[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-happy-birthday-garen-ewing":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"To celebrate my friend Garen's 40th today, we're all plugging his amazing upcoming \u003Cb>Rainbow Orchid\u003C/b>,  the first of three books in the series published by Egmont and launching at the beginning of August. I was lucky enough to snap up one of his 50 editions of the self-published version and I can tell you, it's lush! It's a 1920s comics adventure story, featuring cool airplanes and motorcars, a steamship, and a great cast of characters, including a starlet, a reporter, and my favourites, French twin mechanics \u003Ca href=\"http://www.garenewing.co.uk/rainboworchid/readerscorner/readers_art.php\">(here's the fan art I made of them).\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/garen_ewing-1-b55b47be59.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nGaren (\u003Ca href=\"http://rainboworchid.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">rainboworchid\u003C/a>) is running \u003Ca href=\"http://www.rainboworchid.co.uk/members/members.php\">a competition\u003C/a> to win one of the two signed cover proofs and a characters drawing, and you can hear a \u003Ca href=\"http://ednapurviance.org/interviews/garenewingpodcast.html\">new interview podcast here\u003C/a>. Here's an \u003Ca href=\"http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/?p=11581\">extensive interview he did with Matt Badham\u003C/a>, including several sneak-peek images. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://www.garenewing.co.uk/rainboworchid/webcomic/stripIndex.php\">Read more details about the comic here\u003C/a>, and you can \u003Ca href=\"http://www.garenewing.co.uk/rainboworchid/shop/shop.php\">pre-order the book on the Rainbow Orchid website\u003C/a>. Both adults and kids are going to go nuts over this book when it comes out, it's all very exciting!\\r\n\\r\nDon't you think his portait is missing something...?\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cb>***Here's my own little Garen competition***: Draw a moustache on Garen, by Sunday evening! If yours is the most flamboyant, Garen will bestow on you an 'Order of the Exalted Moustache'\u003C/b> (which is somewhere in between Member of the British Empire and a knighthood). \\r\n\u003Ci>Please note, additions of various other accessories such as a monocle, jet pack or eyebrow enhancements will be respected and admired but may not necessarily further your competition standing. (...But then again, they might.)\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ci>Edit:\u003C/i> \u003Cb>Hurrah! First moustache pic by \u003Ca href=\"http://neillcameron.blogspot.com/2009/06/happy-40th-of-june.html\">Neill Cameron\u003C/a>!\u003C/b>","2009-06-03T23:01:00.000Z","happy-birthday-garen-ewing",[],"happy birthday, garen ewing!",1776628732657]