[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-our-new-book":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"\u003Cb>The SECRET IS OUT!\u003C/b> It's a great moment when the finest talents in British comics come together and creative sparks fly! \u003Cb>We have a new book, launching in November!\u003C/b>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://www.blankslatebooks.co.uk/our-books/nelson/\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/nelson_cover-767d541b84.jpg\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nThe book's called \u003Cb>Nelson\u003C/b>, about the life of a character we collaboratively invented named Nel Baker. Each of us took a year and created a few pages of her life, set in that year. (\u003Cb>I got 1973!\u003C/b>) So it's Nel's life from 1968 to the present in 260 pages of gorgeous full-colour comics. It's the first time I've made a published comic that isn't only about kids or animals, it's real-life, grown-up stuff. But no less fun, for that. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Ci>Click the pic to enlarge, then click again\u003C/i>\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://www.blankslatebooks.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Nelson-announcementb.jpg\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/Nelson_announcement-469845e4fe.jpg\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nIt was funny working with my friends as editors, \u003Cb>Rob Davis\u003C/b> and \u003Cb>Woodrow Phoenix\u003C/b>. (Here's \u003Ca href=\"http://dinlos.blogspot.com/2011/05/nelson.html\">Rob's blog post about it\u003C/a>.) And my studio mates \u003Cb>Ellen Lindner\u003C/b> and \u003Cb>Gary Northfield\u003C/b> took the years just before me, so there was a lot of passing things round the room and Nelson-related banter. \u003Ci>Woodrow did WHAT in 1969?! But I thought that was against the rules! Right, then I'm gonna do this....\u003C/i> Actually, the editors were really helpful, they sent me some period reference stuff to help me because, um, I don't remember 1973 in England very well. But I had a lot of fun pestering Gary, saying, \u003Ci>could such-and-such have happened in 1973?\u003C/i> And I did very useful research, such as watching \u003Ci>Made in Dagenham\u003C/i>.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/nelson_anthology_sarah-bce4b60aee.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>One of my panels in Nelson. Sparks! Where will it go?\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\nA fab comics publisher called \u003Ca href=\"http://www.blankslatebooks.co.uk/our-books/nelson/\">Blank Slate\u003C/a> is publishing it, and all the profits from the first edition will go a homelessness charity called Shelter. You'll recognise a lot of names you've read on my blog in recent years, including DFC chums \u003Cb>Jamie Smart\u003C/b> (you wouldn't believe HOW FAST he turned out his full-colour pages! Gary, Ellen and I went, \u003Ci>wha....?!\u003C/i> because he finished before we even started and they looked so fabulous), \u003Cb>Simone Lia\u003C/b>, \u003Cb>Kate Brown, Dave Shelton, Garen Ewing, Faz Choudhury\u003C/b> and... well, I could go on and on with the amazing line-up, but you can \u003Ca href=\"http://www.blankslatebooks.co.uk/our-books/nelson/\">go read all about Nelson on Blank Slate's blog!\u003C/a> (And thanks to illustrator Christopher Sharrock for flagging the new post!)","2011-05-06T10:54:00.000Z","our-new-book",[],"our new book!!",1776628720137]