[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-dear-diary-jan-5-1990":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/deardiary5-15209e5517.gif\">\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/tag/dear%20diary\">(Read earlier illustrated diary entries here.)\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nNewsy news: Alex Fitch of Panel Borders interviews \u003Cb>Alex Milway\u003C/b> (\u003Ci>The Mousehunter\u003C/i> trilogy, the yeti's \u003Ci>The Mythical 9th Division\u003C/i> books and \u003Cb>John Dunning\u003C/b> (\u003Ci>Salem Brownstone\u003C/i>). \u003Ca href=\"http://panelborders.wordpress.com/2010/03/11/panel-borders-yetis-ghosts-and-other-things-that-go-bump-in-the-night/\">Click to listen to it here!\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nOther interesting tidbit about \u003Ca href=\"http://www.themousehunter.com\">Alex Milway\u003C/a>, he's announced that he's going to kick off another year of getting ready for the \u003Ca href=\"http://palacefestival.wordpress.com\">Crystal Palace Children's Book Festival\u003C/a>, for Sat, \u003Cb>Oct 23rd!\u003C/b> But he and Katie have a new baby, so he's going to need help from everyone... which is lucky for us, because this year's festival is going to feature \u003Cb>COMICS!\u003C/b> \\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://www.writeaway.org.uk/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,5466/Itemid,99999999/\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/smilecover-3ff60f45cd.jpg\">\u003C/a> Last night I had a great time reading \u003Cb>Raina Telgemeier\u003C/b>'s book \u003Ca href=\"http://goraina.com/books_smile.html\">\u003Ci>Smile\u003C/i>\u003C/a>, and I wrote \u003Ca href=\"http://www.writeaway.org.uk/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,5466/Itemid,99999999/\">a review, posted on Write Away\u003C/a>. Have a peek! (And leave a comment on Write Away if you fancy.)\\r\n\\r\nOver on the FPI blog, you can look at the amazing work of \u003Cb>Kate Brown\u003C/b> as she \u003Ca href=\"http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2010/walking-through-spider-moon/\">walks us step by step through making the artwork for her upcoming book \u003Ci>Spider Moon\u003C/i>\u003C/a>.\\r\n\\r\nAwhile ago on LiveJournal I friended author \u003Cb>Kate Messner\u003C/b> (\u003Ca href=\"http://kmessner.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">kmessner\u003C/a>), and last night spotted an interesting lead into \u003Ca href=\"http://kmessner.livejournal.com/143001.html\">her entry about graphic novels\u003C/a>:\\r\n\u003Ci>A parent of one of our middle school students approached me at my daughter's ballet class a while back.\\r\n“I was hoping I might be able to talk to you about my son,” he said, shaking his head and wringing his hands in a way that led me to believe the young man must be a drug addict or serial shoplifter.  “He’s constantly reading graphic novels.  What should I \u003Cb>do\u003C/b>?”\u003C/i> (\u003Ca href=\"http://kmessner.livejournal.com/143001.html\">click to read more\u003C/a>)\\r\n\\r\nAnd a curious animation, sent to me by my fab website designer \u003Ca href=\"http://www.hammerheadrabbits.com\">Dan Fone\u003C/a> (Thanks, Dan!):\\r\n\u003Clj-embed id=\"116\"/>\u003Cp>\u003Ca href=\"http://vimeo.com/9652613\">TheHead / hand-drawn animated short\u003C/a> from \u003Ca href=\"http://vimeo.com/podoboo\">podoboo\u003C/a> on \u003Ca href=\"http://vimeo.com\">Vimeo\u003C/a>.\u003C/p>","2010-03-12T14:46:00.000Z","dear-diary-jan-5-1990",[],"dear diary, jan 5, 1990",1776628717758]