[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-getting-ready-for-this-weekend":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Here I am, sitting in the studio, doing my homework:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/morikawa1-46cb064567.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAt the \u003Cb>British International Comics Show\u003C/b> in Birmingham this Sunday at 11:45am, I'm interviewing Japanese manga artist \u003Ca href=\"http://phy.chips.jp/michiru/home.html\">Michiru Morikawa\u003C/a>. She just sent an e-mail to say she's rushing around packing for the trip, and I've been reading through her brilliant comic, \u003Ci>Advent\u003C/i>, at the beginning of Woodrow's copy of \u003Ci>The Mammoth Book of Best New Manga\u003C/i> and putting together a slide show from the images she's sent me. We'll both be launching books there: \u003Ci>Morris the Mankiest Monster\u003C/i> by Giles and me, and \u003Ci>\u003Cb>Buskers\u003C/b>\u003C/i> by Michiru, Jeymes Samuel and Sean Michael Wilson, which is also \u003Ca href=\"http://www.buskersthemovie.com\">being made into a film\u003C/a>.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/morikawa_buskers-6b5297e8ac.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nMichiru sent through lots of amazing images, but some of them were so complicated that I wasn't sure if we'd be able to get the most out of them in a slide show. I hope she doesn't mind, I've done a lot of closeups of her work, because I think the artwork looks even more beautiful when it's broken down into little pieces. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/morikawa2-66b930c262.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nHere's a closeup of the first picture in the sequence:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/morikawa3-6180f106d1.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nHope to see you at BICS! (I'd give you the web link but they seem to have exceeded their bandwidth...)","2009-09-30T16:40:00.000Z","getting-ready-for-this-weekend",[],"getting ready for this weekend",1776628733352]