Updated 4/15/2015
JURASCALS: THE CHARACTERS, CONCEPT AND COMIC STRIP
JURASCALS is a comic strip that really attempts to define "place", a specific location where the story is printed. This is what makes it unique from other comic strips.
Author/Artist: J. Timothy Quirk is a freelance artist living in New England. While teaching his children to read, J. Timothy created a series of books that accentuated "sight words" his daughter was learning in school. JURASCALS is based on that work. In November 2010, his weekly cartoon called Happy Central New York (Happy CNY) first appeared in the Skaneateles Journal and has been seen continuously in that weekly newspaper since! On April 11, 2011, the JURASCALS daily comic strip was "born" being published daily in the Auburn Citizen, the newspaper of record in Auburn, New York. On 11/12/2012, JURASCALS came to Nebraska-the McCook Daily Gazette!
In 2014, his comic strip The Crayon Diary came to Torrington, Connecticut. All comics continue to the present day!
Now Jurascals specifically
The comic strip is exclusively created by J. Timothy Quirk. Here's the article in the McCook Daily Gazette about the work! http://www.mccookgazette.com/story/1912872.html
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THE E-books
Now this started with Jurascals books. For the Jurascals free e-books that are found here and on SCRIBD:
Here are some other friends who contributed to the work
Creative Consultant: Carlo Dall'Olmo is screenwriter in Arizona. As a creative powerhouse in the southwest region, Carlo will bring jurascals to the next level. Check out what Carlo is doing at http://www.meetup.com/Phoenix-Screenwriters-Group
Educational Consultant: Maureen Manning is an educational consultant in Massachusetts. As an educator and adminstrator, Maureen will guide the educational components of the learning to read books. Maureen is presently the Coordinator of English Language Education for the Wareham Public Schools.
Publishers: Whistlepig Press. Check out the exciting work of whistlepig press at http://www.whistlepigpress.com/
Our Philosophy for these e-books:
We want to assist parents, caregivers and teachers by providing this website as a resource. It is not designed to be an all encompassing resource or any substitute for a school curriculum (even when the volume of books on this website increases). This website is meant to help a child read a book and enjoy the process of reading.
Our stories celebrate libraries, schools and local artists. In addition, all of us associated on this project have had the benefit of traveling across the United States and there are certain places that have touched our hearts. We want to celebrate those locations by depicting them in different stories.
If there is a particular library, school or town you have visited that touched your heart, please let us know about it!
-J Timothy Quirk
Terms and Conditions:
LIABILITY: User assumes all liability in the use of this website. Our website http://www.jurascals.com/ and its creators will not be held resonsible for any liability or damages from the use of this site including but not limited to viruses, malware, adware, or any other unwanted electronic transmission from this site.
PRIVACY: We will not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information unless you expressly provide it and you are over the age of 18. We will not knowingly collect any information on any user under the age of 18. We will not sell any information collected to any third party. We will not share any information collected to any third party other than law enforcement as required by law.
COMMENTS: We will not authorize any libelous, offensive, pornographic, racist, intolerant, or otherwise objectionable comments in the comments section of the blog. Do not post any links to any pornographic or graphically violent material. We do not monitor our website on a minute to minute real time basis. We will remove any objectionable comments when we are informed of it.
LINKS: Do not link to your site without the expressed written consent of http://www.jurascals.com/. You may email us at rascals@jurascals.com. Do not for any reason post or link to any pornographic or graphically violent website, material or image.
We reserve the right to delete any comment or bar any user for violatio00n of the terms of service.
Any disputes in this agreement is subject to the laws of Connecticut.
We created these books so that parents, teachers and children (with their parent's or teacher's permission of course) may read them, print them if you so choose and share them. With that in mind:
You can not sell the books or use any part of the books for commercial use without expressed written permission from the creators of jurascals. You may contact us at: rascals@jurascals.com Although there is an autoresponder, we will reply separately to the request.
You can not create derivative works especially for commercial use without expressed written permission from the creators of jurascals. You may contact us at: rascals@jurascals.com Although there is an autoresponder, we will reply separately to the request.
These books are not intended to be a replacement of school curriculum.
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Thank you and enjoy!
