[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-party-at-the-fleece-station-3":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Last night the \u003Ca href=\"http://fleecestation.co.uk\">Fleece Station\u003C/a> hosted a big shindig to celebrate \u003Ca href=\"http://fleecestation.co.uk/about/lauren-ofarrell/\">Lauren O'Farrell\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.littlewhitebird.com\">Ellen Lindner\u003C/a> ...and \u003Ca href=\"http://fleecestation.co.uk/about/gertrude-woolsworthy/\">Gertrude Woolsworthy\u003C/a>... moving into the studio. And it was \u003Ca href=\"http://darryl-cunningham.blogspot.com/\">Darryl Cunningham\u003C/a>'s 50th birthday as well! \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/fleecestn_17apr10_1-bbbe0b8176.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI don't do much baking (and almost never successfully), but I went and bought the biggest cake tin I could find on Deptford high street, and a little squeezy decorator thing with different nozzles and copied one of \u003Ca href=\"http://tallguywrites.livejournal.com/146600.html\">Darryl's comic panels\u003C/a> onto it. Not to be outdone, Stuart made brownies and our studio mate \u003Ca href=\"http://www.garynorthfield.co.uk\">Gary Northfield\u003C/a> bought a sheep mold and made a sheep cake:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/fleecestn_17apr10_3-c3637d7ac7.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003C!--more LOADS more photos here!-->\\r\nIt was great seeing so many friends and a few people I got to meet on the night, too. Here's \u003Ca href=\"http://dinlos.blogspot.com/\">Rob Davis\u003C/a>, whom I only knew as \u003Ca href=\"http://twitter.com/Robgog\">Robgog\u003C/a> on Twitter, and I'd loved his submission to the Observer competition, \u003Ca href=\"http://dinlos.blogspot.com/2009/10/and-winner-of-2009-observer-jonathan.html\">\u003Ci>How I Built my Father\u003C/i>\u003C/a>. He's sitting by the shipping containers in the courtyard with the DFC's \u003Ca href=\"http://fazchoudhury.blogspot.com/\">Faz Choudhury\u003C/a> and \u003Ca href=\"http://patriceaggs.com/\">Patrice Aggs\u003C/a>.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/fleecestn_17apr10_5-5a246634f9.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nHere's \u003Ca href=\"http://unitedagents.co.uk/jodie-marsh\">Jodie Marsh\u003C/a> from United Agents (the Icelandic volcano stranded \u003Ci>my\u003C/i> agent in Rome!) and fab illustrator \u003Ca href=\"http://www.jamielittler.co.uk/\">Jamie Littler\u003C/a>.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/fleecestn_17apr10_4-f77673541a.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://teganontoast.blogspot.com/\">Tegan on Toast\u003C/a> (who came with \u003Ca href=\"http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/contributor.jsp?id=10125\">Layn Marlow\u003C/a>) with \u003Ca href=\"http://www.fabtoons.com/\">Francesca Cassavetti\u003C/a> (and musician \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Members\">Nicky Tesco\u003C/a> from The Members in the background). Tegan cracked me up with her \u003Ca href=\"http://teganontoast.blogspot.com/2010/04/studio-partaaay.html\">blog post\u003C/a> about the party, and just as much with her \u003Ca href=\"http://teganontoast.blogspot.com/2010/04/dear-john.html\">review of the film \u003Ci>Dear John\u003C/i>\u003C/a>.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/fleecestn_17apr10_23-5f45ab60ce.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://www.kevhopgood.demon.co.uk/\">Kev Hopgood\u003C/a> and \u003Ca href=\"http://ztoical.daportfolio.com/about/\">Cliodhna Lyons\u003C/a> (\u003Ca href=\"http://ztoical.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">ztoical\u003C/a>):\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/fleecestn_17apr10_9-67cd8defa6.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://www.peterstanbury.com/\">Peter Stanbury\u003C/a> and \u003Ca href=\"http://www.wilburdawbarn.co.uk/\">Will Dawbarn\u003C/a> (\u003Ca href=\"http://wilburonline.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">wilburonline\u003C/a>, who created \u003Ci>Bodkin & the Bear\u003C/i> for the DFC). Peter has a new graphic design \u003Ca href=\"http://www.peterstanbury.com/\">website\u003C/a> and is also starting up \u003Cb>the Comica Social Club, a monthly London meeting-up session for comics people on the last Thursday of every month\u003C/b>. Do get in touch with him if you're interested in coming along! The first one's Thursday, 29 April, 6-9pm at the Royal Festival Hall Bar. Look out for the guy in the green fez.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/fleecestn_17apr10_7-e1c218c3f6.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cb>Stephen Betts\u003C/b> of comics translation website \u003Ca href=\"http://www.comixinflux.com/\">Comix Influx\u003C/a> and \u003Ca href=\"http://www.devicefonts.co.uk\">Rian Hughes\u003C/a>:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/fleecestn_17apr10_12-84fb6515b4.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nPolitical scientist \u003Ca href=\"http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/akanksha-awal/4/25/70\">Akanksha Awal\u003C/a> and the DFC's \u003Ca href=\"http://www.beaverandsteve.com/\">James Turner\u003C/a> (\u003Ca href=\"http://eruditebaboon.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">eruditebaboon\u003C/a>):\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l27/jabberworks/uploads2010/fleecestn_17apr10_15.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cb>Jenni Scott\u003C/b> (\u003Ca href=\"http://jinty.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">jinty\u003C/a>) and the DFC's \u003Ca href=\"http://www.emmavieceli.com/\">Emma Vieceli\u003C/a> (\u003Ca href=\"http://emmav.