[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-mcm-expo-day-two":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"\u003Ca href=\"http://s92.photobucket.com/albums/l27/jabberworks/uploads2010/?action=view&current=b282504a.pbw\">Costume slideshow!\u003C/a>\\r\n\u003Cimg style=\"visibility:hidden;width:0px;height:0px;\" border=\"0\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" src=\"http://counters.gigya.com/wildfire/IMP/CXNID=2000002.11NXC/bHQ9MTI3NTM*MzIxOTA4MSZwdD*xMjc1MzQzMjc5NzgxJnA9Mzg2MzYxJmQ9Jm49bGl2ZWpvdXJuYWwmZz*xJm9mPTA=.gif\">\u003Cdiv style=\"width:640px; text-align: left;\">\u003Clj-embed id=\"189\"/>\\r\n\\r\nThis weekend \u003Ca href=\"http://fleecestation.co.uk\">The Fleece Station\u003C/a> well and truly barnstormed \u003Ca href=\"http://londonexpo.com/\">London MCM Expo\u003C/a>. Here's our studio: me, Ellen Lindner, Lauren O'Farrell and Gary Northfield:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/mcmexpo4-9c77f8f401.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nA huge thanks and congratulations to \u003Ca href=\"http://www.emmavieceli.com/\">Emma Vieceli\u003C/a>, Swedish Anna, Pud and all the organisers for putting together such a great festival! The word's just in that this was the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.otakunews.com/article.php?story=1625\">most successful Expo yet, pulling in more than 41,000 people!\u003C/a> I spent a lot of time popping  back and forth between The Fleece Station and \u003Ca href=\"http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2010/return-of-the-dfc-library-style/\">The DFC Library\u003C/a> stands, where several of the DFC creators were drawing and generally doing their magic. (You can see \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/301899.html\">yesterday's photos here\u003C/a>.) \\r\n\\r\n\u003C!--more Loads more  photos under the cut!-->\\r\nHere are \u003Ca href=\"http://www.daveshelton.com\">Dave Shelton\u003C/a> (creator of \u003Ci>Good Dog, Bad Dog\u003C/i>), \u003Ca href=\"http://aqwatic.blogspot.com/\">John Aggs\u003C/a> (artist of Philip Pullman's \u003Ci>John Blake\u003C/i>, creator of \u003Ci>Robot Girl\u003C/i> and writer of \u003Ci>The Boss\u003C/i>, all of which appeared in the original DFC weekly magazine), me and a fabulous DFC fan named Agnes. (I ditched the pink wig for the second day.)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/mcmexpo70-897bea90e0.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nHere's the big drawing John made of Robot Girl:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/mcmexpo78-30edf39b1a.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nVisitor \u003Ca href=\"http://www.rianhughes.com\">Rian Hughes\u003C/a>, Dave Shelton and \u003Ca href=\"http://www.fumboo.com/\">Jamie Smart\u003C/a>, creator of \u003Ci>Fish-head Steve\u003C/i> in the DFC, and about a zillion other projects including \u003Ci>Desperate Dan\u003C/i> in \u003Ci>The Dandy\u003C/i> and an upcoming book with Scholastic about a little ball of white fluff named Chaffy.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/mcmexpo80-913d65f7a2.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nThanks, Jamie, for taking this picture of me taking part in a game of on-stage Pictionary, writers against artists. Unfortunately, the artists lost, but \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Erskine\">Gary Erskine\u003C/a> did a fine split-second drawing of Captain America. (Other panel members included \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Furth\">Robin Furth\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.svetlania.com/about.shtml\">Svetlana Chmakova\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.templesmith.com/faze3/\">Ben Templesmith\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kieron_Gillen\">Kieron Gillen\u003C/a> and a bunch of other people I would know if I wasn't so clueless about superhero comics.) \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/mcmexpo81-1ced4645a2.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nHere's the DFC Library's \u003Ci>Mezolith\u003C/i> artist \u003Ca href=\"http://www.adambrockbank.com/\">Adam Brockbank\u003C/a> signing, with its writer \u003Ca href=\"http://www.crickcrackclub.com/\">Ben Haggarty\u003C/a> in the the background.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/mcmexpo42-d56f887c15.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nFormer V&A comic-artist-in-residence \u003Ca href=\"http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/prints_books/karen-rubins/index.html\">Karen Rubins\u003C/a> lounges in one of the stall bean bags and pinches off John's face.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/mcmexpo63-7d595b106e.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nLouise Stothard shows off the lovely DFC Library books, with \u003Ci>Mo-bot High\u003C/i>'s \u003Ca href=\"http://www.neillcameron.com/\">Neill Cameron\u003C/a> drawing behind her:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/mcmexpo41-6be7521d8d.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nSeveral visitors were fans of my \u003Ca href=\"http://www.jabberworks.co.uk/new/vernlettuce-book.html\">\u003Ci>Vern and Lettuce\u003C/i>\u003C/a>, which made me super pleased.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/mcmexpo37-8144d63b8d.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nHere's one of my fave convention compadres, \u003Cb>Gary Erskine\u003C/b>, with 17-year-old comics creator \u003Cb>Katja Hammond\u003C/b> and her book, \u003Ci>The Shadow Generation\u003C/i>. \\r\n\u003Ci>Edit:\u003C/i> Gary writes: \u003Ci>The lovely and talented Katja Hammond at London MCM. She writes and draws her\\r\nown manga style comic books. Always a delight to meet her and her dad at the\\r\nevent. Can't wait for the next part of the story.\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/mcmexpo25-1116964a17.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI couldn't resist a comic and a mighty-fine tea towel by \u003Ca href=\"http://www.scarygoround.com/\">John Allison\u003C/a>.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/mcmexpo67-21eea1b273.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI couldn't resist buying a Ming doll from \u003Ca href=\"http://www.chibi-friends.com/home.php\">Declan Talbert\u003C/a>.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/mcmexpo23-df163c1ba7.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nOur fab neighbour, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.neptunefactory.com/pages/home.html\">Jenika Ioffreda\u003C/a>. You can read a review of her latest book, \u003Ci>Vampire Free Style\u003C/i>, on the \u003Ca href=\"http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2010/vampire-free-style-5-a-lovely-gothic-romance-comes-together-nicely/\">FPI blog here\u003C/a>. She had to suffer the indignity of a group of self-appointed \u003Ci>Twilight\u003C/i> Bashers coming round to tell her off for making something about vampires. (They'd been earnestly campaigning earlier outside with big signs that read \u003Ci>Twilight Sucks\u003C/i>.)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/mcmexpo62-4b667c4c85.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nFPI also \u003Ca href=\"http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2010/my-cardboard-lifes-week-of-guest-strips/\">reviewed\u003C/a> \u003Ci>My Cardboard Life\u003C/i> by \u003Ca href=\"http://mycardboardlife.com/\">Phillipa Rice\u003C/a>, and Dave Shelton came by with a stack of them he'd bought. Then Lauren bought the whole series, too.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/mcmexpo64-753f1ea2c9.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nThe ever-marvelous Chichester Harbour boat captain and brilliant comic creator \u003Ca href=\"http://warwickjohnsoncadwell.blogspot.com/\">Warwick Johnson Cadwell\u003C/a>.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/mcmexpo48-841ca8594c.jpg\">","2010-05-31T22:33:00.000Z","mcm-expo-day-two",[],"mcm expo: day two!",1776628718278]