Simon Jowett

A Practical Guide to Writing Comics

I love comics. I love writing comics. And when, in 2019, I taught a course on writing comics and graphic novels, I discovered that I loved teaching people how to write them. That’s why I created A Practical Guide to Writing Comics, which is now available on Skillshare. A

Children's TV

Cbeebies is 20?!?

Speaking as a parent, CBeebies is a national treasure. As a writer, it was a delight to work on the gently bonkers Balamory, to write sketches for pre-school superstar (to children and parents) Justin Fletcher and to write a rare groove for the totally crucial Rastamouse. ‘Absolutely breathtaking TV’: 20

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On Her Majesty’s Secret Podcast

Something else for the Bond obsessives: I can be found bloviating about my work on Bond and about Bond in general on this episode of On Her Majesty’s Secret Podcast, available at https://bit.ly/2Y9iyW8 or wherever you download your favourite podcasts.

comics

Bond's Lost Adventures...

Out now! For the Bond obsessive in your life. Packed with fascinating detail about the Bonds that might have been. Including my contributions to the Bond comics canon - published, not published and cut off in their prime.

Animation

'Quality content...'

It’s official: Shane the Chef is ‘quality content’! Just ask the Guardian: https://bit.ly/38hgkWZ

Shane goes west!

Hoho Rights, the commercial arm of kids’ production company Hoho Entertainment, has secured deals with three major U.S. on-demand kids platforms, Kartoon Channel!, Sensical and Toon Goggles… “Toon Goggles, the most widely distributed kids OTT service available globally, has taken on “Shane the Chef”…

Games Writing

Halcyon Sun

There are projects that, regardless of the amount of time and work that you put into them, end up unpublished, unbroadcast or, as in the case of Halycon Sun, partially-published, then lost in the backwash of a dot-com bubble. Or so I thought, until my former co-conspirator, writer/translator/anime

Animation

When Shane was... Jeff

Clearing out a dark corner of the office, I was very surprised to find a folder stuffed with a dog-eared copy of the first draft of the first script of what was to become Shane the Chef, along with print-outs of some very early character sketches by my co-creator, Andrew

Let's get cooking... with the #EasyRecipeasy Children’s Challenge

Shane the Chef is supporting the #EasyRecipeasy Children’s Challenge from Too Good To Go, which encourages children to create recipes to cut down on food waste. Details can be found at: https://bit.ly/3iflLsS

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...007

It’s a funny thing, but a year doesn’t go by without someone reaching out to ask questions about my James Bond comics…

Writing Comics and Original Graphic Novels...

Every Monday evening, for the last six weeks, I’ve had the pleasure and privilege of teaching a course in Writing Comics and Original Graphic Novels at Clean Prose (https://cleanprose.co.uk), London’s first dedicated co-working space for writers. The participants were uniformly smart, creative and,

Animation

It's an honour just to be nominated...

Shane the Chef has been nominated for the Best Pre-School Show Award in the Broadcast Awards 2020!

Animation

Dave the Snail...

… is ready for his close-up in more new episodes of Shane the Chef this week!

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Unwrapped ... new episodes!

New episodes of Shane the Chef will be debuting on Channel 5 all this week… and next!

Coming soon... new Shane the Chef!

Got a sneaky peek at some new Shane The Chef episodes (coming soon!) Harriet Lamb and Harriet Perring knock it out of the park as Izzy and Honey organise a food festival!

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Now Showing... Shane in the wild!

Shane the Chef can be seen on billboards around the country. This one was in Cradiff, showing clips from one of my winter episodes… brr! 0:00/1×

Shane the Chef

now showing... Shane the Chef at Christmas!

It was a close-run thing, but I’m delighted that the winter episodes of Shane the Chef (written by Yours Truly) made it onto screens in time for Christmas… with showings on Christmas Eve and the Big Day itself!

Now showing... Shane the Chef!

It lives! Shane the Chef (co-created with Andrew Wildman) debuted on C5’s milkshake this morning. If 7.20am on a Bank Holiday was too early for you, you can catch him same time, same place tomorrow and for the rest of the week.

"Created by Andrew Wildman and Simon Jowett..."

“… Shane the Chef aims to enthuse young children and carers with a love of fresh, healthy food and cooking. It is the first ever animated UK commission to focus on healthy eating for kids.” And now it has a transmission date! First episode airs on C5’

CBBC is 30!

Very proud to have been a (very small) part of CBBC’s 30 years of quality kids’ TV. Here’s to 30 more! In honour of CBBC’s anniversary, a very small clip from one of my favourite jobs: Bear Behaving Badly!

Coming soon… Shane the Chef

Channel 5 goes public about Shane the Chef, by me and comics auteur and storyboarding maestro Andrew Wildman. Coming Spring 2017.

Thunderbirds are go!

Thunderbirds are on their way back to the small screen, which reminds me… About a million years ago, I worked on a Thunderbirds computer game (sadly unreleased due to hissy fits between rights holders) that reunited almost the entire original voice cast. And when the magnificent David Graham (aka

This year has been brought to you by...

… the letters N(on) D(isclosure) and A(greement). As I deliver the final elements of my latest commission of development materials (Format Document. Series bible. Pilot script).

now showing...

The Enlightenment of Ly-Chee the Wise can now be found nestled among the work of far better-known comics talents than I in the latest collection of strips from Dr Who Monthly. The collection also reprints the five page Who strips commissioned for the short-lived anthology Incredible Hulk Presents, where Ly-Chee

About a million years ago...

...my first professional sale was a Dr Who strip, The Enlightenment of Ly-Chee the Wise. Asked about it in a recent interview, I replied: “My Doctors were the Third and Fourth and by the time I wrote The Enlightenment of Ly-Chee The Wise, I had fallen out of touch