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| Posted by: |  metaphrog |
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| Date: | October 12th, 2009 10:48 AM | ||
| Header: | Edwin Morgan Comic Adaptation | ||
| Bulletin: | The Association for Scottish Literary Studies commissioned us to make a comic adaptation of Edwin Morgan's poem, The First Men on Mercury, to celebrate National Poetry Day -October 8 2009 - as a way of interesting children (and adults) in poetry, visually. The story spans four, full colour A4 pages and has had the blessing of the poet himself. 32 500+ copies distributed to all pupils in Glasgow Secondary schools on the 8th of October The strip is running on the web on http://www.metaphrog.com/mercury, with some behind the scenes information on the making of the comic, and also teaching notes for the classroom The Forbidden Planet Blog ran the strip and the National Poetry Day website featured the event The Metro newspaper ran a full page feature on page 3 on September 23rd STV's The Hour also featured the project on October 8. |
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