[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-bog-eyed-book-festival-2018":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Congratulations to Bog Eyed Books for launching their first book festival! That would be my ol' studio mate \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gnorthfield\">Gary Northfield\u003C/a> and his partner \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sillygirlIam\">Nicky Evans\u003C/a>, who've recently started publishing comics! Here's Gary last Wednesday with \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/tormalore\">Tor Freeman\u003C/a>, one of the comic artists who ran workshops at the lovely new community centre at \u003Ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesnes_Abbey\">Lesnes Abbey\u003C/a> in Abbey Wood. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/398631_original-0ccf5ac01d.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nI was lucky enough to get to sit in on Tor's workshop, then I did one featuring the animal tower block setting of \u003Ci>\u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.co.uk/the-new-neighbours/\">The New Neighbours\u003C/a>\u003C/i>. (Together we all designed our own tower blocks, and if you'd like to design your own, you can \u003Ca href=\"http://www.jabberworks.co.uk/the-new-neighbours/\">print out a template here\u003C/a>.) \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/398934_original-cfab66b085.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\u003Ci>\u003Cfont size=\"1\">Tweeted by \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/BogEyedBooks\">@BogEyedBooks\u003C/a>\u003C/i>\u003C/font>\\r\n\\r\n\u003C!--more Click here for more under the cut!-->\\r\nHere's \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/wilburdawbarn\">Wilbur Dawbarn\u003C/a>, who led the first workshop about drawing character movement. And that's his book published by Bog Eyed, which you can find out about (and buy) \u003Ca href=\"http://www.bog-eyed-books.com/\">on their website.\u003C/a> \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/399868_original-a996f3d91a.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd lovely author \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SwapnaHaddow\">Swapna Haddow\u003C/a> came along and brought her family! \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/399354_original-12f026b824.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nHere are Nicky and Tor with some of the books on display. (The two on the left are published by Bog Eyed Books.) \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/399499_original-33219f54cc.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nThe festival had a Comic Jam wall: \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/400557_original-f131df3d12.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\u003Ci>\u003Cfont size=\"1\">Tweeted by \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SwapnaHaddow\">@SwapnaHaddow\u003C/a>\u003C/i>\u003C/font>\\r\n\\r\nThis girl brought a book absolutely chock-a-block with stories she'd been writing and drawing!\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/400116_original-5f13aa2b72.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nThe venue's gorgeous, looking out over the picturesque ruins of the abbey, which dates back to 1178. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/400658_original-30aee6142b.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nA big hurrah for the whole festival team! Gary and Nicky hinted the festival might happen again, so fingers crossed. :) \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/400258_original-6d0c231f23.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">","2018-04-14T22:05:00.000Z","bog-eyed-book-festival-2018",[],"bog eyed book festival 2018",1776628729544]