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Metaphrog are graphic novelists Sandra Marrs and John Chalmers, best known for making the ''Louis'' series of comics. ==History== Marrs is originally from France, where she studied art. Chalmers is from the west of Scotland and has a scientific background with a PhD in Electronic and Electrical Engineering in Micromachining. Together they live in Glasgow. In general, Marrs draws the comics while Chalmers writes the scripts. They started their first comic together, ''Strange Weather Lately'', in 1995. ''The Sunday Herald'' in Glasgow described ''Strange Weather Lately'' as "the existential adventures of Martin Nitram, an unpaid theatre worker engaged in an attempt to mount a cursed play, The Crimes Of Tarquin J Swaffe." The Strange Weather Lately comics ran for 10 issues until 1999, and were then collected into two graphic novels. They then moved on to the ''Louis (graphic novel)'' series, which includes ''Louis - Red Letter Day'', ''Louis - Lying To Clive'', ''Louis - The Clown's Last Words'', ''Louis - Dreams Never Die'' and ''Louis - Night Salad''. In 2011, they redrew and repainted ''Louis - Red Letter Day'' and this new version was published in hardback. Louis is, according to ''The Herald'', "the thoughtful, sensitive, baby-faced protagonist of their cult-hit comic books. He's a lovely little thing - pudgy arms, round tummy, two hug-me eyes popping out of his smooth egg-shell head. Children love him, and you just know he could sell in his millions. Easy."(Wild, September 18, 2004, "Punks of publishing; Their comic books have become cult hits". ''The Herald (Glasgow)'', p. 3. ). ''The Washington Times'' wrote of ''Louis - The Clown's Last Words'', "the bizarre storytellers chronicle the complicated adventures of a Caillou-looking character, and readers should expect more surreal shenanigans than they can shake a brick of Cheddar at. ... This bulbous-headed Gumby for the 21st century should appeal to the most unassuming of children and cynical of adults."(Szadkowski, August 17, 2002, "Books that give color to mankind's darker side". ''The Washington Times'', p. B2.). ''Louis - Red Letter Day'' and ''Louis - Lying to Clive'' were also each published as a webcomic on serializer. Metaphrog were part of a collection of 80 artists from three continents to express their "visions and thoughts on the oft forgotten aspects War" for the book ''Warburger'' published by Stripburger in 2003. Metaphrog teamed up with the UK based record label Fat Cat Records in 2004 to create Louis - Dreams Never Die. For this, musicians hey (from Berlin) and múm (from Iceland) reworked a music track inspired by the Louis books, and Metaphrog made a special short animation. The result was a multimedia project with a graphic novel and cd/blue vinyl 7". Metaphrog have been commissioned to work on several projects, including an adaptation of the poem The First Men on Mercury by ''Edwin Morgan (poet)'' in comic form. On National Poetry Day 2009, 35000 copies of the pamphlet published by the ''Association for Scottish Literary Studies''were distributed to all Glasgow Secondary Schools. Other commissioned works include: ''Skint!'' for the Scottish Book Trust in 2010 and, in revised form, in 2014; The Photographs for Glasgow Life and Time to Shine: graphic novel for Creative Scotland in 2013. Their next graphic novel will be published by Papercutz in 2015. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Metaphrog」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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