[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-book-club-friends":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Yesterday I sketched my fab friends Dan and Alice and their two kids, who all come along our book club that meets every couple months. We just finished reading \u003Cb>\u003Ci>Disgrace\u003C/i>\u003C/b> by J.M. Coetzee, which was great for provoking heated discussion, and now we're onto \u003Cb>\u003Ci>The Tenderness of Wolves\u003C/i>\u003C/b> by Stef Penney. (Don't know anything about it but hope it's good!)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/brewer_family-049fd9eefc.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nCongratulations to Ellen Lindner, who so far has rallied \u003Cb>47 supporters pledging $922 toward our fab zine full of comics\u003C/b>. We're hoping to get a few more on board, if you want to buy our comics, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2019502594/whores-of-mensa-5-best-ever-issue\">please help Ellen get up to $1000!\u003C/a> (And see her in a great promo video.)\\r\n\\r\nAnd congratulations to \u003Cb>Kate Brown and her post-publication launch party for her amazing graphic novel \u003Ci>Spider Moon\u003C/i>!\u003C/b> It's the second to come out in David Fickling's \u003Ca href=\"http://www.davidficklingbooks.co.uk/davidficklingbooks_dfclibrary.asp\">DFC Library\u003C/a> series of comics and I've learned SO much about colouring from this woman. Her compositions, linework and colour palettes are possibly the most beautiful you'll see in British comics right now. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/spiderMoon_-e162d57d86.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>\u003Ca href=\"http://danse-macabre.nu/\">Kate Brown\u003C/a> at her party with Spider Moon and \u003Ca href=\"http://www.neillcameron.com/\">Neill Cameron\u003C/a> with his upcoming \u003C/i>Mo-Bot\u003Ci> High, which comes out in November (photo nabbed from \u003Ca href=\"http://rainboworchid.livejournal.com/64243.html\">Garen Ewing's blog post\u003C/a>)\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\nYou might remember, Kate gave a detailed description of her working processes over on the \u003Ca href=\"http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2010/walking-through-spider-moon/\">FPI blog here last March. Go have a look!\u003C/a> You can buy the book from \u003Ca href=\"http://www.forbiddenplanet.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_music_info&products_id=56263\">FPI here\u003C/a>.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2010/walking-through-spider-moon/\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/spidermoon_fpi-d5e63d7aec.jpg\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nAnd don't miss \u003Cb>Jamie Smart\u003C/b>'s \u003Ca href=\"http://www.findchaffy.com/endless/\">Endless Chaffy Comic\u003C/a>! I can't wait to see his newly launched \u003Ci>Find Chaffy\u003C/i> book. You might already know his work from \u003Ci>Desperate Dan\u003C/i> in The Dandy, from \u003Ci>Fish-Head Steve\u003C/i> in The DFC, and from lots of other places, the guy is a total Powerhouse.\\r\n\\r\nI'm doing a bunch more workshops, including one today at Maida Vale Library and a couple more at the Cartoon Museum on Thursday. \u003Ca href=\"http://www.jabberworks.co.uk/new/events.html\">(Click over to my events page)\u003C/a>","2010-08-09T11:34:00.000Z","book-club-friends",[],"book club friends",1776628718551]