Issue 4 July 2017

Lego with its almost boundless possibilities was the main theme of Zine Club Spring/Summer 2017. We designed our own minifigures – those 4cm tall characters with hooks for hands and pegs for legs. Like Bad Cop from The Lego Movie they don’t all have permanent grins. Queen Vicky is most definitely not amused on the cover of this edition of The Hoot. Queen Vicky features in our flash fiction. This is a very short story made up by members of Zine Club working together as a group. The story was based on the minifigures which we had created, including the heroes, ninja Lavane and faithful Ligtning Dog. Members had a chance to use iPads to make a Lego movie poster and we also tried out the four-panel gag strip. We designed rockets and added our own magic to a comic strip about a young wizard. Featured in this magazine is the incredible work of Kate Miller’s Art Club whose inspirations range from the Spanish artist Salvador Dali to the American writer and illustrator Maurice Sendak. As always thanks go to Mr Woodley for the time he gives and to all members, for their enthusiasm, ideas and creativity.

Tamzin

Zine ClubOur theme was Lego

Editor’s Letter

Electro-Baby

You are a brick!Did you know?

1. Lego was invented in Denmark – famous for Vikings2. Lego means ‘play well’ in Danish3. The Lego brick was invented by carpenter Ole Kirk Christiansen4. The Lego system was launched in 19585. Six 8-stud Lego bricks can be combined 915,103,765 ways6. Lego’s production plant makes 120 million bricks a day7. The Lego Batman Movie was more popular than Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

Random Baby (left) and Awesome Guy (right)

Flower Girl Mrs Teddy Cuddles

Party Girl Megahurtz

HOCUS POCUS We had fun with the classic four-panel gag strip and our own interpretations of what happens next when Andrew the young wizard waves his magic wand.

‘And the walls became the world all around’Art Club did these wonderful pictures inspired by the disorderly creatures from Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are. As Max the king declares: ‘Let the wild rumpus start!’

Lavane and Lightening Dog dug a hole in the ground to make a trap. They lured The Party Pooper onto the trap by pretending there was cake there.

The Party Pooper fell into the hole which had become a bottomless pit inhabited by vipers. This was the end of The Party Pooper. All the other characters enjoyed the Jubilee celebrations.

The End(This piece of flash fiction was created by Zine Club working as a group).

The Palace Party

Once upon a Lego story, Lavane and Lightning Dog were invited to Queen Vicky’s 1000th Jubilee party.

Control and Mrs Teddy Cuddles told the queen that The Party Pooper was destroying the Summer Palace. Then there was a knock at the queen’s door and The Party Pooper was standing before her. ‘Why didn’t you invite me?’ asked The Party Pooper.

Queen Vicky was so shocked that she fainted and was taken to Lego hospital.

Lavane and Lightning Dog The Party Pooper

The Real Mayor Control

Super RealArt Club learnt about the unusual world of artist Salvador Dali. He was a Surrealist artist who painted things from his imagination and created things that can’t possibly exist in reality. Art Club members did these amazingly imaginative two-sided self portraits with soft, melting faces.

Two Zine Club members were inspired to create their own brilliant comics at home. One member based her colourful comic on Lego Ninjago with an awesome picture of Sensei Wu on the cover. She thought about the contents and the synopsis of ‘what happened last time’ before writing her story about Kai, Lloyd and Jay. She illustrated her epic story with stickers. Go Ninja Go!

Creation Station Another Zine Club memberdesigned Peanuts the Second, based on Charles M. Schultz’s Peanuts strip. The comic is broken into clear panels and features the story of what happens when Charlie Brown misses football training. He made great use of speech bubbles and colour in this fantastic story. As Charlie Brown says: ‘There is no heavier burden than a great potential!’

Make your own poster at sigfigcreator.thelegomovie.com

Zine Club designed their own movie mini-figures complete with accessories and backdrop for a Lego Movie poster.

Happy Holidays!