The Giselle Clarkson Comic: Number 43
Forward this link to your boss instead of a doctor’s certificate – the Giselle Clarkson comic is full of good reasons to skip work today.
Comics
The Giselle Clarkson Comic: Number 41
Giselle Clarkson is kicking off her comics this year with the book character dress-up equivalent of kids running around shouting at panicking younger and smaller-vocabularied children that their epidermis is showing.
The Giselle Clarkson Comic: Number 40
The Giselle Clarkson Comic has reached its fortieth post and what better way to celebrate than by giving someone a book. That you inscribed, maybe even in pen, with a personal message. Do you dare?
The Giselle Clarkson Comic: Number 39
In this month’s comic, Giselle Clarkson comments on questionable rhymes and sketchy poems from the Mother Goose of yore.
The Reckoning: Science in Comics
Comics and graphic novels are a wonderful medium for kids and adults alike. Science communicator Katherine Hurst talks us through how science is portrayed in comic form and gives some great examples. It’s 2023, so hopefully there’s nobody out there…
The Sampling: Tuahangata tae e whā
Nā Richard Fairgray Nā Komako A. Silver and Alejandra Jensen i whakamāori Richard Fairgray’s Four-Color Heroes (Fanbase Press) is now also available digitally in te reo Māori! You can find it on Hoopla (from 11 September), Comics Plus, Google Books,…
Interview: Giselle Clarkson, Arts Laureate
This month, the children’s book community of Aotearoa New Zealand – and anyone who’s every interacted with her, probably – was collectively delighted to learn that illustrator Giselle Clarkson is one of the 2023 Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi Laureates….
The Giselle Clarkson Comic: Number 38
Do descriptions of food in books have you drooling or recoiling in disgust? This edition of the Giselle Clarkson comic delves into the delights and despair of the culinary in children’s literature.
The Giselle Clarkson Comic: Number 37
This month’s edition of the Giselle Clarkson comic tackles every creative person’s most daunting task: coming up with ideas.
The Giselle Clarkson Comic: Number 36
In this edition of the Giselle Clarkson comic, Giselle explores a gripe she has in the children’s publishing industry: celebrities becoming authors. Her solution? Turn the authors into celebrities…