[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-etherington-bros-when-excess-baggage-is-a-good-thing":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Aaahh, what are those marvelous goodies in the window of Daunt Books???\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/baggage_ldnlaunch_4-b1efee0f12.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nIt's BAGGAGE, the \u003Ca href=\"http://theetheringtonbrothers.blogspot.com/\">Etherington Brothers\u003C/a>' brand-new addition to the DFC Library series of AMAZING comics for kids, adults, aliens, cowboys, whoever craves pages full of lush story goodness. Here's writer \u003Cb>Bob Etherington\u003C/b>, our fab publisher \u003Cb>David Fickling\u003C/b>, and artist \u003Cb>Lorenzo Etherington\u003C/b> at their madcap launch on Thursday night in London.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/baggage_ldnlaunch_1-229ef6d346.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nLookie, lookie, isn't it lovely? And at the party, we had not only The Brothers, but two other creators from about-to-be-launched \u003Cb>DFC Library\u003C/b> books! From the left, here's \u003Cb>James Turner\u003C/b>, David, \u003Cb>John Aggs\u003C/b> and The Bros.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/baggage_ldnlaunch_5-4db6993c02.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nSo let's have a little peek, shall we? (Am I allowed? Heh heh... apologies, these are merely snapshots, you can probably get *proper* scans from the publicists or artists themselves.) But a little peek, just for yoooou.... \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/baggage_covers-8d3e64e6ed.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003C!--more ***Click here for LOADS more comic goodness under the cut!***-->\\r\nThe back cover reads: \u003Ci>Meet \u003Cb>Randall\u003C/b>, a happy-go-lucky but disaster-prone lost property officer with an impossible task. In order to save the job he loves he must locate the owner of the oldest item stored in his immense warehouse... in just one day!\\r\n\\r\nSo begins an adventurous journey through a wonderous city. Clues are uncovered when Randall leasts expects them, and help arrives from the strangest of quarters. \\r\n\\r\nBut whereever Randall goes, trouble is sure to follow. And even if he succeeds in his mission, just how much of the city will be left standing?\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\nOh, and would'ya look at this title page?! Beeyootiful.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/baggage_titlepage-a96dd8f1f3.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nOkay, and a sneaky little peek at the action-packed, highly caffeinated world inside those Etherington Brothers' heads.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/baggage_peek-d9c4d342a6.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nWarning: book includes MASS DESTRUCTION.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/baggage_peek2-51be62ea51.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nMoving on to another of Thursday's party's very special guests! Here is the magnificent \u003Ca href=\"http://www.eruditebaboon.co.uk/\">James Turner\u003C/a> with his journalist partner \u003Ca href=\"http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/akanksha-awal/4/25/70\">Akanksha Awal\u003C/a>. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/baggage_ldnlaunch_16-578f7195fe.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI've been waiting SO LONG for this book to come out. Do you remember these wacky little guys? They ran at the same time as my \u003Ci>Vern and Lettuce\u003C/i> in The Guardian, and I am a huge fan. James is possibly the funniest writer I know, and his drawings perfectly capture the spirit of the characters' banter.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/superanimal_covers-cf18452ed3.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nEvery book needs an exploding pirate ship. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/superanimal_peek-252baef5e8.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nA cunning escape ruse... involving... pumice? Whaaa...? Ha ha ha...\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/superanimal_peek2-98a6aec77b.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd our next very special guest, \u003Ca href=\"http://aqwatic.blogspot.com/\">John Aggs\u003C/a>! Here is is with one of our fab DFC editors, \u003Cb>Will Fickling\u003C/b>, who currently is commissioning work for the \u003Ca href=\"http://thephoenixcomic.co.uk/\">Phoenix Comic\u003C/a>. (Comic creators and readers, if you don't know about the Phoenix Comic yet - which launches in January - \u003Ca href=\"http://thephoenixcomic.co.uk/\">GO LOOK NOW\u003C/a>.)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/baggage_ldnlaunch_17-f5b50553db.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nJohn and his fantastic mum \u003Ca href=\"http://patriceaggs.com/\">Patrice Aggs\u003C/a> collaborated to bring you \u003Ci>\u003Cb>The Boss\u003C/b>\u003C/i>, with John writing and Patrice drawing. It's a wonderfully gripping whodunnnit, a sort of \u003Ci>Emil and the Detectives\u003C/i> set in the present day.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/theboss_covers-a526bd17e0.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nThe back cover reads: \u003Ci>Cunning criminal masterminds have planned a daring theft from the castle museum. They've figured out everything down to the last detail.