[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-overcaffeinated-cat-drawings":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Two more drawings from last week when I was feeling a bit fragile. (And yes, I'll be fine, which my mother wanted to know when she saw yesterday's two worried cat drawings.) I sometimes have this way of dealing with stress and melancholiness by staying up late and letting it build up to something very melodramatic... \u003Ci>SO\u003C/i> over-the-top theatrical that I have to draw it, and then I make myself laugh at how stupid I'm being.\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/cat_night_overcaffeinated-7e8ad434c5.jpg\">\\r\nThat's a cat who shouldn't have drunk all those cups of coffee so late in the day. I used to be able to drink up to two pots of coffee before bed and sleep like a log. Weird, how my body won't let me do that anymore. But I could still drink two pots of tea and be fine.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/cat_night_tired-2e81b3bd59.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nHey, some cheery news! At Thought Bubble comics festival in Leeds last weekend, the \u003Ca href=\"http://britishcomicawards.com/winners-2012/\">British Comic Awards were announced\u003C/a>, and \u003Cb>our \u003Ci>NELSON\u003C/i> book scooped this year's prize for Best Book!\u003C/b> Hurrah!!! Thank you to our lovely publisher, \u003Cb>Kenny Penman\u003C/b> at Blank Slate, our editors \u003Cb>Rob Davis\u003C/b> and \u003Cb>Woodrow Phoenix\u003C/b>, and the \u003Cb>54 creators\u003C/b> who made it happen. If you haven't read \u003Ci>NELSON\u003C/i> yet, do get a copy, it's a great read. (\u003Ca href=\"http://www.blankslatebooks.co.uk/our-books/nelson/\">Details on the Blank Slate website\u003C/a>.) I'm also a huge fan of the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.nobrow.net/category/products/childrens-books\">Hilda books\u003C/a> by \u003Cb>Luke Pearson\u003C/b>, so get your hands on those, too.\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://britishcomicawards.com/winners-2012/\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/british_comic_awards-08dec30be2.jpg\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nAnd here are four of the \u003Ci>NELSON\u003C/i> creators! The four Fleece Officers briefly reunited for bubble tea. Our studio mate Ellen has moved back to New York (see her Brooklyn studio \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/516926.html\">here\u003C/a>) but she came to visit for Thought Bubble and the launch of \u003Ca href=\"http://strumpetcomic.com/\">\u003Ci>The Strumpet\u003C/a>\u003C/i>, which she co-edits. Ellen, Gary and I all drew strips in NELSON and Lauren knitted a mini Nel Baker for the launch party (see her \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/442155.html\">here\u003C/a>!). Lauren's been busy with loads of fabulous projects lately, including a knitted version of Sarah Lund from \u003Ci>The Killing\u003C/i> and spending last week in Indonesia with Save the Children working the Craftivist Jigsaw Project. (\u003Ca href=\"http://www.whodunnknit.com/\">Find out more over on her blog!\u003C/a>)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/fleece_officers-db9a9aefd1.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>\u003Ca href=\"http://fleecestation.co.uk/\">The Fleece Station\u003C/a>'s Ellen Lindner, Lauren O'Farrell, Gary Northfield and me at Deptford's \u003Ca href=\"http://panda-panda.co.uk/\">Panda Panda\u003C/a> cafe\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003C!--more Click here for a couple more photos under the cut!-->\\r\nI was really sad not to be able to go to Thought Bubble; I definitely want to go next year. Here's the Vern that \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/346149.html\">Rick Eades gave me there last time\u003C/a>. Vern loved yesterday's sunset and scribbled lots of bad poetry and whuffled on his sousaphone while I worked on a book that doesn't include him in it. (He's slightly jealous.) \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/fleecestation_vern_sunset-8f5dae392e.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd a peek at Deptford Market, where my studio mates and I spotted Paddington Bear on our way to lunch. (Hello, Paddington!) He was lying face down in the rubble with his hat off, so I spruced him up a bit. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/paddington_bear_deptford-a59e7c5ea8.jpg\">","2012-11-22T07:39:00.000Z","overcaffeinated-cat-drawings",[],"overcaffeinated cat drawings",1776628724456]