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Dungeon Fun Front Cover &<br />
‘Hope from the Dirt’ Acrylic on Canvas,<br />
2008 © Neil Slorance<br />
‘D<br />
‘ ungeon Fun is brilliant, it has really cool<br />
drawings.’ Words shared by my<br />
13-year-old son on handing him the<br />
comic book by the artist Neil Slorance and<br />
writer Colin Bell. I had returned from an<br />
interview with Slorance at his studio and with<br />
my son’s love of the medium I presumed I<br />
victoriously stumbled across a volume that he<br />
might not have heard of. It seems not.<br />
‘Yeah I know those comics. I met [Slorance]<br />
at Glasgow Comic Con last year,’ he adds.<br />
This was the annual event at the Royal<br />
Concert Hall – a gathering of comic creators,<br />
artists, writers and their fans, set to return<br />
once again in June of 2018.<br />
This artist/writer collaboration unfolds in<br />
an award-winning series of four, full colour<br />
books. It centres on a female protagonist,<br />
‘a story of a girl and her sword,’ it begins –<br />
and a warrior crusade for justice. That girl<br />
is Fun Mudlifter, raised by trolls in the moat<br />
of a castle who on gathering a sword that<br />
plummeted from the sky adventures beyond<br />
the moat for the first time. It’s a ‘coming of
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