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">emmav\u003C/a>). Jenni and Emma both organise comics festivals: Jenni's on the team that set up \u003Ca href=\"http://caption.org/\">Caption\u003C/a> in Oxford. This year's festival's happening Sat, 31 July & Sun, 1st Aug, on the theme \u003Ci>Mad Science\u003C/i>. Emma organises the Comics Village at \u003Ca href=\"http://www.londonexpo.com/show_features/comic_village__expo.html\">MCM Expo\u003C/a> at London's ExCel Centre, that gets more than 30,000 mostly teenage cosplayers through its doors and, thanks to Emma, has a growing indie and small-press comics presence. This year the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.davidficklingbooks.co.uk/davidficklingbooks_dfclibrary.asp\">DFC Library\u003C/a> will have a big presence there, with its newly released graphic novels \u003Ci>Mezolith, Spider Moon\u003C/i>, and \u003Ci>Good Dog, Bad Dog\u003C/i>. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/fleecestn_17apr10_14-7096556558.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nWill Dawbarn and the DFC's \u003Ca href=\"http://www.myriadeditions.com/Rumble%20Strip\">Woodrow Phoenix\u003C/a>:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/fleecestn_17apr10_22-4699ec1dc9.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nEditorial director \u003Ca href=\"http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/bridget-hannigan/4/A3A/825\">Bridget Hannigan\u003C/a>, an actor named \u003Cb>Julie\u003C/b> and her partner \u003Cb>Richard Hayes\u003C/b> from the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.comicscreatorsguild.co.uk/\">Comics Creators Guild\u003C/a>.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/fleecestn_17apr10_21-e96b6d6aa6.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nDarryl opening Bridget's gift of a string of beautiful fabric festival flags (Woodrow, Bridget, Peter, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.paulgravett.com\">Paul Gravett\u003C/a> and Darryl):\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/fleecestn_17apr10_19-eafcdd1549.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nDutch comics artist \u003Ca href=\"http://maartjeschalkx.blogspot.com/\">Maartje Schalkx\u003C/a>:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/fleecestn_17apr10_16-ad819ca42c.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://www.milkkitten.com\">Tanya Meditzky\u003C/a> and Ellen:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/fleecestn_17apr10_25-04c85693d0.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cb>Richard Buck\u003C/b> (\u003Ca href=\"http://tortipede.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">tortipede\u003C/a>) sits in the studio granny chair examining David Wiesner's \u003Ci>The Three Pigs\u003C/i>:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/fleecestn_17apr10_10-441730b890.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nDarryl and Emma's husband, games programmer \u003Cb>Andrew Ruddick\u003C/b> (or \u003Ca href=\"http://twitter.com/VonPud\">Pud\u003C/a> - love the \u003Ci>Robots in Disguise\u003C/i> t-shirt!):\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/fleecestn_17apr10_11-b739a54624.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cb>Dave Mansfield\u003C/b> (\u003Ca href=\"http://cdave.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">cdave\u003C/a>) and partner:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/fleecestn_17apr10_17-9a015540b1.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://www.cartoonmuseum.org/\">The Cartoon Museum\u003C/a> had a good showing from \u003Ca href=\"http://twitter.com/alibob81\">Alison Brown\u003C/a> and \u003Ca href=\"http://www.hocus-baloney.com/\">Mark Stafford\u003C/a> (pictured with papaya):\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/fleecestn_17apr10_13-c4e8b114da.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nRob and Faz (and Woodrow):\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/fleecestn_17apr10_20-679bceb9d5.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nDarryl blowing out his candles (behind, photographer \u003Ca href=\"http://mondoagogo.com/blog/\">Anna Mondo\u003C/a> (\u003Ca href=\"http://mondoagogo.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">mondoagogo\u003C/a>):\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/fleecestn_17apr10_2-e33776720a.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cb>Gina Alnatt\u003C/b> (\u003Ca href=\"http://ginasketch.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">ginasketch\u003C/a>) and one of Gary's friends with a cool new robotic leg and matching 'Legless' t-shirt.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/fleecestn_17apr10_8-fd4d17e7db.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nMe with NUT magazine editor \u003Ca href=\"http://content.yudu.com/A1iq7t/TheTeacherDec09/resources/3.htm\">Elyssa Campbell-Barr\u003C/a> who came with her husband, creator of \u003Ci>The Rainbow Orchid\u003C/i>, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.garenewing.co.uk/rainboworchid/\">Garen Ewing\u003C/a>, (\u003Ca href=\"http://rainboworchid.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">rainboworchid\u003C/a>.) Don't forget to pre-order the \u003Ca href=\"http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2010/one-for-the-diary-rainbow-orchid-volume-2/\">second volume\u003C/a> in the 3-part \u003Ci>Rainbow Orchid\u003C/i> series, coming out on 5 July! \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/fleecestn_17apr10_18-48dd44e2b6.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nUnfortunately I didn't get any photos of Lauren, even though it was her party (boo, me!). And that's the only photo of me from the evening, I look totally demented. But all in all, a great party, hurrah! Thanks, everyone who came along and made it so much fun.\\r\n\\r\nSome more pics from \u003Ca href=\"http://seanazz.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">seanazz\u003C/a> \u003Ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/phatcatz/sets/72157623883832276/\">here on Flickr\u003C/a>.","2010-04-18T19:31:00.000Z","party-at-the-fleece-station-3",[],"party at the fleece station!",1776628732140]