Monthly Archives: March 2011
london comic and small press expo
I’ve been intending for more than a week to blog these photos from the London Comic & Small Press Expo, which was fabulous! The exhibition hall at Goldsmith’s University was gorgeous with its enormous domed ceiling and pipe organ, and … Continue reading
oundle festival, polly dunbar’s show, new hamster book
Yesterday, the Oundle Festival of Literature hosted my You Can’t Eat a Princess! event in this appropriately palatial hall. They squeezed in exactly 301 children and we had a great time drawing aliens and designing space ships. Here’s Leigh Giurlando, … Continue reading
vern and lettuce in switzerland!
Oh, wow! This e-mail from Jill Collinge just made my day: Vern and Lettuce went to the Geneva car show. On the way they found some signs of spring – MASSIVE flowers. Unfortunately the Swiss have a habit of using … Continue reading
very serious meeting notes
I finished my picture book! Hurrah! Yesterday was my deadline and I rode the Underground to the Scholastic offices to deliver my artwork to my designer, Zoe Waring. She was thrilled with how it came out, relief! I was absolutely … Continue reading
some tractor relief
I’ve been a bit stressed out lately with deadlines (the most pressing being my picture book artwork for this spring’s Bologna book fair, a deadline which is… tomorrow!). But people have been very kind. Here’s a picture from Sam Reeve … Continue reading
gallivespian at expo
I’ll blog more photos soon from this weekend’s excellent Small Press and Comics Expo, but I’m on my book’s final deadline homestretch today, so I think I’d better hold off on that for a bit. Just thought I’d put up … Continue reading
dear rosemary
My first agent, Rosemary Canter, died this morning and I’ve written a letter to her, even though I know she won’t be able to read it. She was a wonderful person and there are a lot of us who will … Continue reading
help! i’m stuck in a horror film!
I’m in the deepest throes of deadline work right now, and I had to go back to the studio after dinner to do some more work… only to be greeted by this! Our studio guard gnome… IT’S ALIVE. I’d never … Continue reading
visiting the tates
A few more photos from my sister’s visit. Here she is at the Tate Britain, lit up like a chandelier. Mary’s such a magpie, she loves little crystals and shiny things. I doodled a few of the paintings, and they … Continue reading
st paul’s sketch
On Sunday, my sister and I went to the Tate Modern, then she wanted to pop across the Millennium Bridge to St Paul’s Cathedral to hear the sung Evensong. I did a quick sketch while we were waiting for the … Continue reading
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