[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-poor-derek":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"This picture is for fellow \u003Ca href=\"http://www.thedfc.co.uk/writers-artists/gary-northfield/\">DFC\u003C/a> contributor \u003Ca href=\"http://www.garynorthfield.co.uk\">Gary Northfield\u003C/a>, who is feeling under the weather.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/derek_getwell-c7047ed2f2.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nIt started out as an innocent get well card, but I got a bad case of the giggles when Vern started looking like he was enjoying his ministering angel role a bit too much, and I wasn't sure into which end of Derek he'd just stuck the thermometer. \\r\n...Get well soon, Gary! Derek can't take too much more of this.\\r\n\\r\nAnd please come see \u003Cb>Gary, me, John Aggs, Patrice Aggs, Adam Brockbank, David Ashford, Steve Holland and David Roach\u003C/b> give a panel talk at the \u003Cb>ICA on 23 November\u003C/b>. \u003Ca href=\"http://www.ica.org.uk/Great%20British%20Comics%3A%20Past%2C%20Present%20%2B%20Future+18414.twl\">Book your tickets here!\u003C/a> I am actually quite nervous about it, so please come be a friendly face and help me stagger to the ICA refreshment unit afterward.\\r\n\\r\n...Unless, of course, you are going to the \u003Ca href=\"http://britishscbwi.org/conference2008/index.htm\">SCBWI Writers & Illustrators conference\u003C/a> that same weekend in \u003Cb>Winchester, 22-23 Nov\u003C/b>, where I'm doing a workshop on Saturday with \u003Ca href=\"http://britishscbwi.org/conference2008/faculty_layn.htm\">Layn Marlow\u003C/a> on picture book layout, and my lovely DFC editor \u003Ca href=\"http://britishscbwi.org/conference2008/faculty_ben.htm\">Ben Sharpe\u003C/a> is also speaking on a panel. (If you haven't signed up for at least one of these two things, what on earth are you possibly doing?)\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://britishscbwi.org/conference2008/index.htm\">Book here!\u003C/a>","2008-11-01T15:06:00.000Z","poor-derek",[],"poor derek",1776628723815]