Degree Show at Staffs Uni

Cartoon and Comic Arts 

Degree Show

June 2nd 2017 

Here is the Cartoon and Comic Arts Degree Show 

Matt Fair, did a story based on Boadicea - "Iceni", he also composed a song and printed T-Shirts to advertise the comic and his work. 

Hannah Stanway - Produced Death Bites, a story about a group of people who have to band together to survive the Zombie Apocalypse. Hannah also produced a video (Available on YouTube) to advertise her work as a broken CCTV which records the demise of the human race.

Kale McAleer - produced a web comic which showed how the technology was and is changing for Comic Artist. Is Comic Nanty Narkings is available on line 

Natalie Burgher - Produced Villains Alliance in the second semester which is a story of a group of misfit criminals coming together to steal a Picture from on art gallery. Her first semesters work, The Law and the Lawless is a love story of two different types of people coming together for the good of the town,

Michy Kahuya - Tell the story of a conquering Alien who invades Earth, only to find he can't breathe the air. His only escape is to invade a small dog and control the creature to full-fill his mission.

Shaun Nicholls - Tells a modern take on Tron, of a character who has to enter the realms of the gaming world to find his girlfriend who has been snatched by a mysterious creature. So if you like Assassins Creed or Legend of Zelda this book, "Jordan Saves The Universe" is for you. 

Ollie Humm comic is about strange creatures that live in plain sight that you might not notice. his "Monsters Around The World" tells a story of a girls her finds an old book that documents these creatures and she goes to try and find them. 

Tom Guilfoyle produced "The Black Voyage" a time travelling horror story with a twist.

Lawrence Copeman tells a tale of a traveller who has crashed on a planet and pines for his true love. 

Sam Megaw story "Team Hyperstrike" tells a tale of a young girl and her team of adventurer seekers who will do anything for the right price.

Isaac Hirschfield-Wight Tells a trippy tale of "Terror Twilight" a tale where the inhabitant of an asylum doesn't really know if hes mad or not.

Phoenix Cooper-Morriss  "Mountain Fruit" is about a young Dwarfs first day working in the local brothel. 

Paul Walshaw -  "The Mark of The Warrior" is a tale of a group of individuals who all must challenge one another in mortal combat.

Tony Holdsworth has taken the two best things ever (Wrestling and Space) and put them together to create "Space Wrestling." Raging Bull returns to avenge a suit malfunction which causes him to loose his big match.  

Daniel Johnson - Delivers his take on a Dungeon and Dragons Game he and his friends play - "The Heroes of Hero Falls"

Zach Cobb- Powerful story "Without Us" tells of a strange planet and its inhabitants and how it has survived and flourished over the centuries. 

Meggie Stobbs tells a story of an unlikely alliance between Vampires and other ungodly creatures coming together to face the real true demon

Alessandra Lombardi Continues her "Hermanos" story line, set in a post apocalyptic world, two brothers must find one another to survive. 

Jesse Mclure New TV show

Storage Hunter Jesse Mclure

New TV show and Comic Artist  

As part of the Stoke Con Trent Event we get visited by a wide range of guest. One of the favourites is Storage Hunter Jesse Mclure. Jesse was in the UK doing a new TV Show for Quest TV. While around the Manchester he rekindled his love of comics and came up with an idea to advertise his new show at the Stoke Con Trent event on Sunday 2nd October. It required the help of cartoon and comic artist who were given a script and Jesse's wanted to have a Comic strip of him.

A range of students tried the brief. The final version will be shown at the Stoke Con Trent Event in October 

The image up above contains work (from left to right) from Tony Holdsworth, Shaun Nichols, Tom Guilfoyle and Emily Moore.

Tony Holdsworth Comic Review

2nd Cartoon and Comic Arts Comic Review By Tony Holdsworth 

STRIP.By Sarah Gordon

STRIP is a visceral experience. It features only one character, who begins the comic standing with hands crossed in front of her, looking at you. She is closed off. She opens up, and takes a full page to give us a seductive look before going into her strip tease. The woman takes off her blouse and casts it to the floor. She rests her hand on her stomach, still looking at you, savouring the look you’re giving her, how much you’re both enjoying it. She takes off her gloves with her teeth and drops them. She pulls her dress off, reveals her corset and lingerie. And then she pulls the corset open. This carries on, never breaking eye contact or her smile for too long, until she is completely nude.

Where can she go from here? How are we not even half way through the book?

She picks up a knife.

From there the book devolves into chaos and self-mutilation and the colour palette expands to include not just black and white now, but red too. While a later spread uses the 9-panel grid, it reads differently to previous pages using that structure. It’s now a strobing effect showing you gore instead of a nicely paced, rhythmic, erotic strip tease.

STRIP made me feel vile. It made me feel like a pervert. It’s probably the most genuine emotional experience I’ve had in a long time reading a comic. By using similar pacing and structure in both halves, the feeling of revulsion and titillation overlap and make you question yourself. Or at least it did for me, maybe I’m just a terrible person.

It’s just that the woman of Strip feels so real. Gordon hasn’t drawn her to be pornstar-perfect, the woman is clumsy sometimes. She falls over. Her lewd smile slips sometimes before she remembers she’s being watched. It’s because of this humanity that when it all hits the fan (which I’m deliberately being vague about) it really made a deep mark on me.

I can see why Sarah Gordon was nominated for a British Comic Award. I’m looking forward to seeing what she does next.

Sarah Gordon can be found at:

Website: http://sarah-gordon.com

Twitter: @notsarahgordon

Instagram: instagram.com/ratherlemony

Shop: sarahgordonartist.bigcartel.com/