[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-making-monsters-in-dublin":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Hello, please meet Manky Horace O'Neill, one of many monsters the kids in Dublin created with me.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/dublin20-965dea7f8e.jpg\"> \u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/dublin22-482463cac6.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI met a bunch of fab people at \u003Ca href=\"http://www.comicspace.com/irish24hourcomics/\">Irish 24 Hour Comics Day\u003C/a>, including animator, illustrator and pop-up guru \u003Ca href=\"http://www.maeveclancy.com\">Maeve Clancy\u003C/a>. You can see some of her amazing pop-up work on the video for \u003Cb>Lisa Hannigan\u003C/b>'s song, \u003Ci>Lille\u003C/i>. (You can see a larger version at the \u003Ca href=\"http://vimeo.com/2814124\">Vimeo link\u003C/a> and if that doesn't work, here's the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaFs_uEfqhM\">YouTube link\u003C/a>.)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Clj-embed id=\"69\"/>\\r\nHere's us watching the video (Maeve's the one in front of the laptop), and here's \u003Ca href=\"http://ztoical.daportfolio.com/about/\">Cliodhna Lyons\u003C/a>, who organised the whole thing! (She's wearing Hope Larson's \u003Ca href=\"http://www.hopelarson.com/\">Chiggers\u003C/a> bandanna she got at \u003Ca href=\"http://www.moccany.org/artfest2010.html\">MoCCA\u003C/a>.)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/dublin03-d398643aeb.jpg\"> \u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/dublin11-348365c092.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003C!--more Lots more pics and links under the cut!-->\\r\nI was amazed how much detail some of the people were putting into their comics, considering they were going to be working at it for 24 hours on the trot. Here's one example from \u003Ca href=\"http://eoinmarronart.blogspot.com\">Eoin Marron\u003C/a>:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/dublin08-9b5d603a14.jpg\"> \u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/dublin07-c2e80839df.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI also got to meet \u003Ca href=\"http://www.tsuyoshiogawa.com\">Tsyuoshi Ogawa\u003C/a>, the workshop leader Cliodhna had brought over from Japan, and who had been her working partner during their two-month internship at the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.kyotomm.jp/english/\">Kyoto International Manga Museum\u003C/a>. Here he is with his Australian translator from the museum, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.spacekoala.com\">Cathy Sell\u003C/a>. One fact about Tsyoshi is that he is totally obsessed with fishing, and he lit up when we went to a tackle shop in the city centre. Here he's posing with the shop's rather lovely sign, and the also very lovely fishing lures he bought:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/dublin18-053b4274f8.jpg\"> \u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/dublin23-1d700a107b.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI led four monster workshops, which all went swimmingly. We had some fab (and very cheeky!) children make monsters with me at the Comics Day workshop. (Don't worry, I got permission from everyone's parents for the photos):\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/dublin04-86c3fcb63b.jpg\"> \u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/dublin09-1dfb60fab0.jpg\"> \u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/dublin06-c945cf0463.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI must confess, I had a little difficulty with some of the Irish accents, although I think we all managed to understand each other in the end.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/dublin_dale6-56ec92481b.jpg\"> \u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/dublin05-0c084c38b1.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nWe sat around a little table in Waterstone's Jervis Street and had loads of kids stop by:\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/dublin14-66ab8ac27b.jpg\"> \u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/dublin12-99e2e26a71.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Cb>Dale O'Flaherty\u003C/b> (\u003Ca href=\"http://daleof.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">daleof\u003C/a>) did the workshop with me, drawing great portaits of the kids and bookshop staff. Here's the manager, Steve, with his potrait:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/dublin16-fa547a9924.jpg\"> \u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/dublin13-fd447f9929.jpg\"> \u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/dublin17-c4a698dbc6.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI didn't take any pictures of children at Eason's bookshop, but I promised them I'd post some of their pictures on my blog:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/easons3-44ccab9f73.jpg\"> \u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/easons4-f61c787980.jpg\"> \u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/easons1-13f0fe11f1.jpg\"> \\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/easons2-d958d667b9.jpg\"> \u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/easons5-2e9a8c9c14.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nHere's \u003Cb>Tom Donegan\u003C/b> from \u003Ca href=\"http://www.childrensbooksireland.ie/\">Children's Books Ireland\u003C/a> and \u003Cb>Beata Molendowska\u003C/b> from Dublin's Central Library.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/dublin21-c143272c39.jpg\">\\r\n(You can see more photos and some of the drawings I did in Dublin on \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/244871.html\">the post I did yesterday\u003C/a>.) \\r\nThanks for your support, everyone!\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ci>Edit:\u003C/i> You can read Cliodhna's write-up and see more photos \u003Ca href=\"http://ztoical.livejournal.com/51711.html\">here!\u003C/a>","2009-10-21T16:54:00.000Z","making-monsters-in-dublin",[],"making monsters in dublin",1776628733459]