Stephen Irwin is a graduate of Central St. Martins College of Art & Design. He has received commissions from the UK Film Council & Film London, BBC New Talent, Warp Films and Animate Projects (Channel 4 / Arts Council England). His film 'The Black Dog's Progress' won the Best Short Film award at the British Animation Awards 2010. It also received an Axis Public Realm nomination and was screened on Channel 4 as part of Animate TV. He was named as one of Animation Magazines Rising Stars of Animation 2009.
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The Story of a Bad Boy" is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Thomas Bailey Aldrich in 1870. Although loosely based on his own childhood, it is a fictional story of a young boy's experience growing up in the Northeast of the United States. By introducing readers for the first time to a portrait of a boy in less than idealistic light, Aldrich's story is considered to be the foundation of what has come to be called the "bad boy" genre of literature. It has influenced the creation of some of the most memorable characters in storytelling from Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn to Dennis the Menace and Bart Simpson.
This genre of literature has gone beyond the pages of books to film and tel...