Salford-based CPC sponsors Walking Dead artist

Education purchasing consortium Crescent Purchasing (CPC) has announced plans to back the artist behind one of the world’s most popular comic books.

Salford-based CPC will sponsor the Walking Dead artist Charlie Adlard for the next two years, following his appointment as the UK’s new Comics Laureate back in October.

The organisation, which will sponsor Charlie alongside Lancaster University, supports FE colleges, schools and academies.

CPC’s managing director, Peter Brewer, said: “I have a lifetime love of comics as a superb art form.

“Hearing of comics artist Charlie Adlard’s aim under his tenure of the new Comics Laureate, it struck an immediate chord with me as something which CPC could get involved with to support a worthwhile educational cause.”

He continued: “I also felt that this would be of great interest to many of our members particularly as they are his target audience.

“His position as a creator of something so popular as The Walking Dead as a comic and TV series also adds lots of additional interest and we are proud to be supporting such a fantastic project.”

The consortium was founded in 1999 and has been a not-for-profit charitable organisation since 2009, when it was bought by the FE sector.

As Comics Laureate, Charlie will work with schools, educators and the comics community to raise awareness of the impact that the medium can have on increasing literacy from school age right up to adult education.

Commenting on the sponsorship deal, the artist said: “It is fabulous that CPC will be working with us to demonstrate the power of comics to encourage learning and a passion for reading.”

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