[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-interview-with-monica-lee":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Big thanks to American designer, blogger and style consultant \u003Cb>Monica Lee\u003C/b> for interviewing me at \u003Ca href=\"\\r\nhttp://smartcreativewomen.com/childrens-book-artist-sarah-mcintyre-out-for-some-fun/\">Smart Creative Women\u003C/a>! You can watch the 30-minute, in-depth interview over on her blog, where we talk about publishing (comparing American and British experiences), making books and setting ourselves challenges. \u003Cfont size=\"5\">\u003Ca href=\"http://smartcreativewomen.com/childrens-book-artist-sarah-mcintyre-out-for-some-fun/\">Click here to watch!\u003C/a>\u003C/font>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://smartcreativewomen.com/childrens-book-artist-sarah-mcintyre-out-for-some-fun/\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/mcintyre_monica_lee_zps82b9c55b-b91de87b32.jpg\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nIt was loads of fun talking with Monica, even after we finished recording. She reminds me a bit of my studio mate, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.whodunnknit.com/\">Deadly Knitshade\u003C/a>, in the way she understands the Internet and apps and things so well. These are really useful people to have around, and they're both great fun, too. Thanks for all the helpful tips, Monica! \\r\n\\r\nOkay, lots more stuff to bookmark if you're interested! I've done a written interview over on the \u003Ca href=\"http://tinypencil.com/sarah-mcintyre/\">Tiny Pencil blog\u003C/a>, about... using pencils! Funnily enough, just doing two pages for the Tiny Pencil \u003Ci>Summerzine\u003C/i> was so interesting that I adopted elements of the technique for the next picture book I started working on. (Just finishing that book now!)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://tinypencil.com/sarah-mcintyre/\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/tinypencil_interview_zps22a56b5e-1d04285934.jpg\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nSome great festivals coming up! Lots of festivals! I'm in Edinburgh this weekend so I'm gutted to be missing \u003Ca href=\"http://captionfestival.wordpress.com/\">Caption Comics Festival\u003C/a> in Oxford. But if you can go, DO. It's a brilliant place to meet up with other creative people and talk about making awesome stories. It's much more social than most comics conventions, with much more emphasis on the seminars and meeting people than on the comics sales, although you can pick up lots of great comics and t-shirts, too. Like this year's, designed by \u003Ca href=\"http://www.devicefonts.co.uk/cgi-bin/device3.cgi?action=news\">Rian Hughes\u003C/a>! \\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://captionfestival.wordpress.com/\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/caption_comics_festival_zps53447457-d56eac8dad.jpg\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cb>David O'Connell\u003C/b>'s just \u003Ca href=\"http://scribblehound.com/caption-and-other-bits-of-news/\">blogged about Caption\u003C/a>, and if you want to see what it's been like in past years, you can browse my earlier blog posts about it \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/tag/caption\">here\u003C/a>. My favourite part is always \u003Cb>Tony Hitchman's quiz night\u003C/b>. You don't even have to know that much about comics to find it hysterically funny. He gives the best tour of the silliest and most jaw-dropping things you'll ever see in print. (See the whole list of events \u003Ca href=\"http://captionfestival.wordpress.com/2013/08/06/caption-programme-now-online/\">here\u003C/a>.)\\r\n\\r\nSo this weekend I'm going to be at the Edinburgh Book Festival! And even though \u003Ci>Oliver and the Seawigs\u003C/i> is not technically comics, the excellent people in the special comics focus part of the festival, STRIPPED, have included Philip Reeve and me \u003Ca href=\"http://strippedbookfest.co.uk/events\">on the programme\u003C/a> for its pre-launch event on Sunday, 2pm. (Book your place \u003Ca href=\"https://www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival/whats-on/monkeys-mermaids-and-big-hair-with-sarah-mcintyre-philip-reeve\">here\u003C/a>!) \\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://strippedbookfest.co.uk/events\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/stripped_banner_zps9adbb8eb-2341ea3e3c.jpg\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nBig thanks to fellow writer and illustrator \u003Ca href=\"http://cathybrett.blogspot.co.uk/\">Cathy Brett\u003C/a> for the mention in \u003Ca href=\"http://strippedbookfest.co.uk/post/58780019134/interview-cathy-brett\">her Stripped interview\u003C/a>! She has lots of good things to say about her work and career and it's definitely worth reading. Here we are at the Hay Festival earlier this year, and Cathy's drawing of the two of us! Here's the Stripped \u003Ca href=\"http://strippedbookfest.co.uk/events\">full list of events\u003C/a>.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://strippedbookfest.co.uk/post/58780019134/interview-cathy-brett\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/sarah_cathy_brett_zps9c6d4be9-c6e8420e4a.jpg\">\u003C/a>","2013-08-21T13:35:00.000Z","interview-with-monica-lee",[],"interview with monica lee",1776628725469]