WORMWORKS--Art, book, and mischief websites by Ted Dewan, featuring Ted Dewan and Helen Cooper

update APRIL 2006

HELEN COOPER
Author/illustrator

books and amazon links, commercial artwork, biographies, photos for press and web, background info, resources for students, teachers, librarians

My London Literary Agent for children's book work and TV/film. The link will open your email program. This does not lead to a website.

(44) (0)20-7727-1346

My colour picture book art dealer based in London, run by the spellbinding John Huddy.

Bristol-based art dealer and heat-seeking missile Linda Owen-Lloyd is my fiction artwork dealer (usually B+W)

Jan and Ellie Powling's UK-based agency for booking my school visits

For a modest fee, Speaking of Books offers expert author/school matchmaking for school visits. Highly recommended and totally worth the commission.

London 020-8692-4704

Illustrator and cartoonist's own site with terrific links to animation and well selected art and music sites. Kellie is soon to release his first picture book for children, Sadie the Pilot, with David Fickling Books.

Prolific illustrator and "Public Energy Number 1", Korky Paul has one of the most comprehensive illustrator's websites in Britain. He also lives a couple of blocks away from Helen and I in Oxford, which is why we hardly see him these days.

Comics artist/writer, futurist, champion of sequential art, creator of Zot, Understanding Comics, and Reinventing Comics. His website is an extension of his crusade, and serves as a laboratory for exploring new techniques in online comics. Scott and I grew up together "wasting" many sunny summer days inside drawing.

Philip is author of the His Dark Materials, The Scarecrow and His Servant, Clockwork, The Firework Maker's Daughter, and a host of other remarkable modern fairy tales. He is also a campaigner against tyrrany and stupidity in all manners educational and political. And he gave me his shed to keep so long as I do creative work in it and promise to pass it on to another person to create stuff in it when I'm done with it.

Distressingly apt polymath, rapidly and justifiably lionized author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime

Aidan Potts, aka Professor Potts, is the creator of the comic strip Look What You've Said which appears regularly in the Times Educational Supplement. He created the animated wormworks webworms and is soon to release his first book for children, You Neversaurus.


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"ONE OF THE BEST AUTHOR SITES AROUND" THE GUARDIAN		update APRIL 2006
	TED DEWAN Author/illustrator books and amazon links, commercial artwork, biographies, photos for press and web, background info, resources for students, teachers, librarians.	HELEN COOPER Author/illustrator books and amazon links, commercial artwork, biographies, photos for press and web, background info, resources for students, teachers, librarians

Buddy The Value Dog The world's first product-free money-free brand. Buddy stands for one thing and one thing only: GOOD VALUE. Buddy has recently been commissioned for corporate presentations and newspaper reviews of graphic novels and comix.	Cyclemas.org I designed and built Oxford's first 'artists tree' for Christmas with a half-dozen other people, commissioned by Oxford City Council and Modern Art Oxford. It stood 6 metres tall and was constructed using 40 derelict bicycles. A strange and wonderful story.	Bingbunny.com Bing is a toddler book character designed NOT to depress mum and dad. He is very much a real-life in-your-face toddler, learning about life by trial and error, thrilled with his achievements and crushed by his failures. Bingbunny.com is growing into a hotspot for mums and dads who email every week professing their love for Bing and his companion, Flop.	Roadwitch.org.uk The Road-Witch Trial is a series of experiments focused on creative ways to use roads as enjoyable public living spaces rather than just government enforced traffic conduits. The Oxford street 'happenings' featured on this site demonstrate how easy it is to repurpose road space, calm traffic, build community spirit, have fun, and get press, all at the same time.

