'Box Land' Campaign Starts Humble Beginnings For Humble Creators

A new cultural start to the country begins with small starts, stops, regroupings, and deep spiritual resolve. Following these new budding growths forming on the underbrush that first springs up after something like a forest fire engulfs the country, we can see new life.

These things start in humble, often hard to see, places.

We, as a new news and culture publication that works to gather these stories of beginner creators, sometimes see this growth where others do not, and we have personal connections to some of these creators that others do not. In fact, so personal that my own daughter, Violet Croft, is one of these young creators.

The story is described as thus:

Box Land is the story of Tommy & Timmy and what happens when they fall into an empty glowing box!

Nice and succinct. Additionally, it is efficient and to-the-point, as a beginning author's first published story. It is a delicately hand-drawn book, limited to only 100 copies. After this, the young author will be working on other stories, such as Johnny Green in the Sea, The Bad Boys, Baby Band, Max & Monroe, and additional 'Tommy & Timmy sequels' (and their magical box)– or so she says.

Violet Croft, who is a twelve-year-old writer/illustrator working on Wacom tablets, printer paper, and Apple Notes, has been producing small unassuming characters and stories in the vein of Calvin & Hobbes and Spongebob Squarepants for about four years (since she could use a charcoal pencil). But more than that, she has an impeccable natural sense of character that she puts into her fun story-situations. I've seen her design an original character in minutes and frame it into a fun and charming story given an additional minute.

She never ceases to amaze– as she adds that extra flourish to her stories & characters effortlessly.

But these are not simply "good" stories with "good" characters– they are well made. About two years ago she told me of her "Wobbly Wob" universe or "Wobblie Wob World." They were small baby-like characters that lived in their own world, kind of like a "fairy land."

They appeared to be efficiently drawn, almost seeming to be "lazily done" at first, but then I looked closer. It was about maximizing the kind emotion in their faces. She took a clue from Calvin and Hobbes and Peanuts that emotional queues "are king" in comics– not difficulty of detail. Because even though Calvin was very skillfully done, if there was anything that trumped Bill Watterson's skill it was his effortless skill in emoting "pathotic" relatability through his characters at the right time– in the right way. The deep expressive humanity in it was of primary importance– and he was not wrong.

This story, Box Land, is replete with this kind of feeling– this charming simplicity.

This is why Box Land has become our first "partner" in our new Campaign section on Media Moses. We will be selling and promoting Box Land until the campaign is fulfilled & all the sales, complete.

We are also hoping to do an interview with 12-year-old Violet when possible for her to fit us into her busy schedule. In the meantime check out her campaign and her promotional book video below.

Please share the video and campaign, and consider getting Box Land this Christmas to fill out your journey out of Hollywood and into supporting small values-driven creators.

Buy Box Land below.

Violet Croft's First Book "Box Land"

Buy here

You can also go directly to the campaign page here.

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