[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-mcm-expo-day-3-round-up":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Despite my appalling fan-girl faux pas \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/338890.html\">yesterday\u003C/a>, the marvelous \u003Ca href=\"http://warwickjohnsoncadwell.blogspot.com/\">Warwick Johnson Cadwell\u003C/a> slipped me this handmade card just as Gary and I were packing up our stall. Happiness!\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/wjc_halloween-9fa0da9416.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://www.lizzlizz.com/comic/index.php\">Lizz Lunney\u003C/a> and \u003Ca href=\"http://mycardboardlife.com/\">Philippa Rice\u003C/a> impressed us mightily with their knitted wizard beards.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/mcm_oct10c_7-297d95119e.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>Lizz Lunney, Philippa Rice\u003C/i>\\r\n\u003C!--more LOADS more write-up, photos and expo loot under the cut!-->\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/mcm_oct10c_1-54384ff600.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>Lizz Lunney and Philippa Ricewith with \u003Ca href=\"http://www.timothywinchester.com\">Timothy Winchester\u003C/a>\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\nI snapped a couple photos of some of the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.jabberworks.co.uk/new/vernlettuce-book.html\">\u003Ci>Vern and Lettuce\u003C/i>\u003C/a> dedication drawings I made (oddly, on a piratical theme).\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/mcm_oct10c_12-90afec701e.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI was lucky enough to be seated near some of the genuinely nicest guys in comics: my studiomate \u003Ca href=\"http://www.garynorthfield.co.uk\">Gary Northfield\u003C/a> on my left and DFC Library colleague \u003Ca href=\"http://www.neillcameron.com\">Neill Cameron\u003C/a> on my right, then \u003Ca href=\"http://theetheringtonbrothers.blogspot.com/\">Robin Etherington\u003C/a> one further along. It was fun watching Neill's new book, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.neillcameron.com/comics.html\">\u003Ci>Mo-Bot High\u003C/i>\u003C/a> go down a storm; here are some very happy visitors.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/mcm_oct10c_16-e9bb248747.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ci>Edit:\u003C/i> Here's \u003Ca href=\"http://neillcameron.blogspot.com/2010/11/identity-theft-in-valley-of-ninjas.html\">Neill's writeup of the weekend\u003C/a>! \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/mcm_oct10c_15-0f21fd6cca.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nYou can see Neill walk you through his process of drawing \u003Ci>Mo-Bot High\u003C/i> on a \u003Ca href=\"http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2010/mo-betta-neill-cameron-talks-us-through-creating-mo-bot-high/\">recent entry here\u003C/a> on the FPI blog.  \\r\n\u003Ca href=\">http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2010/mo-betta-neill-cameron-talks-us-through-creating-mo-bot-high/\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/neill-43d1bde7ab.jpg\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nI minded Neill's table a few times and tried my hand at pretending to be him and drawing Mo-Bots on his sketchpad. Here's me in Neill \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosplay\">cosplay\u003C/a> gear. I think I might get a flat cap. (I was a bit too worn out from this month's events to get together a proper costume, a deficiency which rather pained me. Must do better next time.)\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/mcm_oct10c_18-74c04b5480.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI was very pleased to meet \u003Cb>Lisa Wood\u003C/b>, one of the main organisers for the upcoming \u003Ca href=\"http://www.thoughtbubblefestival.com\">Thought Bubble comics convention\u003C/a> in Leeds on Sat, 20 Nov. She's letting the Leeds-based writer of \u003Ca href=\"http://www.jabberworks.co.uk/new/princess.html\">\u003Ci>You Can't Eat a Princess!\u003C/i>\u003C/a> Gillian Rogerson and me set up a space-themed kids activity area. Everyone raved last year about Thought Bubble, so I'm really looking forward to it. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://www.thoughtbubblefestival.com/\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/mcm_oct10c_11-af7ee3521a.jpg\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\u003Ci>Leeds Thought Bubble organiser Lisa Wood\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\nHere are a few of the comics and mini comics I managed to nab at Expo. I still have yet to read most of them in any depth, but I'll let you catch a glimpse of what made me pick them up. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/wjc_kanj-b8e705c090.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>'Kanj' by \u003Ca href=\"http://warwickjohnsoncadwell.blogspot.com/\">Warwick Johnson Cadwell\u003C/a>\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/mcm_oct10c_2-b5fa923cfc.