‘Bob the Builder’ Designer, ‘Wereworld’ Author Visits SJC
On tour for his young-adult series, Curtis Jobling dropped by St. John of the Cross on Thursday to talk animation and fantasy, give a reading and, of course, sketch Bob and friends.
If the words “Bob the Builder” bring any image to mind, it’s likely an image sprung from the mind and pen of Curtis Jobling. “Everything you see on Bob from day one, I designed it,” he told a group of St. John of the Cross Parish School fifth-graders Thursday in a fast-talking, oft-irreverent book-tour appearance. “Everything that Bob has to interact with—it could be a book, a spade, a hand grenade. If we need it, I draw it, we build it and we animate it.” If a hand-grenade episode exists, it's apparently been lost to history, though Jobling did screen his Nickelodeon UK “Curious Cow” shorts as Chuck Jones-style kid-friendly black comedy. He also discussed different types of animation, showed a trailer for his new show Raa Raa the Noisy …
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Darren McRoy
6:32 pm on Tuesday, January 22, 2013
That's actually a basket that had Wereworld-themed buttons. :-) more ›