Full day school visit / comic workshops with Neill Cameron

A full day school visit of comics workshops from award-winning comics creator Neill Cameron (The Phoenix, Mega Robo Bros)! Ideally suited for KS2 pupils, Neill will visit a school (within a 100-mile radius of Oxford) nominated by the lot winner and work with the pupils, telling them a little about the process of creating graphic novels and then showing them how to come up with their own ideas and develop them into stories using the medium of comics. Neill has delivered these sessions in schools and at book festivals across the UK.

Neill Cameron is a cartoonist and writer, creator of the comic books Mega Robo Bros, Mo-Bot High, The Pirates of Pangaea (with Daniel Hartwell), Tamsin and the Deep (with Kate Brown), and the instructional How To Make Awesome Comics. 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. Neill also works as an artist-in-residence at The Story Museum in Oxford, where he contributed several large-scale comic strip installations and continues to be involved in comics-based education and activities, including running a monthly Comics Club group for young cartoonists. Neill frequently travels the country giving workshops in schools, libraries and at festivals, and is a passionate advocate for the role comics can play in developing literacy skills and encouraging children’s creativity.

Please note, the visit must take place at a venue within a 100-mile radius of Oxford.