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Alan Grant's 'Moniaive Fights Back' Comic on BBC's The One Show

Alan Grant, writer on Judge Dredd and Batman, has just appeared on BBC One's early evening magazine TV show, The One Show, to promote a very local comic book indeed. Entitled Monaieve Fights Back, it's about Monaieve, the small Scottish village he lives in fighting back against the coronavirus and coping with shutdown. The BBC went down the stereotypical POW, BAM, KAPOW route, but the examples of work on display was from a more diverse influence and created by around sixty of the villagers themselves, – telling the story of how the "amazing wee village" has pulled together at a time of crisis.

The comic is being sold to help generate funds for Revitalise Moniaive, set up to sustain businesses and boost the village's economy, originally during the Foot And Mouth Outbreak but now revived for the current shutdown, including a Moniaive Comic Festival, the most local international comic book convention ever.

Costing £3 each plus postage, and printed within the town, they have sold out of the first 250 issue print run and are going for a second. As well as local amateurs, Grant pulled in some proper comic book artists as well.

The show interviewed local traders such as the grocer and fish and chip shop, filming them in a 60s Batman superhero style and with 'super-speed' doing their jobs, delivering around the village and keeping things going, as well as kids and families who had been drawing up a storm for the comic book. Here's a little look at the show.

Moniaive Fights Back costs £4 including postage within the UK. Email revitalise.moniaive@gmail.com to get a copy, or to enquire about international shipping. After the big BBC plug, it may be harder to find and you may want to get in sooner rather than later.

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