Edwin Morgan’s science fiction poem as a comic strip
Voyage into outer space with this fun adaptation of Edwin Morgan’s science fiction poem The First Men on Mercury, first published in 1973, produced here by Glasgow-based designers Metaphrog and educational charity ASLS.
This comic adaptation of Edwin Morgan’s The First Men on Mercury, by Glasgow-based design duo Metaphrog, was commissioned as part of an ASLS initiative to mark National Poetry Day in 2009. A learning and teaching resource for Scottish schools, it is reproduced here with kind permission.
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