About Neill Cameron

Neill Cameron is a cartoonist and writer, creator of the graphic novel series Mega Robo Bros and Donut Squad, the Freddy VS School illustrated novels, and frequent contributor to weekly children’s comic The Phoenix. In 2016 Mega Robo Bros and Tamsin and the Deep were both shortlisted for the British Comics Awards. In 2017, Mega Robo Bros won the Excelsior Award Jr, a national comic award voted for by school and library reading groups across the UK. In 2018 Mega Robo Bros was chosen as one of the best children’s comics of the year by both the New York Public Library and the Schools Library Journal.

Neill is a former artist-in-residence at The Story Museum in Oxford, where he contributed several large-scale comic strip installations and continues to be involved in comics-based education and activities, including curating the exhibition KABOOM: The Art of Creating Comics in 2023, and running a monthly Comics Club group for young cartoonists.

Neill frequently travels the country giving workshops in schools, libraries and at festivals, and is a passionate advocate for the role comics can play in developing literacy skills and encouraging children’s creativity.

About Donut Squad: Make A Mess

The bagels are lying low, and now the Donut Squad are enjoying making their own malarkey. They’re off camping! And hiding from bears! Anxiety Donut is on an adventure where what happens next is up to YOU! And L’il Timmy learns the Meaning of Life – so you can too! But the bagels can’t be held back for long – their plan is about to be unleashed to kick the Donut Squad out of their own book. Will the Donuts be able to stop them?

The sweet vs savoury royal rumble is back on – and it’s going to get messy! The only thing guaranteed is that it will be gleefully hilarious!

Donut Squad signing with Neill Cameron