[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-comics-tea":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/garentea-7b9effee94.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nHooray! \u003Cb>Garen Ewing\u003C/b> just posted this drawing \u003Ca href=\"http://www.garenewing.co.uk/rainboworchid/blog/blog.php?request=permalink&entryid=327\">on his blog\u003C/a>! It was great to see him and \u003Ca href=\"http://www.littlewhitebird.com\">Ellen Lindner\u003C/a> during my day in central London on Wednesday (even if that funny-looking little green pastry turned out to cost a fiver). I'm really looking forward to Garen's upcoming work in the DFC, \u003Cb>\u003Ci>Charlie Jefferson and the Tomb of Nazaleod\u003C/i>\u003C/b>. Have you seen Ellen's latest book, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.simonsays.com/content/book.cfm?tab=22&pid=585956&agid=4\">\u003Ci>Little Rock Nine\u003C/i>\u003C/a>? It's well worth reading, and she's currently working on another comic of E.M. Forster's short story, \u003Cb>\u003Ci>The Machine Stops\u003C/i>\u003C/b>. You can read her amazing novel \u003Cb>\u003Ci>Undertow\u003C/i>\u003C/b> \u003Ca href=\"http://www.webcomicsnation.com/ellenlindna/undertow/series.php?view=archive&chapter=24193&mpe=1&step=1\">online here\u003C/a>. \\r\n\\r\nIt's funny, when you get a bunch of comics people together, we always have to get out pens and paper to draw things when we have difficulty describing them. I particularly liked this picture Ellen drew in my notebook during a discussion of historic genetic oddities of the Spanish royal family. (Although I think this must be one of the better looking monarchs.) \\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/ellenpic1-8d4b1acbae.gif\">\\r\nI'm off to the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.britishscbwi.org/\">SCBWI\u003C/a> conference in Winchester today, where in my workshop I'll be giving a first peek at layouts for \u003Cb>the picture book I'm illustrating for David Fickling, written by Britain's best-selling contemporary poet, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.orchardbooks.co.uk/gandrob.htm\">Giles Andreae\u003C/a>\u003C/b>.\\r\n\\r\nI'll be back in London on Sunday morning for the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.ica.org.uk/Great%20British%20Comics%3A%20Past%2C%20Present%20%2B%20Future+18414.twl\">panel at the ICA\u003C/a> with DFC colleagues \u003Cb>Adam Brockbank, John and Patrice Aggs\u003C/b> and \u003Cb>Gary Northfield\u003C/b>. Speaking of which, have you been following Adam Brockbank's DFC strip with Ben Haggarty, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.thedfc.co.uk/strips/mezolith/\">\u003Ci>Mezolith\u003C/i>\u003C/a>? It's just getting better and better, and I was totally amazed by his swan maidens and the big earth woman in the last couple episodes. \\r\n\\r\nDon't forget, you can buy the DFC in Tesco from 26 Nov - 2nd Dec. \u003Ca href=\"http://downthetubescomics.blogspot.com/2008/11/dfc-in-tescos-next-week.html\">(John Freeman comments on the DFC in Tesco here.)\u003C/a> \u003Cb>\u003Ci>Edit\u003C/i>\u003C/b>: And \u003Ca href=\"http://_w_o_o_d_.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">_w_o_o_d_\u003C/a> says \u003Ca href=\"http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=6766\">Waren Ellis has posted about it!\u003C/a>. Cool!\\r\n\\r\nYou can also buy single issues at any time from \u003Ca href=\"http://www.thedfc.co.uk\">the DFC website\u003C/a>.","2008-11-21T07:44:00.000Z","comics-tea",[],"comics tea",1776628724201]