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>\u003Ca href=\"http://edwardmaross.blogspot.com/\">Edward Ross\u003C/a> and \u003Ca href=\"http://www.lukepearson.com\">Luke Pearson\u003C/a>\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\nI've admired Luke Pearson's cover to the recent \u003Ca href=\"http://solipsisticpop.com\">\u003Ci>Solipsistic Pop 2\u003C/i>\u003C/a> anthology, so I was glad to meet him at Expo in person. He has a great sense of design and colouring. \u003Ca href=\"http://www.nobrow.net\">NoBrow\u003C/a> press are publishing some of his work soon, and his look fits well into their gorgeous aesthetic that makes me people want to stroke the matte covers and sniff the pages.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/luke_pearson_postcd-e6862d09ff.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>Postcard by Luke Pearson\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/luke_pearson1-0d9a681af5.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>'Dull Ache' by Luke Pearson\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/luke_pearson2-71c739bf2c.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>'Dull Ache' by Luke Pearson\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/lukepearson3-2386d69666.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>'Some People' by Luke Pearson\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\nI'm such a sucker for wrapped-up parcels. This one's about those shoes you see tied together and strung up on power lines or in trees. (We have a lot of those in my neighbourhood.)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/edward_ross-54d1fadebb.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>'A Simple Knot' by Edward Ross\u003C/i> \\r\n\\r\nI always look forward to seeing the latest thing \u003Ca href=\"http://mycardboardlife.com/\">Philippa Rice\u003C/a> comes up with. Her love of craft combines an almost child-like love of cutting things up with a gentle but sophisticated \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metafiction\">metafictive\u003C/a> humour. I wouldn't be at all surprised if she's snapped up soon by a good agent and/or publisher, if she hasn't been already.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/rice_hotguide-3430f56c7b.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>'Doctor Bandaid's Hot Guide to Romance' by Philippa Rice\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/rice_cardboardlife-4e1182357d.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>'Cardboard Colin & Paper Pauline' by Philippa Rice\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\nAnother supremely nice guy of comics, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.joedecie.com/\">Joe Decie\u003C/a>. He's been doing some great things with washes lately, and I always love his lettering.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/joe_decie-4d9d014799.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>'Grandpa Al', 'Pissing in the Wind' and 'The Rozbity Letter' by Joe Decie\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\nThis is a dreadfully blurry photo, but I recently met \u003Ca href=\"http://www.mildtarantula.com/\">Josceline Fenton\u003C/a> at London's monthly \u003Ca href=\"http://www.comicafestival.com/index.php/site/news/comica_social_club/\">Comica Social Club\u003C/a>. But today was the first time I saw her work, some really lovely stuff.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/mcm_oct10c_22-57ed5b92f1.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>From left: Josceline Fenton, Josceline's sister and \u003Ca href=\"http://www.dreamtripper.net/\">Tammy Taylor\u003C/a>\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/joceline_fenton1-d6edb44d97.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>'Hemlock' by Josceline Fenton\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/joceline_fenton2-4566b7dcd8.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>'Hemlock' by Josceline Fenton\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/adam_cadwell-bfa5b07a31.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>'The Everyday: Collection Four' by \u003Ca href=\"http://theeveryday.adamcadwell.com/\">Adam Cadwell\u003C/a>\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\nI've been getting to know a bit of \u003Ca href=\"http://spoonbard.com\">Paul Duffield\u003C/a>'s work because he's the partner of Kate Brown, creator of the DFC Library's \u003Ca href=\"http://www.davidficklingbooks.co.uk/davidficklingbooks.asp?ean=9780385618274\">\u003Ci>Spider Moon\u003C/i>\u003C/a>. They both have their own ways of working, but the resemblances are striking.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/paul_duffield-6770928a8e.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>'Signal' by Paul Duffield\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\nI stopped by \u003Ca href=\"http://www.sweatdrop.com\">Sweatdrop Studios\u003C/a>' tables and picked up a copy of \u003Ci>Telling Tales\u003C/i>, a collection of traditional fairytales in comics form by ten different members of the studio collective. That's DFC colleague \u003Ca href=\"http://www.emmavieceli.com\">Emma Vieceli\u003C/a> on the left, one of the key organisers of Expo's Comics Village, along with her partner \u003Cb>Andrew Ruddick\u003C/b> (Pud), \u003Cb>Anna Pederson\u003C/b>, \u003Cb>Matthew Sheret\u003C/b> and \u003Cb>David Thomas\u003C/b>. Thanks so much for all the hard work you've done to make this autumn's Expo and so many earlier conventions a success!\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/mcm_oct10c_5-0b9599bc58.