THE Ups and Downs of Life as a Comic Book Creator is recounted by Tim Quinn at The Wharf in Tavistock on Thursday February 19.
Stories told in pictures have been around for a long time — from prehistoric cave wall drawings through the Bayeaux Tapestry.
But it was those masters of mirth, the Victorians, who finally came up with the handy-dandy-sized comic book and a whole new astonishing art form was created.
From the Penny Dreadful to modern times, comic book scriptwriter, illustrator and editor Tim Quinn takes the audience on a nostalgic trip down memory lane to meet some of the great and not-so great comic characters of the last 150 years.
Tim also goes behind the scenes from his days working for The Beano, Sparky, Bunty, Playhour, Jack and Jill, Buster, The Topper, the Daily Mirror's Jane and Garth, and America's finest Marvel Comics to running his own comic book company, alongside the elder daughter of Enid Blyton.
He will guide the audience through the creation of a brand new comic book character and reveal his own secret identity as that supreme speedster, Jet Lagg.
The audience is invited to attend wearing capes and masks.
Suitable for boys and girls from nine to 150!
Box office 01822 611166.