[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-back-from-caption":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"This was my first-ever visit to \u003Ca href=\"http://www.caption.org/\">Caption\u003C/a>, \u003Cb>Oxford's annual alternative comics festival\u003C/b>, and I had a great time! Thanks a million to Jenni Scott (\u003Ca href=\"http://jinty.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">jinty\u003C/a>) and Richard who put me up for the night and did so much, along with a bunch of other great people, to make this event happen. It was my first-ever time on a comics panel, which was a little daunting, because almost everyone in the room had made comics for longer than I have, but it was very friendly and so interesting to hear what everyone had to say. I'm always on a very steep learning curve when I go to these things. We had a great showing of \u003Ca href=\"http://www.thedfc.co.uk\">the DFC\u003C/a> crew: Kate Brown, Woodrow Phoenix, Nick Abadzis, John Aggs, Neill Cameron, Garen Ewing, Andrew Wildman, Adam Murphy and one of our editors, Will Fickling (did I leave out anyone?).\\r\n\\r\nI forgot about my camera  most of the time, so a lot of the photos are pretty random, but here are a few:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/caption2-a827ba5149.jpg\"> \u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/caption3-07766b5ec9.jpg\">\\r\nThe very hospitable Richard and Jenni, at breakfast with Matt Brooker (aka \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D'Israeli\">D'Israeli\u003C/a>), where I learned that comics convention people can not eat without at least four computers present at table.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/caption1-c05e67082d.jpg\"> \u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/caption4-11bbc9b196.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Phoenix\">Woodrow\u003C/a> with his erupting hot chocolate with marshmallows. And Bridget and Woodrow at a nearby Brazilian restaurant. Bridget just sent me a link to an amazing comics jam called \u003Ca href=\"http://whokilledroundrobin.blogspot.com\">Who Killed Round Robin?\u003C/a> that Woodrow is working on with six other comics artists. I am going away to read it!) She said it inspired a group in Mexico to do \u003Ca href=\"http://cadaver.produccionesbalazo.com/?p=3\">something similar\u003C/a>.\\r\n\u003C!--more More pics here-->\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/caption7-1f1569f2e3.jpg\">\\r\nWith a bemused-looking \u003Ca href=\"http://www.rianhughes.com\">Rian Hughes\u003C/a> at the Brazilian place. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/caption5-9fa923af5d.jpg\">\\r\nWith my fab illustrator friend \u003Ca href=\"http://www.susanburghart.com\">Susan Burghart\u003C/a>, who came up to Oxford at the end of Caption to surprise me and take me out to dinner with her fiance Mike.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/caption6-19d1ecbd20.jpg\">\\r\nSusan and I remarked that the most rock-and-roll thing we could do after a comics convention was go to mass, so that is what we did, even though I am not Catholic. And we went for a lavish French dinner and then ice cream and I got a dark purple tongue.\\r\n\\r\nHere's a very, very rough comic I made on the train ride back.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/nuts1-1-ff95669e28.gif\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/nuts2-1-5f551bbdaf.gif\">\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/nuts3-1-51a9223c7a.gif\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ci>Edit:\u003C/i> Other compiled Caption reports and a video \u003Ca href=\"http://community.livejournal.com/caption/56241.html\">here\u003C/a> thanks to \u003Ca href=\"http://girlycomic.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">girlycomic\u003C/a> in the \u003Ca href=\"http://caption.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">caption\u003C/a> news group.\\r\n\\r\nHere's the link for the book I was reading on the train, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.myriadeditions.com/?location_id=30\">Rumble Strip\u003C/a> by Woodrow Phoenix.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ci>Edit: If anyone knows Steve P (one of the guys who made the Steve Whitaker film), could you give him these links to the \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/75516.html\">painting\u003C/a> and \u003Ca href=\"http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l27/jabberworks/comicguy.jpg\">sketch\u003C/a> I made of him? He always transfixes me with his pink glasses and then I forget to note down his last name or his e-mail.\u003C/i>","2008-08-11T11:07:00.000Z","back-from-caption",[],"back from caption!",1776628732526]