradley)

I feel totally honoured to have read an early copy of Gary Northfield 🇺🇦’s upcoming NEW AWESOME book, ‘Leif: The Unlucky Viking - Saga of the Shooting Star’ 🌟 I’ve always loved Gary’s creations & this is no exception! Totally recommend for guaranteed laughs! uk.bookshop.org/p/books/leif-t…

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📢Applications are now open for a second round of Refreshing Your Practice: caching for mid-career writers. Here's a 🧵on why you shoulod tell the writers in your life to apply, deadlines & support available... coachingforcreatives.co.uk/refreshing-you…

Born on this day in 1743, Toussaint Louverture led the black uprising that resulted in the Haitian Revolution. He was born a slave, and he died in captivity, having dealt a decisive first blow to colonialism and slavery.
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So Lisa Murphy and I got commissioned to try out this rather delightful collaborative drawing app DrawnTogether. Your drawing gets matched up with random other artists. I thought it was quite fun. ⁠
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DrawnTogether App #DrawnTogether #DrawnTogether Artist #commission ⁠

Have you read Corpse Talk, one of the fantastic books in the Non-Fiction Shortlist?

Here are Lisa Murphy and Adam Murphy to tell you why you should vote for Corpse Talk!

Vote now: shop.scholastic.co.uk/lollies/vote

500 episodes and it still, impossibly, just gets better every week. Rounds of applause, tossed bouquets and some kind of commemorative cheese platter please for Bunny vs Monkey, and for Jamie Smart 🎉⭐️🍰🎉⭐️

If Non-Fiction is your favourite shortlist, join Adam Murphy, Chae Strathie, Mike Barfield, Jess Bradley, and Olaf Falafel on Thursday 27th April for a laugh-out-loud event!

Sign up now: shop.scholastic.co.uk/lollies/events

A reminder to all The Phoenix comic Fest digital ticket holders to look out for their live stream event link which has now been sent out. If you don't receive your link, please check your spam folder carefully!

The #CorpseTalk books are great and so is the series on YouTube! Great for bringing history back to life! 😏 (and for assisting with holiday homework!!).

Adam Murphy Tiger Aspect Kids & Family

Hey while I’m on here: it’s Phoenix Fest THIS WEEKEND, and you can join in wherever you are! Live-stream comics making events with an amazing line-up of brilliant creators Jamie Smart Jess Bradley Zak Simmonds-Hurn AbbyBulmer Gary Northfield 🇺🇦 AND MEEEEE storymuseum.org.uk/whats-on/phoen…

Looking for a fun Easter activity? Well, why not draw a bunny?

Of course, Bunny from Bunny vs Monkey isn't your usual rabbit... but join Jamie Smart over on #BookTrustHomeTime to get doodling! booktrust.org.uk/hometime

In the Frame is back! 💥

If you're an emergent comics creator based in Scotland, join us at our online event on Monday 24 April ☀️

Read all about it and book your free place:
creativescotland.com/what-we-do/lat…

#comics #graphicnovel #scottishwriters

“Your love of Star Wars, despite the brand-related insistence of its permanence as culturally fundamental, is, in existential terms, as meaningless as your great grandmother’s love of Edward Bulwer Lytton, or your grandfather’s addiction to Edgar Wallace thrillers. Sorry.”

Bunny Vs Monkey: Rise Of The Maniacal Badger has been shortlisted for Children’s Illustrated Book Of The Year in the #britishbookawards #nibbies 🥳🥳🥳