Doctor Simpo
MA work
MA work
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Doctor Simpo
Doctor Simpo is a practising comic book artist, illustrator and animator. His work transcends the canyons between the fine art and commercial art worlds and is presented in a variety of forms that encompass bronze sculptures, interactive installations and moving image. He also has his own publishing house appropriately named Trashcan Press with a comics wing called Constipated Comics. He has a variety of different comic characters: Space Dork; Swampy Beastlies; Pyjama Pirates; Family of the Apocalypse; Werefunnies and many more, that appear in his own signature comic entitled Things and Stuff Comics “For People of all Different Shapes and Sizes!”
Info
Info
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MA Degree
School
School of Communication
Programme
MA Animation, 2007
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Contact
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07952 656008
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Doctor Simpo is a practising comic book artist, illustrator and animator. His work transcends the canyons between the fine art and commercial art worlds and is presented in a variety of forms that encompass bronze sculptures, interactive installations and moving image. He also has his own publishing house appropriately named Trashcan Press with a comics wing called Constipated Comics. He has a variety of different comic characters: Space Dork; Swampy Beastlies; Pyjama Pirates; Family of the Apocalypse; Werefunnies and many more, that appear in his own signature comic entitled Things and Stuff Comics “For People of all Different Shapes and Sizes!”
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Experience
- Chief Artistic Consultant on the first ever 3D Scottish Comic Book, East Ayrshire Council, Kilmarnock, Scotland, 2006-7; Comic Book Workshop Leader, Consultant, Artist and Editor, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, 2006; Animation Director and Storyboard Artist on Cool or Fool Educational Animated Film, Kilmarnock College, Kilmarnock, 2004-5
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Exhibitions
- Space Dork in the Planet of Foul Fools, Fumetto, International Comix Festival, Luzern, Switzerland, 2007; God's Own Barmy Army, 10th International Children's Film Festival, New York, 2007; MENSHIES (3D Comic Book), The Dick Institute, Kilmarnock, 2007