[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-jag-ar-barnboksillustrator":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/ari_1-b8457aa332.jpg\" align=\"left\"> Two different sets of friends have both had babies in Thailand this week, one by birth and one by adoption. The adopted one has such cute elf ears, I had to draw her.\\r\n\\r\n\\r\nI just found the website for a Swedish designer I met recently named \u003Ca href=\"http://www.jakobwestman.com\">Jakob Westman\u003C/a>. Jakob's in London to catch all sixteen of the Sparks' concerts while they're here, a concert for each album. \\r\n\\r\nIn a \u003Ca href=\"http://jakobwestman.blogspot.com/2008/06/will-kane-rian-hughes-sarah-mcintyre.html\">blog post\u003C/a>, if I can read the Swedish correctly, he called me a \u003Ci>\u003Cb>barnboksillustratör\u003C/b>\u003C/i>, which is such a lovely, cosy name for my job... I make boks for wee barns! I don't speak Swedish, but when I was little, I went to a church where a lot of the last verses in the hymnal were written in Swedish; if I was bored, I'd sometimes sing the Swedish line instead of the English version just to be ornery.\\r\n\\r\nJakob recommended me to look at the work of Stockholm illustrator \u003Ca href=\"www.jojofalk.se\">Jojo Falk\u003C/a>, very funny and quirky. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://ztoical.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">ztoical\u003C/a> has just posted a few entries (including mine) for her upcoming \u003Ca href=\"http://ztoical.livejournal.com/18017.html\">anthology\u003C/a>. (If you're doing it, don't forget the 8 Aug deadline.)\\r\n\\r\nI've been asked to be on a couple \u003Ca href=\"http://www.thedfc.co.uk\">DFC\u003C/a> panels: \u003Cb>Sat, 9 Aug\u003C/b> at the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.caption.org\">Caption\u003C/a> comics festival in Oxford, and \u003Cb>Sat, 27 Sept\u003C/b> at the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.bathfestivalofchildrensliterature.com\">Bath Festival of Children's Literature\u003C/a>. If you're reading this blog and going to either of those, do leave a note and I'll look out for you!","2008-06-11T07:02:00.000Z","jag-ar-barnboksillustrator",[],"jag är barnboksillustratör",1776628722879]