[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-advent-song-doodle":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"A bunch of different things today! Here's an \u003Cb>interview I did for Dan Berry at The Comics Bureau\u003C/b>, \u003Ca href=\"http://thecomicsbureau.co.uk/?p=1518\">do go over and have a look!\u003C/a> The Comics Bureau have been running a \u003Ca href=\"http://thecomicsbureau.co.uk/\">whole host of interviews\u003C/a> with people in the comics community, including \u003Ca href=\"http://thecomicsbureau.co.uk/?p=1380\">one with my studio mate Gary Northfield\u003C/a>.\\r\n\\r\nCongratulations to \u003Cb>Darryl Cunningham\u003C/b> for finishing his comic strip about climate change! You may have read his book about mental health issues, \u003Ci>Psychiatric Tales\u003C/i>; \u003Ca href=\"http://darryl-cunningham.blogspot.com/2010/12/climate-change.html\">go over to his blog and read his strip\u003C/a>. I'm sure, as always, it will garner loads of debate, and Darryl looks very fetching in his red snowsuit.\\r\n\\r\nHere's an extended doodle I did of an \u003Ca href=\"http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/h/i/hillsnor.htm\">advent song\u003C/a> I rather like. That is, I love the rousing first two lines of every verse, then after that, I think the tune wanders a bit. Charles Oakley wrote it in 1870, and it's the sort of thing I bet gave Tolkien a buzz. I could have spent days putting together my little island. If I ever go to prison, designing islands and continents is one of the ways I will while away the time.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/hillsofthenorth-465987374f.gif\">\\r\n\\r\nI finally managed to write and pencil my contribution to the Birdsong/Songbird comics anthology. (\u003Ca href=\"http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2010/birdsongsongbird-yet-another-fantastic-anthology/\">Find out about the first edition here.\u003C/a>) I thought I wasn't going to have time to do it, but I had a sudden burst of energy late last night and did it all at once, then finished it up in Greenwich Park this morning, using one of the trees as reference. It's about a tree with passive-aggressive issues, and when I showed it to Gary just now, he burst out laughing, then told me I was totally mental.\\r\n\\r\n\u003C!--more More pics under the cut, including pub pics with DFC mateys-->\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/grnwch_pk13dec10_1-22c1f46aaa.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nOne of the views I needed for the comic was looking toward the Royal Observatory, but the fog obscured it completely. Lovely morning, though. In places, the fog was so thick, I felt rather excitingly lost.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/grnwch_pk13dec10_5-32125dc9b9.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nA bunch of the DFC crew and mates met up on Friday, and I got to see a folder of \u003Cb>Rob Davis's work on his graphic novel adapation of \u003Ci>Don Quixote\u003C/i>\u003C/b>. So amazing! Here's some original artwork he brought along. You can find out about \u003Ca href=\"http://news.selfmadehero.com/search/label/Don%20Quixote\">his work-in-progress\u003C/a> over on the SelfMadeHero website, read \u003Ca href=\"http://thecomicsbureau.co.uk/?p=1408\">an interview with Rob over at The Comics Bureau\u003C/a> and his \u003Ca href=\"http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2010/best-of-the-year-rob-davis/\">Best of the Year Picks\u003C/a> over on the FPI blog.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/robdavis1-13cf7e113a.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nKeep an eye on the \u003Ca href=\"http://supercomicsadventuresquad.blogspot.com/\">Super Comics Adventure Squad blog\u003C/a> to see what the DFC gang get up to!\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/dfcpub2-9ce9c4787e.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>James Turner, Rob Davis, Gary Northfield\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\nNot just stuff like this.\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/dfcpub3-7439bd2f69.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/dfcpub1-d4c3bfac3c.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>Faz Choudhury, Rob, Rian Hughes, Viviane Schwarz\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/dfcpub5-be24853885.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>Alex Milway, Gary, Rob's friend Geraint\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\nJust a few more foggy pictures from the park.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/grnwch_pk13dec10_2-44567d3ad4.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/grnwch_pk13dec10_4-317e19ccbd.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/grnwch_pk13dec10_3-1f12589f40.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nThis one's probably only for hard-core blog followers and Greenwich residents, but here's how the park looks in the snow. (Link \u003Ca href=\"http://www.thegreenwichphantom.co.uk/2010/12/greenwich-in-the-snow-2/\">here\u003C/a> thanks to the Greenwich Phantom.)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Clj-embed id=\"498\"/>\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OUiASq5dtM\">\u003Ci>Greenwich in the Snow YouTube link\u003C/i>\u003C/a>","2010-12-13T13:20:00.000Z","advent-song-doodle",[],"advent song doodle",1776628719334]