[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-just-before-i-head-to-scotland":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Loads to blog about before I head off tomorrow to the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.wigtownbookfestival.com/childrens-book-festival.asp\">Wigtown Book Festival\u003C/a>! Come along on the Saturday, you can come first to my event, then \u003Ca href=\"http://www.pollydunbar.com\">Polly Dunbar\u003C/a>'s.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cb>**SALE!**\u003C/b> I haven't wanted to sell any of my \u003Ca href=\"http://www.jabberworks.co.uk/new/morris2.html\">\u003Ci>Morris the Mankiest Monster\u003C/i>\u003C/a> illustrations, but I agreed to let one go to the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.facingafricaauction.com/cat/lot_16.html\">Facing Africa charity auction\u003C/a>. It's happening \u003Cb>THIS SATURDAY\u003C/b> in Bath, and you can go along or also \u003Cb>bid online\u003C/b>. If my books ever become household names, this one will be from my first picture book with David Fickling and WORTH A LOT OF MONEY! (Or you can just keep it cos it's nice, hehe.) It's for \u003Ca href=\"http://www.facingafricaauction.com/about.html\">an excellent cause\u003C/a>, please don't let someone walk away with that picture at a bargain-basement price. It's Morris reading his comic in bed...\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://www.facingafricaauction.com/cat/lot_16.html\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/lot_16-95c73e1935.jpg\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\u003Ci>\u003Ca href=\"http://www.facingafricaauction.com/cat/lot_16.html\">Place your bid now!\u003C/i>\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cb>Congratulations to \u003Ca href=\"http://www.peters-books.co.uk/tBkmag.htm\">tBK Mag\u003C/a> on its 30th issue!\u003C/b> \u003Cb>\u003Ca href=\"http://www.jabberworks.co.uk/new/vernlettuce-book.html\">Vern\u003C/a> and \u003Ca href=\"http://www.garynorthfield.co.uk/index.htm\">Derek the Sheep\u003C/a> celebrated by taking over THE WHOLE MAGAZINE\u003C/b> (although occasionally they deign to share the page with \u003Ca href=\"http://www.findchaffy.com/\">Jamie Smart's Chaffy\u003C/a>, just to make him stop squeaking). Here's the first panel of a Vern and Derek Comics Jam. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/tBkMag_1-4cc2fd066c.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nMy super-silly studio mate \u003Cb>Gary Northfield\u003C/b>'s going to post the second panel on \u003Ca href=\"http://stupidmonsters.wordpress.com/\">his blog\u003C/a>. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/tbkMag2-bd0f83a682.jpg\">\\r\n\u003C!--more Loads more stuff under the cut!-->\\r\nA huge thank you to \u003Cb>Sam Reeve\u003C/b> for his fantastic drawing of Vern and Lettuce rocking out, and a very cool drawing of a tractor, with a miniature toy tractor used as a model. You rock, Sam!\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/samreeve2-a72ba00774.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nSam's da, Philip, said \u003Ci>Vern and Lettuce\u003C/i> has done wonders for Sam's reading, and he passed his spelling test at school the other day partly thanks to them: \u003Ci>'One of the words was 'government' and he worked out that it's 'Go Vern! ment' and now has no trouble remembering it.'\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/samreeve3-246fa2acfa.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nLast night I went to hear Philippa Perry talk about her new comic, \u003Ca href=\"http://us.macmillan.com/couchfiction\">\u003Ci>\u003Cb>Couch Fiction\u003C/i>\u003C/b>\u003C/a>. The story takes us into a psychotherapy session between Philippa, the therapist, and her client who has a nasty habit he wants to break. It's very human, she lets us see the therapist making mistakes. And we can read it on two levels (like a Rupert Bear comic!): either we can just read the story going on in the comic panels, or we can follow the more detailed analysis going on in the footnotes. A fascinating read, and great to see the psychology and comics world coming together. Here's the doodle I made of Philippa during the talk:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/philperry-5d45c5b60f.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nThe audience was full of people interested in psychology and I didn't see a single comics person in the crowd. The other guy who was talking about his psychology book did a lot of the speaking and we didn't get to hear much at all about the comic. But three of us went out afterward for drinks with Philippa and got to get to know her a bit better. (Funnily enough, she reminds me a lot of my art tutor from college, Janet Woolley.) Philippa said she'd try to come along \u003Cb>next Monday, 27 Sept\u003C/b> to my studio mate \u003Ca href=\"http://www.littlewhitebird.com\">Ellen Lindner\u003C/a>'s talk at \u003Ca href=\"http://www.nikjep.demon.co.uk/laywhen.htm\">\u003Ci>Laydeez Do Comics\u003C/i>\u003C/a>.\\r\n\\r\n...Speaking of which, last night about eight of us WoM contributors got together at Ellen's house to sign comics for all the people who supported making of the comic by pre-ordering! \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/WoMmag-de9307b8b3.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nHere's a preview video Ellen made:\\r\n\u003Clj-embed id=\"350\"/>\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://vimeo.com/14987869\">\u003Ci>WoM Vimeo link\u003C/i>\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nI owe the fact my morning sketch was rubbish to not going home at a reasonable hour. \\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/womsigning-e3a9080b86.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd here's my morning sketch, drawn in about 15 minutes on Goose Green in \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Dulwich\">East Dulwich\u003C/a>. I didn't even have time to draw the trees, just the space between the trees. Hopefully I'll get to do some more hard-core landscape drawing in Dumfriesshire.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/goosegreen1-c518e6122f.jpg\">","2010-09-22T14:03:00.000Z","just-before-i-head-to-scotland",[],"just before i head to scotland...",1776628718795]