The Illustrated Comic Strip and Norwich Magazine

When I first moved to Norwich I thought It'd be great to land a local design or illustration job and a few months after I moved here a great new independent magazine surfaced.

I planned to get in contact with them and see if they needed anything illustrating and then I saw an appeal for a comic strip. As soon as I saw this, I knew what I wanted to do.

Ever since I arrived in Norwich I keep seeing great newspaper headlines and I started to photograph them. I've gathered together quite a collection so I started posting them on facebook for my friends but then I saw the call for a comic strip and The Illustrated News Comic Strip was born.

I created three samples from some of my favourite headlines that I'd seen and sent them in. A few weeks went by and then the bad news ... they really liked my idea but they went with someone else. It was a bit of a blow but they suggest that I put my comic strip on my site – so here it is ... The Illustrated News Comic Strip No. 1

I'm planning to release one every week hopefully, at least I've got the first three under my belt. If you see any funny headlines that you think could undergo the Illustrated News treatment then take a photo and email them via the contact link at www.elhorno.co.uk and don't forget to put your name and the name of the newspaper it was taken from and i'll give you a mention.