Strange Weather Lately
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Strange Weather Lately is the title of a series of comics
created and released between 1996 and 1999 by the Glasgow-based Franco-Scottish duo Metaphrog
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The very first issue was entitled Strange Weather Lately - Martin Nitram #1 and comprised a series of short comic stories along with a hand-numbered print, released in 1996. It was followed by a longer story, beginning in Strange Weather Lately #2 and continuing in a series of ten cult comics
published bimonthly until 1999 when the collected story was released in two graphic novels. Metaphrog used creative marketing to promote the releases of their books and comics, creating Strange Weather Lately cans of beans and tea bags as well as posters, bookmarks and flyers.
The Sunday Herald in Glasgow described Strange Weather Lately as "the existential adventures of Martin Nitram, an unpaid theatre worker engaged in an attempt to mount a cursed play, The Crimes Of Tarquin J Swaffe."
Strange Weather Lately was the first ever graphic novel
to appear at the Edinburgh International Book Festival
.
Metaphrog
have gone on to produce the popular and critically acclaimed Louis (graphic novel)
series.
Comics
Comics denotes a hybrid medium having verbal side of its vocabulary tightly tied to its visual side in order to convey narrative or information only, the latter in case of non-fiction comics, seeking synergy by using both visual and verbal side in...
created and released between 1996 and 1999 by the Glasgow-based Franco-Scottish duo Metaphrog
Metaphrog
Metaphrog are comics creators Sandra Marrs and John Chalmers, best known for making the Louis series of comics.-History:Marrs is originally from France, where she studied art. Chalmers is from the west of Scotland and has a scientific background with a PhD in Micromachining. They live in Glasgow.In...
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The very first issue was entitled Strange Weather Lately - Martin Nitram #1 and comprised a series of short comic stories along with a hand-numbered print, released in 1996. It was followed by a longer story, beginning in Strange Weather Lately #2 and continuing in a series of ten cult comics
Comics
Comics denotes a hybrid medium having verbal side of its vocabulary tightly tied to its visual side in order to convey narrative or information only, the latter in case of non-fiction comics, seeking synergy by using both visual and verbal side in...
published bimonthly until 1999 when the collected story was released in two graphic novels. Metaphrog used creative marketing to promote the releases of their books and comics, creating Strange Weather Lately cans of beans and tea bags as well as posters, bookmarks and flyers.
The Sunday Herald in Glasgow described Strange Weather Lately as "the existential adventures of Martin Nitram, an unpaid theatre worker engaged in an attempt to mount a cursed play, The Crimes Of Tarquin J Swaffe."
Strange Weather Lately was the first ever graphic novel
Graphic novel
A graphic novel is a narrative work in which the story is conveyed to the reader using sequential art in either an experimental design or in a traditional comics format...
to appear at the Edinburgh International Book Festival
Edinburgh International Book Festival
The Edinburgh International Book Festival, is a book festival that takes place in the last three weeks of August every year in Charlotte Square, in the centre of Edinburgh, Scotland’s capital...
.
Metaphrog
Metaphrog
Metaphrog are comics creators Sandra Marrs and John Chalmers, best known for making the Louis series of comics.-History:Marrs is originally from France, where she studied art. Chalmers is from the west of Scotland and has a scientific background with a PhD in Micromachining. They live in Glasgow.In...
have gone on to produce the popular and critically acclaimed Louis (graphic novel)
Louis (graphic novel)
Louis is a graphic novel series created by metaphrog, the Franco-Scottish duo Sandra Marrs and John Chalmers.-Series overview:Louis is an unasumming worker who lives in Hamlet with his companion FC , his pet mechanical bird. He spends his days filling bottles with air, making fruit, and writing to...
series.