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>Emma Vieceli, \u003Ca href=\"http://tellnolies.com/\">Fehed Said\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"http://fayeyong.com\">Faye Yong\u003C/a> sign \u003Ca href=\"http://www.sweatdrop.com/shop/id77_Telling-Tales\">'Telling Tales'\u003C/a>\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/sweatdrop_tales-badae62086.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>'Telling Tales' by Sweatdrop Studios\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\nOne of the highlights of the show for Gary and me was meeting \u003Ca href=\"http://www.simonscat.com/about.html\">Simon Tofield\u003C/a>, creator of \u003Ca href=\"http://www.simonscat.com\">\u003Ci>Simon's Cat\u003C/a>\u003C/i>, and his studio mates. While we'd previously admired Simon's animations and comics, we're now hardcore fans after seeing what a kind, down-to-earth person he is, and seeing hardworking, friendly vibe he shares with his team, who work together from a studio in Islington (central London). Simon's had huge success with his work, but this was only his second convention after \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/333325.html\">BICS\u003C/a> a couple weeks ago, and he seemed hugely pleased to be meeting other people in comics. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/mcm_oct10c_8-338a7d120e.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/mcm_oct10c_3-13cfd9d674.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>Simon Tofield with my 'Morris the Mankiest Monster', yay!\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\nOverall, MCM Expo was a lot of fun. Here's \u003Ca href=\"http://www.philipspence.com/\">Philip Spense\u003C/a> with Cosplay Bingo.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/mcm_oct10c_6-8e25af7e58.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/mcm_oct10c_19-aab0abb189.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/mcm_oct10c_10-b5585f2dd3.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/mcm_oct10c_4-a3231568c9.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/mcm_oct10c_14-41b3fcd024.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nConventions are always more jolly when \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Erskine\">Gary Erskine\u003C/a> and his fabulous fiancée Mhairi come along. Not only is Mhairi a cool Scottish biker chick, but she's a medical expert on parasitical illnesses, so she can tell all sorts of real-life stories to make your blood curdle.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/mcm_oct10c_13-f19a7d54c2.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI snapped a photo from my table of this steampunk visitor having a good long look at Neill Cameron's \u003Ca href=\"http://www.neillcameron.com/A_to_Z.html\">A-Z of Awesomeness\u003C/a> poster.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/mcm_oct10c_21-2aab6fc84b.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/mcm_oct10c_20-94c05fed55.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>One of Neill's dedication drawings... I peeked over his shoulder a lot.\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\nI just want to finish by posting a comment left after yesterday's entry, which is such a great visitor write-up of the Expo experience. (And yes, they're dealing with tens of thousands of guests, so the ticket queues are horrendously long; I highly advise booking tickets before arriving at Expo next spring!)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cb>\u003Ci>We came to ExCel yesterday hoping to get to see all the DFC people but arrived to be told that the queue for tickets was 2 hours long! Instead of spending two hours queuing we spent that time wandering the corridors of ExCel (a place we're pretty familiar with as it's in our borough and they have a week of summer school there for kids each year - including mural art) and picknicking on the grass. I have to say that it was fantastic and strangely moving. My kids were playing spot the costume (they are huge Pokemon and Studio Ghibli fans) and as someone who sews I couldn't get over the craftsmanship. And to see those young people, at least some of whom are probably the subject of bullying and isolation in everyday life glorying in their appearance and being celebrated by others was just magic. Next time round we'll pre-book and my middle child (age 11) is already starting to think of a costume.\u003C/b>\\r\n\\r\nWill now have to put in a big order for all the DFC books we were intending to buy.\\r\n\\r\nBest wishes, Joan\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\nThanks for the comment, Joan! Sorry you couldn't get in, but I'm glad you all stuck around to see all the other stuff going on. I love it that, even if kids can't afford tickets for the main hall, there's still enough of a buzz around the place to make it worthwhile just turning up and hanging out in the huge corridor and parading on the waterfront landing. Good times.\\r\n\\r\nVery tired. And a sore head from the drums. But if I hadn't blogged now, it would've never happened.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/338552.html\">Photos from Day 1\u003C/a>\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/338890.html\">Photos from Day 2\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ci>Edit:\u003C/i> Wow! The latest word in from Emma and the MCM Expo organisers is that we had \u003Cb>46,400\u003C/b> attendees! Largest Expo yet!!","2010-11-01T00:13:00.000Z","mcm-expo-day-3-round-up",[],"mcm expo, day 3 round-up",1776628719014]