Art Heroes announce all-ages comic anthology ‘Endangered & More Strange Stories’

October 27, 2014

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Cover - Copy The fine folks at Art Heroes recently held the official launch of their new all-ages comic anthology Endangered & More Strange Stories at Newcastle City Library.

The team will also be playing a big part at next month’s Thought Bubble Festival, hosting their third annual Thought Bubble Creating Characters Competition. To celebrate the new strip ‘Monster Book’ from the pages of Endangered & Other Strange Stories, they’re asking members of the public to join in and create their own scary creatures! For a chance to win a special prize, Thought Bubble attendees should head along to the Art Heroes table in Armouries Hall for a worksheet, which should be returned by the end of the weekend.

Keep your eyes glued to bigcomicpage.com in the very near future for a review of Endangered & More Strange Stories, and check out the official press release – along with some tasty preview artwork – below;

Also, if you’re NOT attending Thought Bubble this year, have no fear as you can pick yourself up a copy of Endangered & Other Stories RIGHT HERE.

Newcastle, UK – October 22^nd 2014 – Art Heroes, a British publisher and comics workshop facilitation team, today announced the launch of Endangered & More Strange Stories, a full colour, all-ages comics anthology. Written by Daniel Clifford, illustrated by Lee Robinson with colour assists from Shaun Balbirnie and edited by Mark E. Johnson, Endangered & More Strange Stories features a time travelling vet, an outlaw cowboy and a group of Newcastle kids who ought to know better than to tangle with monsters…

“We’ve tried to represent the young readers we meet through our workshops by having a diverse range of stories and characters,” said Daniel. “This comic features stories with a wider appeal than superheroes – time travel, animals, a western and a scary story – and the characters are diverse to represent the young people we meet. There are thousands of young people looking for stories that represent people like them – that’s our aim with Endangered & More Strange Stories.”

In keeping with Art Heroes’ ongoing goal of getting children engaged with reading and creative activities, Endangered & More Strange Stories also includes back matter from Art Heroes workshops designed to encourage kids to pick up a pen or pencil.

“Endangered is the accumulation of years of hard work, late nights scribbling away and always thriving to be a better artist,” Lee commented. “I can say that it’s the first time where I’ve felt I haven’t left anything behind, and I’m immensely proud to put it in people’s hands. Putting it together has been a great experience, and I truly hope that this is reflected with the pages.”

Endangered & More Strange Stories is Lee and Daniel’s third major collaboration. The team have had their work published by the acclaimed British kids’ anthology The Phoenix Comic and have just released a collected edition of their coming-of-age superhero comic, Halcyon & Tenderfoot.

Offering 36 full-colour pages for just £3.50, Endangered & More Strange Stories is available now from ArtHeroes.co.uk and will be on sale in select retailers soon. Art Heroes is also holding a special launch event for the comic at Newcastle City Library on Saturday October 25^th. Lee and Daniel will be on-hand to hold a free kids’ workshop on time travel and scary comics as well as sign and sketch in copies of the anthology. Art Heroes will also be appearing at the Thought Bubble Comics Festival on 15th and 16th of November where attendees will be able to get a signed copy of the comic at a discounted rate.