Instructor Bio: David Follett

David Follett is a South Australian based Comic Creator with a passion for writing and drawing stories for all ages. His award winning science fiction graphic novel debut Uncle Silas: GENETIS (Dark Horse 2010) garnered terrific reviews and work on the epic sequel, Uncle Silas 2: EARTH set almost entirely in the South Australia’s Naracoorte Caves, is well under way and will appear on Patreon in serial form early in 2019.

David’s popular newspaper comic strips Harry the Dog - NewsHound and Kookabarry both ran in Sydney’s Sunday Telegraph for years and were nominated for several awards. Kookabarry also saw print in France’s immensely popular weekly comics anthology Le Journal de Mickey. David is also busy working on his YA fantasy adventure graphic novel Fia & Miguel, the first story of many to be set in the magic filled world of The Citadel.

When not creating comics, David is busy illustrating for editorial, advertising, packaging and publishing industries, and visualising for television commercials. David has storyboarded for animation shows Figaro Pho, Sherazade, Pacific Heat, Kitty Is Not A Cat and is currently storyboarding Monster Beach for Melbourne’s BES Animation.

WEBSITES and LINKS:

www.watermarkcreative.co

Instagram account: @davefollettdraws

Youtube book trailer for Uncle Silas: GENETIS.