[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-comics-tea-and-cakes":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"This has been a great week for seeing all of my favourite comics people: at the pub on Saturday, a cafe on Sunday - including \u003Ca href=\"http://www.thedfc.co.uk\">DFC\u003C/a> people \u003Ca href=\"http://www.thedfc.co.uk/writers-artists/woodrow-phoenix/\">Woodrow Phoenix\u003C/a> (\u003Ci>Horse of a Different Colour\u003C/i>) and \u003Ca href=\"http://www.thedfc.co.uk/writers-artists/simone-lia\">Simone Lia\u003C/a> (\u003Ci>Sausage and Carrots\u003C/i>) - and at a coffee shop today. Here's a picture from today with \u003Ca href=\"http://www.garenewing.co.uk\">Garen Ewing\u003C/a> and \u003Ca href=\"http://www.mutantman.com\">David O'Connell\u003C/a>. The little notebook next to me is for writing down all these comics things I haven't heard of, since these guys are a wealth of information that way. (Here's \u003Ca href=\"http://www.garenewing.co.uk/home/writing/davidOconnell.php\">an interview of Dave\u003C/a> between the two of them if you haven't read it yet.)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/teapod-eb47547325.gif\">\\r\n\\r\nGaren's working hard on his upcoming contribution to the DFC, and Dave's just come out with chapter 2 of his ongoing \u003Ca href=\"http://tozocomic.com/\">Tozo comic\u003C/a>. I'm hoping David will do another project with me soon; I had such fabulous fun with \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/tag/airship\">Airship\u003C/a>. Yesterday we had a talk about perspective, and how fun it is to mess it up, but how difficult it can be not to fall back into using the rules. So this sketch was a quick shot at it.\\r\n\\r\nDavid has flagged a couple upcoming London-based \u003Ca href=\"http://community.livejournal.com/scbwi/75318.html\">small press fairs here\u003C/a>.\\r\n\\r\nAnd don't miss your chance to sign up for the sure-to-be-exciting \u003Cb>SCBWI conference in Winchester\u003C/b>, \u003Ca href=\"http://britishscbwi.org/conference2008/index.htm\">Turning Pages: the art and craft of story\u003C/a>, 22-23 November. I've never heard my DFC editor \u003Ca href=\"http://britishscbwi.org/conference2008/faculty_ben.htm\">Ben Sharpe\u003C/a> give a talk before, so I'm looking forward to his panel on the Saturday.","2008-10-15T15:05:00.000Z","comics-tea-and-cakes",[],"comics, tea and cakes",1776628723716]