Hollywood eyes up Taupō author/illustrator s work for animated movie
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Carly is a weekend writer for the Bay of Plenty Timescarly.gibbs@nzme.co.nz@ Bay Times
Donovan Bixley has a tuft of wayward blonde hair that s standing vertical, and he s dressed in a T-shirt that he designed, with a black-and-white pussycat s face sewn on it. But it s not just any old tom, it s Claude D Bonair, the scarf-wearing Parisian pilot in the cat air corps, from his adventure book series Flying Furballs.
Bixley s flashed up on to our shared Zoom screen, sitting in his office.
Behind him are his piano, saxophone and a canvas of his own artwork.
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