[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-cats-cupcakes-knitting-with-vivian-schwarz":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Yesterday I hopped on my bicycle and popped over to the fabulous independent \u003Ca href=\"http://www.reviewbookshop.co.uk\">Review bookshop\u003C/a> on Bellenden Road in Peckham for the launch of \u003Cb>\u003Ci>There are cats in this book\u003C/i>\u003C/b> by \u003Ca href=\"http://www.vivianeschwarz.co.uk/\">Viviane Schwarz\u003C/a>. I already loved Viviane's work from her comics - picture book hybrid \u003Ci>Shark and Lobster\u003C/i>, written and drawn by Viviane and digitally coloured by another artist I very much admire, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.joelstewart.co.uk\">Joel Stewart\u003C/a>. Viviane did all the work on this latest cat book, and it is beautiful!! Lots of quirky cut-out pages and flaps and gorgeous drawings with colours that are tastefully textured and bright at the same time. The solid red cover looks almost Russian avant-garde, and the Walker Books designer, Ben Norland, joked that he'd almost gotten away with a cover with nothing on it. I totally love it! Have a look at \u003Ca href=\"http://vivianeschwarz.blogspot.com/\">Viviane's blog\u003C/a>, lots of great stuff there.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/schwartz1-24454ea02b.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>David O'Connell modelling book and cupcakes, Vivian Schwarz, Alexis Deacon, Alex Milway\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\nI met up at the launch with Dave O'Connell (\u003Ca href=\"http://tozocomic.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">tozocomic\u003C/a>) and \u003Ca href=\"http://www.themousehunter.com/\">Alex Milway\u003C/a> and we ate some of the cat cupcakes Viviane had made and watched her knit a little cat while sitting at one of those old-fashioned wooden school desks. The shop was wonderfully cosy and it was great seeing friends, and then another one of my favourite illustrators, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.alexisdeacon.co.uk\">Alexis Deacon\u003C/a> walked in, and all was right with the world. \\r\n\\r\n...Except that I wanted to stay longer and couldn't, because of a zillion pressing deadlines. Argh! In fact, I am a bit worried tonight is going to be an incredibly late-nighter for tomorrow's \u003Ci>Vern and Lettuce\u003C/i> deadline. The penciling took a bit longer than usual because my first draft unintentionally had a hugely rude, very adult, double-entendre that I didn't even notice until it was well underway. I only spotted it while I was showing it to Stuart and he laughed his head off (but not for the reasons that people are supposed to laugh at Vern and Lettuce.) So I had to redo it before even showing it to my editor. Fortunately Will Kirkby (\u003Ca href=\"http://chamonkee.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">chamonkee\u003C/a>) stays up late inking his comics, so we are going to e-mail on the hour to make sure the other hasn't fallen asleep. It worked last time, fingers crossed.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/schwarz3-3f9b83e89c.jpg\"> \u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/schwarz2-5e8b7c94bc.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>Review bookshop in Peckham and some of Viviane's cats in the shop window\u003C/i>","2008-12-16T19:43:00.000Z","cats-cupcakes-knitting-with-vivian-schwarz",[],"cats, cupcakes & knitting with vivian schwarz",1776628725516]