We are honoured to say that Yomi Ayeni, creator of Clockwork Watch is one of the guests featured on “Comics, Clouds and Kendal Mint Cake“, as part of The Lakes International Comic Art Festival, which is live online all weekend. Here he chats about collaborating with Kendal College to host a day long transmedia experience in Kendal.
The “Angel Corps Home Coming Parade” event hosted with the Lakes International Comic Art Festival, was one of the main highlights of last year. It gave us a chance to introduce an aspect of our story that had been lurking in the background for the past 8 years.
We initially had lofty ideas of how big this story was going to be, and mapped out things like live events, working with schools, AR functionality, even street parades. After chatting with friends, and struggling make the film, we shelved almost everything apart from the graphic novel.
Over the past few years, we have been invited to work with various events, organisation, people, and been given the opportunity to introduce a few of the abandoned story elements.
While we are two years away from introducing the first Angel Corps book, we brought the all female squadron to life while working with students of Kendal College, which has neatly set up their appearance in Sins of My Father, our next book.
It’s great having a chance to play the ‘art immitating life’ card.
Huzzah to Angel Corps!!!
Before Clockwork Watch became a massive graphic novel series, it was a humble film script that told the tale of a white man who fell in love with a black woman, in a world where such an affair was forbidden.
That woman embodied the future of humanity, the fate of an angry young Sikh boy, and the advancement of a practice called science.
The man is a scientist, the woman – an automaton. And this is the story of what happened next…
“Sins of My Father” is the 9th book in the series, and the first introduction to the main protagonists in the original feature length screenplay.
Work in progress by Jennie Gyllblad, edited by Corey Brotherson, written by Yomi Ayeni