Feelings I need to get rid of and feelings I need to remember

I was feeling glum when we did List Comics at @janeporter's weekly comics class

List comics are my favourite thing in comics class – if you don’t know what it is, check out

Tor Freeman

’s wonderful blog about List Comics at the ReposiTory … and here’s my comics classmate

Lucia Leyfield

quite wonderfully jumping the gun before we’d even had the List Comics session. The list theme was inspired by this Summer Pierre workshop.

(It’s also the one week when Jane encourages us to go lowfi, so no Procreate for me!)

But I’d been having a week of sads and instead of following the prompt to list things I love, I decided to make a list of …

Feelings I Need to Get Rid Of

Yeah, sad, right? Well I was sad and it was hard to shake it even though comic class was a tonic.

Jane suggested a second go at List Comics, and this time, she said try going for a theme opposite to our first attempt.

So I did …

Things I Love About School Visits

In case you don’t know what a school visit is, it’s the bread and butter of hard working children’s authors, visiting schools, giving workshops and talks that enthuse children about books. The first week of March is the busiest time for children’s authors in the UK because it’s World Book Week. I do love school visits, and I do love children. So despite my earlier negativity I found myself exploding with good things.

And dear reader, guess what? I felt a lot better.

All those lovely moments in schools chased the nasties away.

Also, I think going low fi helped.

More Examples of List Comics:

Matt Groening’s The Nine Types of Boyfriend
Tor Freeman’s A Short List of Animals That Have Bitten My Family Recently
***This space reserved for

Helen Stephens

who also attends the class and hopefully will post her list on Substack***
What Lucia Leyfield Loves
Gemma Correll does A LOT of list comics