Insights

A comedy comic can contain a brilliant character, a sharp drawing and a beautifully absurd premise, yet still miss the laugh if the reveal arrives too soon.…

Carrotty Kid belongs to the wonderfully odd corner of comic-strip storytelling where a vegetable-headed hero can stride into danger, trade insults with a…

George vs Dragon is built around a wonderfully simple comic contradiction: a small, determined character faces a large, supposedly fearsome dragon and refuses…

A good ghost story needs more than rattling chains and a chilly corridor. It needs a personality, a sharp sense of timing and a reason for readers to keep…

Bad Grandad has never been short of opinions, but he has always been short of patience with books. He prefers a newspaper folded into a paper aeroplane, a…

A comic strip earns loyalty through recognition. Readers return for familiar characters, a recognisable visual style and the reassuring rhythm of a joke that…

Fantasy armour and weapons have to do several jobs at once. They establish a character’s status, suggest the world’s history, and make an action scene easy to…

Carrotty Kid has spent most lunchtimes scribbling in his maths book, so when the notice went up about the Mossbridge Primary talent quest, he nearly walked…

There's something quietly delightful about a gag strip that takes medieval fantasy and gives it the kind of gentle ribbing Australian readers appreciate. Andy…

Andy Fanton has built a reputation as a cartoonist who finds comedy in the strangest corners of British comic history, and his strips for the legendary Dandy…