[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-oxford-childrens-comic-festival-4-may-mark-your-diaries":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"\u003Ca href=\"http://www.thephoenixcomic.co.uk/tickets/\">Tickets on sale now!\u003C/a> I'm so excited about this upcoming \u003Ca href=\"http://www.thephoenixcomic.co.uk/tickets/\">Oxford Children's Comic Festival\u003C/a> on \u003Cb>Sat, 4 May\u003C/b> at Oxford's \u003Cb>Story Museum\u003C/b> - the first of its kind in the country! - and hoping it will turn into an \u003Cb>annual\u003C/b> big date for the diary. Live drawing, workshops, buying comics, selling comics, chatting with professional comics creators, making your own comics... a day doesn't get better than that, really.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/Oxford_childrens_comic_fest_zpsdc86ffdf-1ecb75aaa2.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nBook tickets and stay posted on \u003Ca href=\"http://www.thephoenixcomic.co.uk/tickets/\">The Phoenix Comic website\u003C/a>. I don't think they've released the entire workshop line-up yet, but I know that I'm doing a \u003Cb>Comics Jam session at noon\u003C/b>, and \u003Ca href=\"http://www.neillcameron.com/\">Neill Cameron\u003C/a> is doing a workshop before me. \u003Ci>('Cos he lives in Oxford and doesn't have to leave home as early!! Thanks for swapping times, Neill; I totally love you.)\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/sarahdave-d8edf32b20.gif\">\\r\n\\r\nIf you don't know what a \u003Cb>Comics Jam\u003C/b> is, it's the most fun-ever game to play with friends, at school, at the dinner table, in the pub, wherever. You can check out an all-Reeve-family Comics Jam I did at Christmas, \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/530974.html\">\u003Ci>Chaffy & the Attack of the Plum Duffs\u003C/i> - Read in full here)\u003C/a>...\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/530974.html\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/chaffy_jam_scan2-b3d52a73ec.jpg\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\n...and a more complicated one I did with \u003Ci>Monster and Chips\u003C/i> author \u003Ca href=\"http://scribblehound.com/\">David O'Connell\u003C/a>, called \u003Ca href=\"http://www.jabberworks.co.uk/airship/\">\u003Ci>Airship\u003C/i>\u003C/a>. (We took turns drawing the pages, with a one-hour time limit for each page. At the festival, it will move along much faster, more like five minutes a panel.) \\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://www.jabberworks.co.uk/airship/\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/airship06-f4ac135234.gif\" width=\"350\">\u003C/a>\u003Ca href=\"http://www.jabberworks.co.uk/airship/\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/airship_xtra-7235617f16.gif\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nDo \u003Ca href=\"http://www.thephoenixcomic.co.uk/tickets/\">book tickets\u003C/a> and come along, it's going to be fabulous! \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/phoenix_banner_neill_zps92913fc0-065b381527.jpg\">","2013-04-14T11:20:00.000Z","oxford-childrens-comic-festival-4-may-mark-your-diaries",[],"oxford children's comic festival: 4 may, mark your diaries!",1776628724998]