[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-another-day-of-princessing":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Today's costume at the fab \u003Ca href=\"http://www.discover.org.uk\">Discover\u003C/a> centre in Stratford was more pink princess than space princess, but the princess prize goes to cartoonist \u003Ca href=\"http://www.fazchoudhury.com/\">Faz Choudhury\u003C/a> for giving the best tip for getting big black scuff marks off white PVC boots. (Cif cleaning cream, it was. I tried every other chemical in the bathroom, kitchen and drinks cabinet but Cif worked best.)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/discovercentre2-a38a3dbf0b.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nHere's Rebecca the excellent Stage Manager and the rest of the Discovery team that made things go so well today. I was worried the book might only appeal to girls because of the whole princess thing, but the boys were totally into ALIENS, and SPACE, all was good. I didn't realise that my hair was all over the place from our rather rambunctuous session. We did a lot of shouting and talking about bogeys and stuff. (I never thought this book would slide into Morris territory when I took on the script, but there you go.) \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/discovercentre1-354b1676cc.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nYesterday my favourite animator, Marc Craste, had the session just after me, and today, just as I walked in the front door, the amazing \u003Ca href=\"http://www.writeaway.org.uk/component/option,com_mtree/task,advsearch2/search_id,3682/Itemid,99999999/\">\u003Cb>David Roberts\u003C/b>\u003C/a> was coming out from his session! I should just hang out at the Discover centre all the time to catch glimpses of Britain's best talent.\\r\n\\r\nLinky links! -----------\\r\nThe \u003Cb>Etherington Brothers\u003C/b> have \u003Ca href=\"http://theetheringtonbrothers.blogspot.com/2010/03/dfcs-good-dog-bad-dog-book-1-out-now.html\">posted Lorenzo's great fan art\u003C/a> for Dave Shelton's comic book \u003Ci>Good Dog, Bad Dog\u003C/i>. (Lettuce the rabbit \u003Ca href=\"http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l27/jabberworks/let_fan1.jpg\">still has a crush on those boys.\u003C/a>)\\r\n\\r\nYou can listen online for about five more days to a \u003Ca href=\"http://tallguywrites.livejournal.com/143665.html\">BBC Scotland interview\u003C/a> with manga artist \u003Ca href=\"http://www.asiaalfasi.com/about.php\">Asia Alfasi\u003C/a> and \u003Ca href=\"http://darryl-cunningham.blogspot.com/\">Darryl Cunningham\u003C/a> (\u003Ca href=\"http://tallguywrites.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">tallguywrites\u003C/a>), whose book \u003Ci>Psychiatric Tales\u003C/i> launches in a few weeks with Blank Slate and in the USA with Bloomsbury. \\r\n\\r\nMy friend Alice Brewer pointed me to some \u003Ca href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2010/feb/27/malick-sidibe-photographs\">fab photos by Malick Sidibé\u003C/a> that I didn't see in this weekend's Guardian because the shop had run out. (Great stripey backgrounds and one woman has round glasses that look like something I'd draw.)\\r\n\\r\nAnd \u003Ca href=\"http://www.fumboo.com/\">Jamie Smart\u003C/a> has written a \u003Ca href=\"http://foo5.livejournal.com/162240.html\">remarkable tribute to his dad\u003C/a> and created \u003Ca href=\"http://foo5.livejournal.com/162541.html\">an amazing comic\u003C/a> about their relationship. Totally unmissable.","2010-03-05T22:23:00.000Z","another-day-of-princessing",[],"another day of princessing",1776628734096]