Comic Boom - The Comics in Education podcast with Neill Cameron

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In this episode I chat with award winning comics creator, Neill Cameron.

Neill Cameron is a cartoonist and writer, creator of the comic books Mega Robo Bros,   Since 2011 his work has appeared in the weekly children’s comic The Phoenix. In 2016 Mega Robo Bros and Tamsin and the Deep were both shortlisted for the British Comics Awards. In 2017, Mega Robo Bros won the Excelsior Award Jr, a national comic award voted for by school and library reading groups across the UK. In 2018 Mega Robo Bros was chosen as one of the best children's comics of the year by both the New York Public Library and the Schools Library Journal.

MOre recently Neill has become known for the brilliant Donut Squad Series, run as a series of comic strips in The Phoenix, and later collected in books.

This interview first appeared as a written article in Books for Keeps, the Uk's leading, independent children's book magazine.

Neill's recommendation from the show: Go Man! by Hamish Steele

Lucy's recommendation from the show: Raised by Ghosts by Briana Loweinsohn

This episode of Comic Boom is sponsored by ALCS, The Authors Licensing and Collecting Society.

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