[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-monsterville-cocktail-party-and-more-silly-making-with-wigs":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Last night we had what was supposedly a more grown-up kind of party at \u003Ca href=\"http://www.discover.org.uk/whatson/event/welcome_to_monsterville/\">Monsterville\u003C/a>, in Stratford's \u003Ca href=\"http://www.discover.org.uk/\">Discover Children's Story Centre\u003C/a>, with five different amazing cocktails (including the Beauty & Beast, and the Zombie), but the trustees and other adults ran around just like the kids, trying on wigs and generally mucking about. In fact, we even had a few children present, here I am with the Cross girls in the monster beauty salon. Don't they look lovely?\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/monsterville_cocktails_9-a508cef428.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nIt was great seeing \u003Ca href=\"http://www.edvere.com\">Ed Vere\u003C/a> and \u003Ca href=\"http://www.neallayton.com\">Neal Layton\u003C/a> again, my fellow Monsterville illustrators. We were reminiscing about our basic brief for the job: \u003Ci>a big room, and something to do with monsters\u003C/i>. That is a cool brief. And so much fun coming up with the idea of a monster village. (You can see previous posts, drawings and photos if you \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/tag/monsterville\">click here and scroll way down\u003C/a>.)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/monsterville_cocktails_4-9d6f545a03.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003C!--more Click here for lots more photos under the cut!-->\\r\nHere's my lovely bewigged agent, \u003Ca href=\"http://unitedagents.co.uk/jodie-marsh\">Jodie Marsh\u003C/a>!\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/monsterville_cocktails_8-20161be086.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nThis was the first time Stuart had seen Monsterville, so I had fun showing it off.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/monsterville_cocktails_12-32e506b465.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nFab comics creator, writer and illustrator \u003Ca href=\"http://unitedagents.co.uk/ros-asquith#profile-3\">Ros Asquith\u003C/a>:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/monsterville_cocktails_6-7cb2b94d16.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI'd slipped in a little reference to \u003Ca href=\"http://www.alexmilway.com/\">Alex Milway\u003C/a>'s yeti books, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.mythical9th.com/\">The Mystical 9th Division\u003C/a>, so here he is, posing next to the yeti sign with his new book, \u003Cb>\u003Ci>The Magma Conspiracy\u003C/i>\u003C/b>, launching July 7th. The book is part chapter book, part comic, and Alex's drawings just get better and better. (He trained as a landscape painter, even though he's working now mostly as a writer!) Those are editor \u003Cb>Lucy Ingram\u003C/b> and designer \u003Cb>Ben Norland\u003C/b> from Walker Books next to him.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/monsterville_cocktails_3-e445248106.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nHere's my amazing editor friend \u003Cb>Bridget Hannigan\u003C/b>, who'd come down from Cambridge for the party. (Isn't that a great dress she's wearing?)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/monsterville_cocktails_5-420fc0f8d2.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nBewigged Bridget:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/monsterville_cocktails_10-e11bf6454a.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://clubs-kids.scholastic.co.uk/authors/1477\">Axel Scheffler\u003C/a>, looking dapper in eyeballs. (He's probably Britain's most beloved monster creator, for his Gruffalo.) \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/monsterville_cocktails_7-d350b6f214.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nBen Norland and writer \u003Ca href=\"http://www.whoatemybrain.com/\">Nick Cross\u003C/a>:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/monsterville_cocktails_11-666a5d0072.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cb>Emma Halford\u003C/b> and \u003Cb>Rosie Pike\u003C/b>, librarians at Bishop's Stortford College. (Rosie organised the \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/373399.html\">Bishop's Stortford Festival of Literature\u003C/a> which awarded \u003Ci>Morris the Mankiest Monster\u003C/i> its Picture Book Award in 2010.)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/monsterville_cocktails_2-9f85cdebbb.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://www.woodrowphoenix.co.uk/\">Woodrow Phoenix\u003C/a> with ice cream monster horns. (You might recognise Woodrow's nam from the dedication in \u003Ci>When Titus Took the Train\u003C/i>; Woodrow's taught me a lot about how to get on with work when I hit a glitch.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/monsterville_cocktails_16-9fadd44568.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nStyling!\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/monsterville_cocktails_13-05a7446b7f.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cb>Tish Francis\u003C/b>, co-director of Oxford's \u003Ca href=\"http://www.storymuseum.org.uk/the-story-museum\">Story Museum\u003C/a>:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/monsterville_cocktails_1-94103c8d7d.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nMy website's designer, artist \u003Ca href=\"http://www.hammerheadrabbits.com\">Dan Fone\u003C/a>:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/monsterville_cocktails_14-14c4b34f73.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nOf course, Bridget and I couldn't resist clambering around the Mouth of Doom (the closet thing Monsterville has to Soho):\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/monsterville_cocktails_17-86333d4f6b.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nWoodrow and Bridget, looking luminescent:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/monsterville_cocktails_18-2ee032f2ae.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nThanks so much to everyone who came along, particularly those who came from fairly long distances! And thanks to the team at the Discover Centre, for such a wonderful evening. (Find out more about \u003Ca href=\"http://www.discover.org.uk/whatson/event/welcome_to_monsterville/\">Monsterville on their website\u003C/a>.","2011-06-10T07:55:00.000Z","monsterville-cocktail-party-and-more-silly-making-with-wigs",[],"monsterville cocktail party and more silly-making with wigs",1776628720316]