[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-back-from-bath":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"We had good fun at our comics panel for \u003Ca href=\"http://www.thedfc.co.uk\">the DFC\u003C/a> at the Bath kids lit fest on Saturday. Here's \u003Cb>Bob Etherington\u003C/b> (writer of \u003Ci>Monkey Nuts\u003C/i>) basking in the joy of the liquorice allsorts jar and lava lamp luxury of the VIP lounge. Apparently comics people don't usually get VIP lounges, so we thought we'd better document it.\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/bath1-e45cfec206.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI got to meet \u003Cb>Vivian French\u003C/b> in the lounge, which was cool. (She wrote a book called \u003Ci>The Thistle Princess\u003C/i>, which was beautifully illustrated by my first illustration teacher, Elizabeth Harbour.) The Bath venue was SO lush, this huge room with giant chandeliers and an intimidating sea of seats. (I'll post photos later, they're in my dad's camera, which doesn't seem to load to my computer.) We had a good turnout and the kids there asked really perceptive questions about making the comics, I was impressed. Here we are in the pub afterwards: me, \u003Cb>Bob Etherington, Lorenzo Etherington\u003C/b> (Bob's brother, who draws \u003Ci>Monkey Nuts\u003C/i>) and \u003Cb>John Aggs\u003C/b> (who draws \u003Ci>John Blake\u003C/i> for Philip Pullman and writes \u003Ci>The Boss\u003C/i>):\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/bath2-4fd3153e11.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003C!--more Click here for another photo and sketches and stuff-->\\r\nHere's another one of my dad and my publisher \u003Cb>David Fickling\u003C/b> (the one in the red dickie bow) and our DFC web designer \u003Cb>Tom Fickling\u003C/b>. They sat off to the side and had a long intense discussion about books and airplanes.\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/bath3-a1c2b2ebe1.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nSince my parents and Stuart came along, we made a weekend of the trip. Here's a sketch I did of a remarkable Vivienne Westwood dress at the Costume Museum:\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/bath4-c5f943280f.jpg\">\\r\nMy parents wanted to go to the sung service at Bath Abbey on Sunday morning, and I drew a couple of the choirboys:\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/bath5-024c4f9de5.gif\">\\r\n\\r\nHere's a rough drawing of my parents on the train ride back to London. They moved around a lot, and the proportions are all wrong, but I still kind of like it.\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/bath6-16f0a36228.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd it was great coming back to this fan pic by John Rowley in my inbox. Thanks, John!\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/rowley-d09c41a7a3.jpg\">","2008-09-28T23:18:00.000Z","back-from-bath",[],"back from bath",1776628723635]