[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-nice-but-nuts":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Today's morning sketch is dedicated to \u003Ca href=\"http://chamonkee.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">chamonkee\u003C/a>, who spent 20 minutes trying to work out from my \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/118755.html\">very rough comic yesterday\u003C/a> what 'butt nuts' were.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/chamonkee1-e59bd12d1c.gif\">\\r\n\\r\nSo fitting, my neighbour David just e-mailed a photo he took in 1982 of a comics stall in China's Sichuan province. Cool, hey?\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/sichuancomix82-ec4d2d2e0d.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd I've just been sorting through my \u003Cb>loot from Caption\u003C/b>, here it is! \\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/captionloot08-d6f8a9b765.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI had to buy two copies of the brilliant little \u003Ci>Curtis and Terrorist\u003C/i> comic with the hand-drawn covers by \u003Ca href=\"http://www.modernmonstrosity.co.uk\">Oliver Lambden\u003C/a>; now I'm wishing I'd bought a couple more for gifts. \u003Ci>Weekend Friends\u003C/i> brings together work by Oli Smith and Sean Azzopardi from \u003Ca href=\"http://londonundergroundcomics.com\">London Underground Comics\u003C/a>, Oliver Lamden and \u003Ca href=\"http://www.monkeysmightpuke.com\">Dan Lester\u003C/a>. Someone called 'Peet!' made the \u003Ci>Fume!\u003C/i> comic, here's the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.crazypantsmag.co.uk\">crazypants website\u003C/a>. The \u003Ca href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/Cinnamon/_/Cakes+and+Pies\"> Cinnamon\u003C/a> CD covers and books - \u003Ci>Rumble Strip, Count Milkula,\u003C/i> and \u003Ci>Sugar Buzz\u003C/i> - are by \u003Ca href=\"http://www.thedfc.co.uk/writers-artists/woodrow-phoenix/\">DFC\u003C/a> colleague \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Phoenix\">Woodrow Phoenix\u003C/a>, and the two comics called \u003Ci>The Sea\u003C/i> are by Will Kirkby, or \u003Ca href=\"http://chamonkee.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">chamonkee\u003C/a>.\\r\n\\r\nAnd to finish, these days \u003Ca href=\"http://nedroidcomics.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">nedroidcomics\u003C/a> are leaving me helpless on the floor. (For example, \u003Ca href=\"http://nedroidcomics.livejournal.com/159849.html\">this one\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"http://nedroidcomics.livejournal.com/159146.html\">this one\u003C/a> and \u003Ca href=\"http://nedroidcomics.livejournal.com/153835.html\">oh, this one\u003C/a>.)","2008-08-12T08:34:00.000Z","nice-but-nuts",[],"nice but nuts",1776628723236]