COMICS are everywhere. From films to reboots and new independent stories, the literary form is more dominant than ever.

And they're part of the library at Knightswood Secondary so the school teamed up with the Scottish Book Trust (SBT) to give 20 young people the chance to learn about creating their own.

The trust's live literature programme helped them welcome Adam Murphy, Glasgow-based author of the CorpseTalk and Lost Tales comics.

He explained how he starts with characters in a "normal" situation before something surprising happens to them, asking the pupils to start sketching a four-panel story in a matter of minutes.

"Kids with lots of ideas have something to hang it on," he said. "It gets them to slow down, how to plan the drawings and how they're going to work.

"I'm trying to get them to step outside what they already read, finding random ideas and listening and seeing which ones have something interesting about them. That's been very valuable to me."

Art teacher Ian Gallacher said comics are a great way to introduce pupils to the fundamentals of art.

He said: "Quite a lot of pupils are first engaged with art through comic books and when they're working individual or at home, it's through comics.

"We don't really have a lot of that as part of course work but it does get them into drawing. They're learning basic visual elements - it doesn't matter what from they learn that."

Kyle Mclauchlan [corr], 16, from Dumbarton, is doing his Highers in art by creating a comic book - a teenage comedy superhero tale.

"I've been drawing since I was at least five years old," said the S5 pupil. "I started just with cartoons and comics - now it's what I would like to do in the future.

"Drawing comics makes me feel a sense of childhood again. There's so much you miss about life and being able to draw like this gives you a sense of being a child."