metaphrog.com
metaphrog.com
https://metaphrog.com
GRAPHIC NOVELS
Metaphrog offers a pastel-hewn modern take on the venerable tale that is delightfully offbeat and thrilling, with an actively heroic lead and unexpected magical menaces. — LIBRARY JOURNAL. In a book of berry-bright colours, predominantly luminous deep pink and blue, the images of heroic Eve and Tom the goat boy stand out, weighty and rich, as ...
AUTHOR VISITS
Metaphrog enthralled children from Year 7 at Fitzalan High School with a lively demonstration creating comic book characters and effects. All the children created their own cartoons and enthusiastically shared their drawings which showed an impressive range of humour and skills. We'd love Metaphrog to come back and visit again.
ABOUT
Metaphrog tirelessly travel to promote the medium of comics and have delivered 700+ author visit sessions. They were Patrons of Reading at Northfield Academy, in Aberdeen, 2013-17, Writers in Residence at the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2015 and Graphic Novel Authors in Residence with Glasgow Life at Holyrood Secondary School 2019.
THE FIRST MEN ON MERCURY
A comic adaptation by Metaphrog from the poem by Edwin Morgan, commissioned by The Association for Scottish Literary Studies in 2009. 35000 copies of the comic were distributed to all Glasgow Secondary schools for National Poetry Day 2009. Link. Link. Link. Link. → Read the original poem. → Read the teaching notes. Link. Link.
PUBLIC APPEARANCES
Public appearances by Metaphrog award-winning graphic novelists. Events, talks and workshops at book festivals and comic conventions and more...
REVIEWS
Metaphrog has crafted something unique, uncompromising, and greater than the sum of its parts.If only more comics were so genuinely transporting. — Rain Taxi Review of books. Maybe it's the palette that makes the Louis series look as though it's meant for kids. Louis is an unassuming worker with a head like a potato who lives with his pet ...