[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-my-fairy-can-weld":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"For today's morning sketch, I drew a Flashdance fairy for Oxford's \u003Ca href=\"http://caption.org/2/\">Caption\u003C/a> festival, where the theme is 'away with the fairies'. Mark your diaries for this weekend, \u003Cb>15 - 16 Aug\u003C/b>. On the Sunday, I'm giving a talk on crossovers between comics and picture books, and opportunities for creators to work in both fields. And I'm also on a panel with comics journalist \u003Ca href=\"http://matthewbadhamwriter.blogspot.com/\">Matt Badham\u003C/a> on the Saturday. \u003Ca href=\"http://caption.org/2/?q=node/16\">(...You, too, can draw a fairy for the Caption exhibition and auction!)\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/welding_fairy-bbc3242ff2.gif\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd the other diary date is coming up soon! \u003Cb>\u003Cfont size=\"5\">Next Monday evening\u003C/font> (the 27th), near Brick Lane, I'm giving a presentation of some of my work, then starting off a book-club type discussion of Shaun Tan's \u003Ci>The Arrival\u003C/i>.\u003C/b> The event's sponsored by \u003Ca href=\"http://www.nikjep.demon.co.uk/layindex.htm\">Laydeez Do Comics\u003C/a>, but it's open to both guys and gals. Have a read of \u003Ci>The Arrival\u003C/i>, bring it along if you're able, and see you from 6:30-8:30 at the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.nikjep.demon.co.uk/laywhere.htm\">Rag Factory\u003C/a>! ... \u003Cb>I'm really nervous no-one will turn up, please come along and support me!\u003C/b> :-)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://community.livejournal.com/mcintyre_events/\">(More details about events here.)\u003C/a>","2009-07-23T06:53:00.000Z","my-fairy-can-weld",[],"my fairy can weld",1776628732970]