


The winner will have their comic strip published in Storytime, a fantastic book bundle, a signed copy of the ‘Laika’ graphic novel and a printed winners’ certificate. When you have completed the activities in this pack, draw your masterpiece on the entry form at the back and send it to us. His creations include the graphic novels Laika and Hugo Tate and the Pleebus Planet comics for kids.

Nick Abadzis is an award-winning comics artist and writer. This year we have a special guest judge helping us to pick the winner. Tips and shows you how to come up with a story, sketch characters and a setting, giving them feelings and even add speech bubbles. To get you started we’ve put together a Create a Comic! Activity Pack – which is a complete comics-creation class! It’s filled with amazing The story shows readers how Laika was taken from being a stray dog on the steets, and became the first living creature to be launched into space. We are proud to announce a new Storytime contest! We want our readers to create their very own comic strip, about your favourite funny animal and their adventures. It's a graphic novel, a historical fiction about Laika (Kudryavka), a dog that was in the soviet space program back in the 1950s. Create your very own comic strip – and get published in Storytime!
