[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-posy-simmonds-at-laydeez-do-comics":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/posy_laydeez4-c7f8ab40e2.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nLast night I went to a presentation by one of my all-time favourite comics and picture book heroes, \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posy_Simmonds\">Posy Simmonds\u003C/a>. As a speaker, she's brilliant actress in being able to do all the different voices and accents of her characters! She had us all in stitches with her posh pre-war schoolgirl, midwest American academic, chavvy teenager on a bus, prententious middle-aged French writer, and obnoxious French glamazon. \\r\n\\r\nThese are some of my doodly notes. Posy's work played a huge part of bringing me back to comics as something I could connect with and see as a remarkable storytelling medium.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/posy_laydeez1-961bfb2127.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nPosy brought along two of her wonderful sketchbooks and let us look through.\\r\n\u003C!--more Lots more write-up and pics under the cut!-->\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/posy_laydeez7-4d2024d713.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/posy_laydeez8-b0569b31a5.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://rosecestlavie.blogspot.com/\">Rosie West\u003C/a> and Megan Donnolley, and one of the characters in the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1486190/\">film adaptation\u003C/a> of Posy's \u003Ci>Tamara Drewe\u003C/i>. (\u003Ci>'I play a small role, a techno geek.'\u003C/i>)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/posy_laydeez6-5ea1451241.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nSome super lovely laydeez: \u003Ca href=\"http://www.karenrubins.com\">Karen Rubins\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.fabtoons.com/\">Francesca Cassavetti\u003C/a> and \u003Ca href=\"http://itsamouse.com/gas/LauraHowell/\">Laura Howell\u003C/a>.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/posy_laydeez5-07c5cc5043.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI was very interested when Posy compared writing a graphic novel with writing a serialised strip. Before \u003Ci>Tamara Drewe\u003C/i> was a book, it \u003Ca href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/series/tamara-drewe\">ran in \u003Ci>The Guardian\u003C/i>\u003C/a>, so Posy had the pressure of a weekly deadline, and didn't know how the story was going to end. (That's just like my work on \u003Ca href=\"http://www.jabberworks.co.uk/vernlettuce-book.php\">\u003Ci>Vern and Lettuce\u003C/i>\u003C/a>, which started out as a weekly strip in \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_DFC\">The DFC\u003C/a> - also briefly \u003Ca href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/feb/21/vern-and-lettuce\">running in \u003Ci>The Guardian\u003C/i>\u003C/a> - and I had no idea what was going to happen.) Posy said that in many ways, writing a graphic novel has much more freedom because she can digress more from the plot, she doesn't have constantly to remind readers about what's gone before, she can include more silent pages, and she doesn't need as many cliffhangers. But working on a serial, often when she's under pressure to be quick and decisive to meet the deadline, wonderful creative things happen, which might not have happened otherwise. \\r\n\\r\nI could really identify with this. Having a weekly deadline was marvelous training for me in making comics; because it was really only one page I had to think about at a time, I could focus on making that one page really work, and feel utter relief when I'd finished it. Each page got a burst of its own energy that perhaps it wouldn't have had if I'd been going for the long slog. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/posy_laydeez2-d62b56507a.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/posy_laydeez3-f90730f05f.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd you're in for a treat, because the event's \u003Cb>OFFICIAL BLOGGER\u003C/b> - my \u003Ca href=\"http://www.fleecestation.co.uk/\">studio\u003C/a> mate \u003Ca href=\"http//www.littlewhitebird.com\">Ellen Lindner\u003C/a> - will be posting her write-up soon on the \u003Ca href=\"http://laydeezdocomics.blogspot.com/\">Laydeez Do Comics blog\u003C/a>! And be sure to keep an eye on the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.nikjep.demon.co.uk/layindex.htm\">Laydeez Do Comics website\u003C/a> for monthly events. Thanks so much to \u003Ca href=\"http://www.streetenillustration.com/\">Nicola Streeten\u003C/a> and \u003Ca href=\"http://www.sarahlightman.com/\">Sarah Lightman\u003C/a> for hosting!\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ci>Edit:\u003C/i> \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/tag/simmonds\">Click here\u003C/a> to see other blog posts I've made about Posy Simmonds.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/posy_laydeez9-2cd3c99e79.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>Screen goddess Ellen Lindner\u003C/i>","2010-12-14T12:52:00.000Z","posy-simmonds-at-laydeez-do-comics",[],"posy simmonds at laydeez do comics",1776628719341]