Bumble and Snug and the Angry Pirates: Book 1

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Janice: How did you make Bumble such a funny character? Can you give us any tips for writing funny stories? Bumble is full of energy, always looking for adventure and getting into scrapes. Snug is a quieter and more sensible character, who would rather take things slowly. So, Bumble and Snug are two little creatures and I like to call these types of creatures bugbops, little monsters. And the thing I like about these is they can be as simple as you want to make them or as complex as you want to make them.

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You don’t need to draw along with this part. I’m just gonna… I’m gonna draw a bugbop that reflects how I’m feeling today. So, today I’m feeling really excited to be speaking with you all, but I’m also feeling a little bit nervous because I’m not used to being in front of television cameras, being in lights and being interviewed about things, so I’m going to try think of how that feels inside of me, that emotion. So what I do with that sometimes is I close my eyes and think about it. Now, the excitement… There’s different types of excitement, like every emotion. It’s not like the excitement when you feel it’s coming up to your birthday or Christmas. Where it’s like a slow build, and it’s just like “aw what am I going to get? What am I going to get?” This one’s kind of like a fizzy, nervous excitement, so it’s sparkly and it’s just a bit fizzy and a bit floaty in my head. So I’m going to create a shape like that. And it’s also a bit, there’s a little bit of spikes at the end there because that’s feeling a little bit jittery with the excitement. So I’m going to put an excited face there. So, there we go. But like I say, I’m also feeling a little bit nervous about being in front of cameras, being in front of, in a different environment, so that nervousness, it feels here in my body. So it’s going to be a really small shape. So what I’m going to do is I’m going to create a little body like that and put some arms and legs on it. So I’ve got the start of the character there. Now I have a colour that I associate with excitement and I’ll always use which is really bright pink. I love… Oops… I love bright pinks for everything.And we’re going to cut a little bit later, after they’ve had a little bit of an adventure finding some buried treasure. So: Introducing the super buddies! From a runaway ice-cream van to a lost teddy bear, Bumble, Snug and Sparklehoof the unicorn save the day. But not everybody is happy when Sparklehoof gets too excited with his magic. That’s still what Bumble looks like, she’s just warped her body to be that size so that’s the thing, you can never go wrong with her. That’s one of the reasons why I like drawing her so much ‘cause you can never, ever, ever, ever go wrong. So next up we have got Snug. The hilariousness of Bunny vs Monkey meets the emotional world of Inside Out with this full-colour graphic novel series for readers aged 5+ all about little monsters with BIG feelings going on hilarious adventures together! Armistice Day: A Collection of Remembrance - Spark Interest and Educate Children about Historical Moments

This is a brain-popping idea it makes me laugh so much! The characters (bumble and snug) have so much differences but fit perfectly as a pair. They go... The best thing about reading comics is the inherent sense of play and imagination you can have with them. But they might do terrible things to us, like making us walk the plank. Or feeding us to a shark, then feeding that shark to a whale, then feeding that whale to an even bigger whale!”

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So snug is a touch more complicated. Rather than the one shape that we’ve got for Bumble, we have four whole shapes for Snug. Snug is just an oval. And again, two little eyes and a mouth. There we go. An oval, two little triangles for the bow tie, another triangle for the body and there we go. Bumble and Snug and the Excited Unicorn is a story about being too excited and how to listen, friendship and magic, and three new SUPERHEROES! Work out how many panels you might need to tell the story with a beginning, middle and end (you could sketch these out before you draw your comic properly).