Pop Star Colouring Books

12/04/2025

What she said

(Never sure what to do backstage). The next comedy is on May 23rd with aka The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre! Book tickets now: they may well sell out… the time is now!

30/10/2024

My Nan Volleyed Crumpet Into The Fireplace - today's comic by kids at Swansea Libraries in St Thomas and Sketty, in my Comic Art Masterclasses.

Tomorrow: Maidenhead Library, RBWM Libraries be there!

25/10/2024

Potatoes Of Doom Vs The Unstoppable Crumpet + The Big Fat Unicorn Who Got Squished By A Pineapple - yesterday's comics by kids at West Bridgford & Beeston libraries Inspire Nottinghamshire Libraries in my Comic Art Masterclasses.

Next week: Putney, Letchworth, Swansea , Maidenhead & artsdepot Finchley!

12/10/2024

They’re Eating The Dogs! They’re Eating The Cats! - and other stories. A week of comics by kids in Killorglin and Killlarney, County Kerry.

A week of comics by kids in schools in County Kerry, Ireland. Oh and also The Lake District and Port Talbot. Did I ever mention distance is ...

26/09/2024

26/09/2024

Brand new - order now in time for Christmas! The Hollywood Legends Colouring Book!

From Chaplin to Welles, Bette Davis to Marilyn, John Wayne to James Dean, Carmen Miranda to Jayne Maynesfield, you name a legend from the golden age of Hollywood and they're in this book waiting to be coloured. In gold, if you insist. All original drawings done by hand by me, Kev F, with in depth articles on every star.

https://www.lulu.com/shop/kev-f-sutherland-and-kev-sutherland/hollywood-legends-colouring-book/paperback/product-57e62d2.html

12/09/2024

An interesting conversation is happening on Jamie Smart's Facebook, where a primary school Mum has banned a kid bringing Bunny Vs Monkey in. It's nostalgic for those of us remembering when comics were so popular this sort of thing used to happen. (eg Professor Wertham's Seduction Of The Innocent, IPC's Action comic getting mentioned in the House, Eagle comic being created in response to US horror comics etc)

To put the comics in context, Bunny Vs Monkey is the single most popular British comic amongst kids that I have experienced in all the time I've been doing Comic Art Masterclasses (which will soon be twenty years, gulp). In the past year, when I do my flipchart drawing at the start of the day, I've found Bunny Vs Monkey (rivalled only by Dogman) to be the most recognised character by primary school kids, and the most enthusiastically greeted too.

It's got to the stage now that, when I'm getting them to guess which Marvel superhero I worked on (before their parents were born, it was Dr Strange) most of them can't even name a Marvel Superhero. Those have slipped from their zone of interest in the same way as Doctor Who did about a decade ago. It's a sad thing to see, but inevitable I guess.

So viva Jamie & Bunny vs Monkey, and long may they be so big that parents notice them enough to want to ban them. Examples of BvM on my flipcharts pictured.

11/09/2024

Today's super book bargain, my Comic Book Of Esther graphic novel (black & white edition) is on Amazon for just £3.91

No, I don't know how they do it so cheaply, get it while it's hot

The Book Of Esther - where Mordecai and Esther have to fend off the threat of extermination by the evil Haman. The Purim story as a Disneyesque comedy adventure. Originally commissioned by Bible Society, this story written and drawn by Kev F Sutherland is now available in a pocketbook sized paper...

11/09/2024

In time for the Christmas presents season, I've updated the Pop Star Colouring Book.

Now includes Every Winning Country and Every Winner, inc Nemo from 2024 and stats & articles for your reading and colouring pleasure.



Order from Amazon (any country) https://amazon.co.uk/dp/1470948907
Possibly cheaper from Lulu (if they reach your area) https://www.lulu.com/shop/kev-sutherland/unofficial-eurovision-colouring-book-volume-2-all-the-winners/paperback/product-9pve67.html

01/09/2024

Revenge Of The Killer Pastie + The Alarm Clock Of Doom - comics made with families in my Comic Art Masterclasses yesterday at as part of SeptemberFest

Taking bookings for book festivals, and schools for the next year. You know where to find me.

29/08/2024

Today I have mostly been working on another brand new book.

It doesn't look like much thanks to my contrived way of working (biro scribble script, edited with scissors and sellotape, then rough pencil on A4, then the lettering, then... the bit that comes next is actually drawing it. So we have words but no pictures at the mo. Stay tuned)

Annoyingly this is the 5th or 6th brand new book I've started and, because they're being done as demos to show to other people rather than projects for me to see through from start to finish right now, they're all half finished. I'm looking at four quarter-done Shakespeares, something to do with science, some samples for a history thing, a not-even-started idea for a Socks Post Office Scandal book (that may still happen), and now this, an idea that someone showed an interest in, that's fun to do, and I've outlined a cracking plot, but now I'll be drawing 20 pages and leaving it again. It's a funny life, this traditional publishing (or not as the matter may be) lark.

23/08/2024

The Family With The Big Gyatt and other stories - this week's comics by kids in my Comic Art Masterclasses at St Benedicts CVA CDerby & Shoreham

https://kevfcomicart.blogspot.com/2024/08/the-family-with-big-gyatt-yet-more.html

The celebrities these six groups chose to appear in my demonstration strip were Drake, Tom Holland, Dwayne The Rock Johnson (twice), Mr Beast, and Boris Johnson.