Audio & Video
The origins of 'Lads'
Alan Bissett chats to presenter Nick Sheridan about how his book Lads came about.
- The origins of 'Lads'
- Introduction
- Genre
- The World
- Drawing out the secret character
- Character and story
- Stuff
- Obstacles
- Choices
- Summary
- Tom and Ross on starting to write and draw
- Manjeet’s writing process
- My Heart
- Questions from schools
- Chat with Comic Artist Tanya Roberts
- Tom on his illustrations
- Myths and Monsters
- Final thoughts
- Working with young writers
- The Great Storm Whale reading



