AGENTS AND ART DEALERS FOR TED DEWAN
Hilary Delamere My London Literary Agent for children's book work and TV/film. The link will open your email program. This does not lead to a website. (44) (0)20-7727-1346	Illustration Cupboard Contemporary British children's illustrations My colour picture book art dealer based in London, run by the spellbinding John Huddy.	Contemporary British children's illustrations Bristol-based art dealer and heat-seeking missile Linda Owen-Lloyd is my fiction artwork dealer (usually B+W)	Speaking of Books Jan and Ellie Powling's UK-based agency for booking my school visits For a modest fee, Speaking of Books offers expert author/school matchmaking for school visits. Highly recommended and totally worth the commission. London 020-8692-4704

WRITERS, ILLUSTRATORS, AND MUSICIANS: FRIENDS, HERO-FRIENDS, FRIENDLY HEROES, AND THE PEOPLE I CANT SEEM TO GET AWAY FROM.
Kellie Strom Illustrator and cartoonist's own site with terrific links to animation and well selected art and music sites. Kellie is soon to release his first picture book for children, Sadie the Pilot, with David Fickling Books.	Korky Paul Prolific illustrator and "Public Energy Number 1", Korky Paul has one of the most comprehensive illustrator's websites in Britain. He also lives a couple of blocks away from Helen and I in Oxford, which is why we hardly see him these days.	Scott McCloud Comics artist/writer, futurist, champion of sequential art, creator of Zot, Understanding Comics, and Reinventing Comics. His website is an extension of his crusade, and serves as a laboratory for exploring new techniques in online comics. Scott and I grew up together "wasting" many sunny summer days inside drawing.	Philip Pullman Philip is author of the His Dark Materials, The Scarecrow and His Servant, Clockwork, The Firework Maker's Daughter, and a host of other remarkable modern fairy tales. He is also a campaigner against tyrrany and stupidity in all manners educational and political. And he gave me his shed to keep so long as I do creative work in it and promise to pass it on to another person to create stuff in it when I'm done with it.

Lucinda Rogers Britain's finest locations artist/illustrator, a tireless eye who probes deep into the corners of London and New York. Originally best known by her drawings for 'The Weasel' column in The Independent years ago, but has since moved onto far greater things.	Rock School Comics, animation, and "lessons" centering around an ill-fated band perpetually on the rock-y road to rock-cess. Created by Crispin Wood, formerly guitarist of Boston band, The Bags, and second most longest-lasting pal from Lexington, Mass.	Mark Haddon Distressingly apt polymath, rapidly and justifiably lionized author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime	Aidan Potts Aidan Potts, aka Professor Potts, is the creator of the comic strip Look What You've Said which appears regularly in the Times Educational Supplement. He created the animated wormworks webworms and is soon to release his first book for children, You Neversaurus.

David Yazbek Remarkable NYC-based songwriter and fearsome keyboardist with three outstanding albums to his name (Laughing Man, Tock, and Damascus). He has also written the music and lyrics for the hit American musical versions of The Full Monty and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.	Sean Altman Former frontman of Rockapella, the house band for the TV show, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? Now a New York-based singer/MC at large, and a swell pop songwriter, in the style of Brit powerpop at its very best. Some-time collaborator with Yazbek. A real star.	Raymond Scott The official website of the late composer. It features concert and historical info and CD releases. Perhaps one of the most inventive composers to come out of the USA, but usually known only by a few novelty jazz numbers that were appropriated for Warner Brother's Cartoon soundtracks.	Joel Martin Kohn ahhah.com Joel Kohn is one of the most original and exciting songwriters in the world. You probably wont have heard of him, as it may take the rest of the world a few more decades to catch up with him. He sells tapes of his educational songs through his website such as "Computer Kids Sing" and "Trader Kids Sing". Encourage Joel to release his unpublished songs, especially those done at McColl Studio.

Don Cadoret Don trained to be a jock (Springfield College) and ended up an artist. One day, he packed in his job as a local newspaper photographer to devote all his time (he never seems to sleep) to his passion for folk painting. His artwork is both cosy and deeply creepy. We collect more of Don's work than any other artist, largely because he keeps giving me paintings! Or at least he used to until he found out I was hanging them in the loo.