The Wizzo

WizzKid97 · Post by **WizzKid97** » 18 Sep 2011, 20:33

Sorry, just wanted to make a page for the Wizzo, after all it seems we have some fans and I have some news that may interest you.

I'm sure every single one of you are familiar with the current Bananaman artist Wayne Thompson, but did you know he draws outside of DC Thomson for another comic, a comic also known as the Wizzo? That's right, he asked if he could work for us doing some guest strips. So now he's part of the team, and he is most welcome!

Jonny Whizz · Post by **Jonny Whizz** » 18 Sep 2011, 21:09

That's a really nice gesture by Wayne. I take my hat off to him for agreeing to draw for the Wizzo.

WizzKid97 · Post by **WizzKid97** » 18 Sep 2011, 21:15

Jonny Whizz wrote:That's a really nice gesture by Wayne. I take my hat off to him for agreeing to draw for the Wizzo.

I have been speaking to him, I'm honoured that he wished to join our comic, an offer I simply could not refuse! Do you mind if I take part in the 'taking my hat off to Wayne'?

felneymike · Post by **felneymike** » 18 Sep 2011, 22:42

Is it only "properly" sold at your school? Maybe one day you could collect together the finished issues in a "Wizzo annual" on a print-on-demand site like Lulu. I like the strips that can be read on deviantart anyway. Especially Imaginitive Imogen

Digifiend · Post by **Digifiend** » 18 Sep 2011, 23:46

Wow. Quite a coup getting a pro artist to work for you.

ISPYSHHHGUY · Post by **ISPYSHHHGUY** » 19 Sep 2011, 03:49

Looks like Wizzo is heading for the big time, attracting name cartoonists.

WizzKid97 · Post by **WizzKid97** » 19 Sep 2011, 07:27

felneymike wrote:Is it only "properly" sold at your school? Maybe one day you could collect together the finished issues in a "Wizzo annual" on a print-on-demand site like Lulu. I like the strips that can be read on deviantart anyway. Especially Imaginitive Imogen

No, it used to be sold in only our school but this issue we've found ourselves a publisher so we're going to have a comic available on the internet so anyone can buy it! We're going to have an eBook account and when you download the comics it costs you £1.50 or you can buy a printed glossy comic for £3.50.

Digifiend wrote:Wow. Quite a coup getting a pro artist to work for you.

I know! To think only months ago we were just a bunch of young kids making a comic, now everything's changing!

ISPYSHHHGUY wrote:Looks like Wizzo is heading for the big time, attracting name cartoonists.

Let's hope so, with lots of artists and even the brilliant Beano Editor, Mike Stirling; I reckon this year will change EVERYTHING!

Jay · Post by **Jay** » 19 Sep 2011, 13:00

Let us know when it's available to buy online and I'll order a nice glossy comic. Do love collecting 'small press' comics and fanzines.

WizzKid97 · Post by **WizzKid97** » 20 Sep 2011, 20:51

Jay wrote:Let us know when it's available to buy online and I'll order a nice glossy comic. Do love collecting 'small press' comics and fanzines.

Thank you Jay, I'll send the link when Issue 4 is done.

WizzKid97 · Post by **WizzKid97** » 24 Sep 2011, 14:04

SNEAK PEEK: Issue 4 Front Cover
http://wizzkid97.deviantart.com/#/d4arer7
(File too big!)

swirlythingy · Post by **swirlythingy** » 24 Sep 2011, 17:12

WizzKid97 wrote:http://wizzkid97.deviantart.com/#/d4arer7

I can never get these links to work - can you post the proper permalink, please? (It should be accessible by clicking the title on the deviation page, IIRC - i.e. not going through your gallery, or message centre, or anything else which does that stupid unnecessary zooming-in animation - and takes you straight to the relevant page without a delay while the Javascript redirects you. It doesn't have the character sequence "/#/" in it.)

On a similar note, I see a lot of Twitter links, even on supposedly professional websites, of the form "https://twitter.com/#!/username". That's what you get if you visit a page while logged into your Twitter account - not something everyone has, yet! The proper form is "http://twitter.com/username".

Digifiend · Post by **Digifiend** » 25 Sep 2011, 00:23

http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/ ... 4arer7.png
Is that bit at the bottom based on what the Dandy recently started doing?

STARBOY · Post by **STARBOY** » 25 Sep 2011, 10:39

I love success stories like this, folk that have a passion, talent , interest in something and go for it -these people are the future of comics in this country so well done amazing stuff.

swirlythingy · Post by **swirlythingy** » 25 Sep 2011, 12:48

Digifiend wrote:http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/ ... 4arer7.png

Now I know what to look for, this is the format I was thinking of:
http://wizzkid97.deviantart.com/art/The ... -259939699

WizzKid97 · Post by **WizzKid97** » 25 Sep 2011, 18:05

Digifiend wrote:http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/ ... 4arer7.png
Is that bit at the bottom based on what the Dandy recently started doing?

Yes, we liked the idea, besides, the Viz also uses the character bar at the bottom, seems to be quite popular. I know it may be copying but everything's copied from something at least.

STARBOY wrote:I love success stories like this, folk that have a passion, talent , interest in something and go for it -these people are the future of comics in this country so well done amazing stuff.

Wow! Thank you very much for the kind words!

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