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David Fickling Books will this September publish Jampires, a picture book based on a comic created during an “online jam session” by illustrators Sarah McIntyre and David O’Connell.
Unlike in normal author/illustrator partnerships, McIntyre and O’Connell together developed both the story and the artwork by sending ideas back and forth online. For the story, they worked together to create a narrative based on rhyming text, and for the artwork, O’Connell drew the pencil roughs and Sarah created the final pictures.
Publisher David Fickling said the pair have created a new classic. “People often talk about what a scary place the internet can be, but David and Sarah have explored its inspirational side to create what we believe will become a perennial classic,” he said.
In the story, the protagonist Sam is horrified when he realised that the doughnuts have been sucked dry of jam so he journeys to the land of the Jampires to try and find out what happened to the missing red stuff.
Some of the artwork and a blog about how the collaboration came about is available on the website www.jampires.com.
David Fickling will release Jampires (h/b, £10.99) on 4th September.