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The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery
19 April – 29 June 2008

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The Sentinel REVIEW 18 April 2008 - PDF
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MAY UN MAR LADY Chapter 7 of a 20-minute archive footage documentary of Dave talking about his cartooning career featuring, how he started cartooning, New York Cartoonists, The Strike, 'May un Mar Lady' and the Creature feature and other life changing events. Featuring archive radio recording of Dave Follows interviewed by Franchesco Williams, with kind permission of BBC radio Stoke

'May un Mar Lady' animation test - Dave's son Chris is working on developing his fathers 'May un Mar Lady' (18 years daily strip) cartoons into an animated cartoon in collaboration with the currently running 'Three decades of Cartooning exhibition' at the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery Stoke UK (see more at davefollows.com) this clip is the early storyboard stages of the animation, the original cartoons have been voiced over by Joan Dobson and Charles Plant.

Hungry Hamsters (HH) - a new comedy animation series of 26 x half hour
programmes which aims to take the multimedia stage by storm.Created by Nicholas Sercombe, Dave Follows and Krogh Mortensen Animation.HH brings together the finest talent from the world of comedy acting, writing and CGI animation, featuring a star principal cast, with voices from Brian Blessed, Jack Davenport, Alice Cooper, Pam Ferris and Harry Hill, and is being written by acclaimed comedy writing duo Paul Minett and Brian Leveson.HH is targeted at a family audience. It is not just for children.

CREATURE FEATURE Chapter 8 of a 20-minute archive footage documentary of Dave talking about his cartooning career featuring, how he started cartooning, New York Cartoonists, The Strike, 'May un Mar Lady' and the Creature feature and other life changing events.

Featuring archive radio recording of Dave Follows interviewed by Franchesco Williams, with kind permission of BBC radio Stoke.

'May un Mar Lady' animation test - Dave's son Chris is working on developing his fathers 'May un Mar Lady' (18 years daily strip) cartoons into an animated cartoon in collaboration with the currently running 'Three decades of Cartooning exhibition' at the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery Stoke UK (see more at davefollows.com) this clip is the first of several to be uploaded over the next few months. The animations will also be shown in the gallery along side the original cartoons. Voices by Joan Dobson and Charles Plant.

The Cartoonist Club of Great Britain came to visit the Dave Follows exhibition in Stoke.Dave was a very popular member of the club and enjoyed the social aspects of the club.

Many thanks to all those Cartoonists who visited on the
17th May 2008 it was such an enjoyable weekend!

Being a cartoonist! - Chapter 2 - 'The Proper Job' of a 20-minute archive footage documentary of Dave talking about his cartooning career

Being a cartoonist! - Chapter 3 - The First Cartoons

Being a cartoonist! - Chapter 4 - 'Factory to Cartoonist'

Being a cartoonist! - Chapter 5 - New York

Being a cartoonist! - Chapter 6 - The Strike

 

VIDEO of the opening 17 April 2008 by the Sentinel

HOW IT ALL STARTED Chapter 1 of a 20-minute archive footage documentary of Dave talking about his cartooning career featuring, how he started cartooning, New York Cartoonists, The Strike, 'May un Mar Lady' and the Creature feature and other life changing events. Featuring archive radio recording of Dave Follows interviewed by Franchesco Williams, with kind permission of BBC radio Stoke.