[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-ghost-chef-cooks-up-a-comic-for-the-sunday-times":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Hey, my comic strip is going to be in this week's copies of \u003Ca href=\"http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/\">The Sunday Times\u003C/a>!\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/mcintyre_times_comic_prev-cc3570fb7f.gif\">\\r\n\\r\nI came up with a new \u003Ci>\u003Cb>Ghost Chef\u003C/i>\u003C/b> character just for the occasion. You can find the half-page comics strip tucked inside the paper in the children's section, called \u003Cb>The Funday Times\u003C/b>. This supplement used to come out weekly, but now only comes out every so often, this time to celebrate the release of Tim Burton's latest animation, \u003Ci>Frankenweenie\u003C/i>. It usually has a Scooby-Doo strip, but I'm hoping their latest commission might mean they're interested in having home-grown comics on a more regular basis. Fingers crossed! \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/sunday_times-e8204bcbac.gif\">\\r\n\\r\nThanks to Sunday Times Supplements Editor \u003Cb>Karen Robinson\u003C/b> for commissioning the strip, and \u003Ca href=\"http://www.damiankelleher.com/drupal/\">Damian Kelleher\u003C/a> for pointing her in my direction.\\r\n\\r\nEvent update! I'm doing a London event with \u003Cb>Booktrust\u003C/b> and their comics-artist-in-residence \u003Ca href=\"http://www.booktrust.org.uk/writing/online-writer-in-residence/biography\">Hannah Berry\u003C/a>: \\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://www.booktrust.org.uk/news-blogs-and-press/news/159/\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/booktrust_comics-7c1a73a1f4.gif\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nYou can \u003Ca href=\"http://www.booktrust.org.uk/news-blogs-and-press/news/159/\">find out more here on the Booktrust website and book your tickets!\u003C/a> (And here's a \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/499666.html\">a drawing I made of Hannah\u003C/a> a few months ago.)\\r\n\\r\nI'm pleased to say that the excellent \u003Cb>Alex Fitch\u003C/b> has made a podcast of the event I did at \u003Cb>Waterstone's Piccadilly with David Almond and Oliver Jeffers\u003C/b>. You can listen to almost the whole event \u003Ca href=\"http://panelborders.wordpress.com/2012/10/11/book-list-magical-realism/\">here\u003C/a>! Ours is the first part of the podcast. (You can see my original blog post about the event \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/510060.html\">here\u003C/a>.)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://panelborders.wordpress.com/2012/10/11/book-list-magical-realism/\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/booklist_jeffers_almond-b0b1d1b774.jpg\">\u003C/a>","2012-10-12T06:33:00.000Z","ghost-chef-cooks-up-a-comic-for-the-sunday-times",[],"ghost chef cooks up a comic for the sunday times!",1776628724299]