[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-comica-illo":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"I'm working like a maniac on this picture book (much of which is already selling at the \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_Book_Fair\">Frankfurt book fair\u003C/a>), but managed to slide this one in the margins for the upcoming \u003Ca href=\"http://www.comicafestival.com/index.php/festival/program09/\">Comica festival\u003C/a>. (You can see \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/243516.html\">earlier versions here\u003C/a>.) It's not the final illustration, Peter Stanbury's still going to do lots of things to it, so I am trying to let it go and not worry about it, heh heh.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/comica1-1-86bc933400.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAny resemblance to anyone living or undead is purely coincidental, of course.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://www.booktrade.info/index.php/showarticle/23768\">DFC news here!\u003C/a> Congratulations to \u003Cb>Kate Brown\u003C/b> with her \u003Ci>Spider Moon\u003C/i>, \u003Cb>Dave Shelton\u003C/b> with \u003Ci>Good Dog, Bad Dog\u003C/i> and \u003Cb>Adam Brockbank\u003C/b> and \u003Cb>Ben Haggarty\u003C/b> with \u003Ci>Mezolith\u003C/i> for being the first DFC strips to go out in book form! Get ready to pick up your own copies this spring. Exciting!\\r\n\\r\nThe other cool thing, don't miss today's Guardian supplement, \u003Ci>Great Fairytales, part 7: Beastly Tales\u003C/i>, absolutely crammed full of illustrations by the amazing \u003Cb>Eleanor Davis\u003C/b> (\u003Ca href=\"http://squinkyelo.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">squinkyelo\u003C/a>). Yay! I swear, that woman never sleeps.","2009-10-16T15:41:00.000Z","comica-illo",[],"comica illo",1776628733443]