[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-laydeez-do-comics-2":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Hello! I just got home from tonight's \u003Ca href=\"http://www.laydeezdocomics.com/\">Laydeez Do Comics\u003C/a> event, where I drew a little comic on my lap in the dark, a summary of the first half of the meeting. I scanned it on my home scanner so it's a bit rough:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/laydeez_do_comics-1-e89f0353b5.gif\">\\r\n\\r\nHere's the brilliant \u003Ca href=\"http://www.simonelia.com/\">Simone Lia\u003C/a>, whose comics you might recognise from the former DFC magazine and the current \u003Ca href=\"http://www.thephoenixcomic.co.uk/\">Phoenix comic\u003C/a>. She has a brave and excellent new book out called \u003Ci>Please God, Find Me a Husband!\u003C/i>, in which she explores God, faith and getting a boyfriend. She's signing a book here for \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/#!/JessHCave\">Jessica Cave\u003C/a>:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/laydeez_simone_lia-5087d3e4d0.jpg\">\\r\n\u003C!--more Click for more under the cut!-->\\r\nHa ha, I hear rumours that there was a queue of guys at this past weekend's Comiket who were eager to help God answer her request, but no one reported her taking him up on it. You can \u003Ca href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/interactive/2012/apr/19/simone-lia-graphic-novel-slideshow\">read the first chapter over here on The Guardian website\u003C/a>. Here's an interview by Mike Medaglia of Gosh! London:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Clj-embed id=\"1511\"/>\\r\n\\r\nThis was the first time I met \u003Ca href=\"http://www.tomgauld.com/\">Tom Gauld\u003C/a>, although I've admired his work in the Saturday Guardian for years. He only gets 24 hours to come up with his weekly comic, and he's done over 300 of them. His new book, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.tomgauld.com/index.php?/shop/goliath/\">\u003Ci>Goliath\u003C/i>\u003C/a>, tells the Biblical story of David and Goliath, but from Goliath's perspective. It's beautiful, a very poignant look at a rather confused tall man who doesn't even want to fight. You can \u003Ca href=\"http://boingboing.net/2012/02/28/tom-gaulds-goliath-exclusiv.html\">see some excerpts over on the Boing Boing blog\u003C/a>. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/tom_gauld_goliath-dc39761ad3.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd here's one of the speakers from the second part of the evening, Ian, also known as \u003Ca href=\"http://thomferrier.com/\">Thom Ferrier\u003C/a>, with his new comic \u003Ci>Disrepute\u003C/i>. (I haven't read it yet, but Ian gave a great talk about comics and medicine.) That's Tom, over his shoulder. \u003Ca href=\"http://lambiek.net/artists/b/ball_rachael.htm\">Rachael Ball\u003C/a> also gave a good talk, touching on earlier work she created for \u003Ci>Deadline\u003C/i> magazine and later material.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/laydeez_thomferrier-cf323c107f.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nBesides Tom, another person I got to meet for the first time was Brighton-based \u003Cb>Hannah Berry\u003C/b>, creator of \u003Ca href=\"http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2008/skipping-brulightly-along-with-hannah-berry/\">\u003Ci>Britten & Brülightly\u003C/i>\u003C/a>, here with her soon-to-be-published graphic novel \u003Ci>\u003Cb>Adamtine\u003C/b>\u003C/i> and Times reviewer \u003Ca href=\"http://www.neelmukherjee.com/\">Neel Mukherjee\u003C/a>.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/laydeez_hannah_berry-ad40027d1a.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI was sitting right in the back with \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILYA\">ILYA\u003C/a> and \u003Ca href=\"http://laydeezdopodcasts.wordpress.com/2011/02/10/philippa-perry-couch-fiction/\">Philippa Perry\u003C/a> and as the evening wore on, despite the fascinate talks, my attention span wobbled slightly. So I kept drawing, to focus. (Click \u003Ca href=\"http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l27/jabberworks/Events/laydeez_roguesgallery.jpg\">here\u003C/a> to see a clearer image.)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l27/jabberworks/Events/laydeez_roguesgallery.jpg\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/laydeez_roguesgallery1-8707c7c04e.jpg\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/laydeez_ilya-b58ef2666e.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nHere's cake baker extraordinaire, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.sarahlightman.com\">Sara Lightman\u003C/a>, on the left, who organises the talks along with \u003Ca href=\"http://www.streetenillustration.com/\">Nicola Streeten\u003C/a>. (The other two are Philippa, Ian/Thom and \u003Ca href=\"http://kripakreations.com/Home.html\">Kripa Joshi\u003C/a> smiling away in the back!) Thanks for all your work, Sara, Nicola, bookseller and speakers! Mark your diary for the next meeting: \u003Cb>Monday, 21 May\u003C/b>. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/laydeez_sarahphilippaian-5979333f05.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nDon't forget, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.goshlondon.com/events/\">Darryl Cunningham is launching is \u003Ci>Science Tales\u003C/i> tonight\u003C/a> (Tuesday) at Gosh! London from 6:30pm! And to wrap up, here's some graffiti I saw along the way to the meeting, just off Brick Lane. Cute little birdie. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/shoreditch_graffiti_2-035a1a4a05.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/shoreditch_graffiti-092b578136.jpg\">","2012-04-23T23:23:00.000Z","laydeez-do-comics-2",[],"laydeez do comics",1776628721710]