[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-monster-competition-winner":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Before I head off to Dublin tomorrow morning, I need to announce the winner of Birmingham's 'Make your own Monster' contest, held at the launch of \u003Ci>Morris the Mankiest Monster\u003C/i>. The prize goes to...\\r\n\u003Cb>\u003Cfont size=\"3\">Ezekiel Arthur Norris Bloomfield!\u003C/font>\u003C/b>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/ezekiel_monster-5fb3292225.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nThe submissions were brilliant, but the clincher was the story Ezekiel enterprisingly wrote onto the back of his \u003Ci>Ghost Killer\u003C/i> monster: \\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/ezekiel_story-327405a547.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cb>\u003Ci>When Ghost Killer was alive, he used to hunt for beasts until some hunters came and killed him! He now haunts the world and kills ghosts and hunters.\u003C/i>\u003C/b> ...Excellent. Congratulations, Ezekiel!\\r\n\\r\nIf you're in \u003Cb>Dublin\u003C/b> this weekend for the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.childrensbooksireland.ie/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=89&Itemid=176\">Children's Book Festival\u003C/a> or \u003Ca href=\"http://www.irish24hourcomics.com\">Irish 24 Hour Comic Day\u003C/a>, do come make monsters with me! I'll be leading a workshop at the comic day main venue, the Central Hotel, \u003Cb>tomorrow (Saturday) at 5:30pm\u003C/b>, then I'll be doing a book signing (and might make some more monsters) at \u003Cb>Waterstone's, Jervis Street on Sunday from 2pm\u003C/b>, then hopefully go for drinks with \u003Ca href=\"http://ztoical.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">ztoical\u003C/a> (who will most likely be crashing after the tremendous amount of work she's put into organising the weekend). Then I'm doing a \u003Cb>Monday 11am-12:30 workshop at Easons bookshop\u003C/b>, then a \u003Cb>1:00 workshop at the Central Library\u003C/b>. Looking forward to going to Dublin, haven't been there since I went on a Ireland road trip when I was 18!\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/cliodhna_morris-4a8b1d3327.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nHa ha... did you see the Morris drawing by \u003Ca href=\"http://www.garenewing.co.uk/rainboworchid/\">Garen Ewing\u003C/a> in yesterday's comments? Too funny! \u003Cb>Garen, you rock\u003C/b>. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/garen_morris-b3fc006bb2.jpg\">","2009-10-16T09:35:00.000Z","monster-competition-winner",[],"monster competition winner!",1776628733433]