Monthly Archives: December 2011
christmas toast
Ah yes, my Christmas card! Sorry if yours hasn’t arrived, I was a bit patchy this year about sending them out, and I realised I forgot to tick off names before I posted the first few batches. Durr. Keepin’ it … Continue reading
a brief, musty foray into bookshop wonderland
Well, I was going to keep the previous post (the illustrated Mortal Engines short story) hanging about at the top of my blog during the holidays, but I just wanted to get in one more entry, and link to another … Continue reading
philip reeve and i made you a new mortal engines story!
Philip was hemming and hawing about writing ‘something Christmas-y’ for his blog, and I begged him to write a Mortal Engines short story, ‘something a bit horrible,’ I said, ‘with severed heads and violence, not your standard sentimental holiday stuff… … Continue reading
today’s greenwich park tree drawing
I’m feeling a bit out of practice with my tree drawings, so I headed back to Greenwich Park to get back into the swing of things. It started raining, so I didn’t have a chance to finish, but I had … Continue reading
ballet doodles
Today I went to my little friend Dulcie’s ballet recital, held in the brand-new theatre at Alleyn’s School in Dulwich. I hadn’t been to the school for awhile, since my neighbour kid friend grew up, but in the old theatre … Continue reading
moon on a stick: an interview with alison green
So I’m a journalist! No, not really, but I did write an interview article about fab publisher Alison Green for Ireland’s Inis children’s book magazine. It’s a cracking issue, No. 36, with Neil Gaiman‘s reflections on Diana Wynne Jones, an … Continue reading
pick your hedgehog
Hee hee! I love this video! And I can see it might be a way forward for picture book apps… (Thanks for the link, Nikalas Catlow!) Oh, and Jamie Smart has posted the Chaffy card competition entries, go have a … Continue reading
it’s time to draw molly!
Remember I said, a few posts ago, that young comics reviewer Molly Bruton lost her arm to a hungry crocodile? (…I mean, a trampoline? Oh wait, she hasn’t lost it, she still knows where it is.) Well, it wasn’t just … Continue reading
happy christmas, chaffy!
This one’s for the super-talented Jamie Smart and his little white fluff ball named Chaffy. Jamie’s had an amazing year of producing enormous amounts of amazing comics (including for the Phoenix Comic), picture books and a few other things besides, … Continue reading
how to draw captain waffle!
Thanks, Molly Bruton, for this excellent drawing of Captain Waffle from my picture book You Can’t Scare a Pricess! (You might recognise Molly’s name from her comic reviews on the FPI blog.) Poor Molly just fell off a trampoline, broke … Continue reading
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