\\r\n\\r\nThere's just one thing they haven't bargained for: a class of super-sleuthing school children with a very special secret weapon.\\r\n\\r\nWill the thieves pinch the priceless prize, or have they met their match in the boy known only as 'The Boss'?!\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/theboss_peek-a7317113c7.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI remember when I was a kid (reading a series called \u003Ci>Encyclopedia Brown\u003C/i>, trying to solve mysteries with complicated diagrams and codes. This book would've been right up my twisty-turning alley.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/theboss_peek2-0dfa568876.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nWhoo hoo! Party time! And of course, you remember there are several other amazing books in the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.davidficklingbooks.co.uk/davidficklingbooks_dfclibrary.asp\">DFC Library\u003C/a>...\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/baggage_ldnlaunch_12-fbcc10f754.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd here are \u003Ci>BAGGAGE\u003C/i>'s comic brothers and sisters, smothered in bananas in the back of \u003Ci>BAGGAGE\u003C/i>: \u003Ci>\u003Cb>Good Dog, Bad Dog\u003C/i>\u003C/b> by \u003Ca href=\"http://www.daveshelton.com/\">Dave Shelton\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.jabberworks.co.uk/vernlettuce-book.php\">\u003Ci>\u003Cb>Vern and Lettuce\u003C/i>\u003C/a>\u003C/b> by... oh, me!, \u003Ci>\u003Cb>Mezolith\u003C/i>\u003C/b> by \u003Ca href=\"http://www.crickcrackclub.com/CRICRACK/TELLUKAF.HTM\">Ben Haggarty\u003C/a> (who was at the party - why didn't I manage to get a photo of him?!) and \u003Ca href=\"http://www.adambrockbank.com/\">Adam Brockbank\u003C/a>, \u003Ci>\u003Cb>Spider Moon\u003C/i>\u003C/b> by \u003Ca href=\"http://danse-macabre.nu/\">Kate Brown\u003C/a>, \u003Ci>\u003Cb>Mo-bot High\u003C/i>\u003C/b> by \u003Ca href=\"http://www.neillcameron.com/\">Neill Cameron\u003C/a> and the Etherington Bros' first book, \u003Ci>\u003Cb>Monkey Nuts\u003C/i>\u003C/b>. An amazing team, and yes, quite a few of them do events and workshops and teach people how to make amazing story comics. (You can contact them directly through their websites or drop a line to publicist \u003Cb>Lauren Bennett\u003C/b>: lbennett@randomhouse.co.uk)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://www.davidficklingbooks.co.uk/davidficklingbooks_dfclibrary.asp\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/dfclib_collectthemall-abaa30bda9.jpg\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nThese will be great Christmas prezzies for the whole family. They're generally aimed at people 8 years and older, but I've seen precocious younger kids pore over them, too. You'll be able to buy them \u003Ca href=\"http://www.forbiddenplanet.co.uk/#activePage=search&searchTerm=DFC+Library&searchCat=&searchMode=term&pagerPage=1&pagerTotalItems=3\">here at Forbidden Planet International\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.goshlondon.com/\">Gosh! Comics\u003C/a>, your local comic book shop, your local indie bookshop, hopefully the big chains too, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=DFC+Library&x=0&y=0\">Amazon\u003C/a>, etc.\\r\n\\r\nA few more photos from the fab launch:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/baggage_ldnlaunch_3-5072e8b4ae.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nDavid Fickling gave what can only be called a wild speech about working with the Etheringtons and about comics in general. But somehow Bob Etherington managed to give a speech that was EVEN MORE NUTS, I think maybe they were having a mad speech competition. It was pretty funny.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/baggage_ldnlaunch_10-e17b6c5e8d.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nHere are my new DFB picture book editor \u003Cb>Kirsten Armstrong\u003C/b>, Phoenix Comic hustler \u003Cb>Laurence Beck\u003C/b>, \u003Cb>Rose Fickling\u003C/b> and Phoenix Comic coordinator (and David's wife, Rose's mum) \u003Cb>Caro Fickling\u003C/b>.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/baggage_ldnlaunch_7-11713ad6c1.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nLorenzo with comic creator extraordinaire \u003Ca href=\"http://www.deemonproductions.com/\">Andie Tong\u003C/a>. (He's drawn the British versions of \u003Ci>Spider-man\u003C/i>, among other things.)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/baggage_ldnlaunch_8-41d05b92dc.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nThe terribly exciting, whip-cracking DFB office coordinator \u003Cb>Matilda Johnson\u003C/b> and her new squeeze, \u003Cb>Joe\u003C/b>. (Oooo! It's luv!)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/baggage_ldnlaunch_14-90ee80b777.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd fabulous evil mastermind publicity coordinator \u003Cb>Lauren Bennett\u003C/b>, who also pours a mean glass of bubbly:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/baggage_ldnlaunch_2-f29a28a7f6.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nOkay, just one more detail from the back of James' \u003Ci>Super Animal Adventure Squad\u003C/i>, 'cos it made me laugh....\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/superanimal_beasley-f7ffa20cf1.jpg\">","2011-10-15T09:53:00.000Z","etherington-bros-when-excess-baggage-is-a-good-thing",[],"etherington bros: when excess BAGGAGE is a good thing",1776628720825]