[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-rainbow-orchid-launch":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/garen1-f9e492a85f.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cb>Congratulations, Garen Ewing\u003C/b> on the launch of his new book! A lot of people have been anticipating this book for a long time, Garen's been working on it for years and years, and it's well worth the wait! You can read a \u003Ca href=\"http://scribblehound.com/?page_id=347\">great interview of Garen\u003C/a> by David O'Connell (creator of adventure webcomic \u003Ca href=\"http://www.tozocomic.com\">\u003Ci>Tozo\u003C/i>\u003C/a>) about the book and his foray into England's version of the Roaring Twenties. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/garen2-d3b51ef07c.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>David O'Connell, Garen and his wife, Elyssa\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\nEgmont threw the party in the gallery of Foyles bookshop on Charing Cross Road, where you can still see large prints of the artwork on display for the next week. My photos came out blurry, but there was a great turn-out: comics journalists Paul Gravett, Peter Stanbury, John Freedman, Alex Fitch (\u003Ca href=\"http://podcasts.resonancefm.com/archives/category/shows/panel-borders\">Panel Borders\u003C/a>, podcast with Garen to go out Thursday), Joel Meadows (\u003Ci>Tripwire\u003C/i> magazine) and Tim Pilcher; artists including my studio mates Viviane Schwarz and Gary Northfield, David O'Connell, Rian Hughes, Neill Cameron, Alex Milway, Jason Cobley and loads of other friend and Egmont colleagues.\\r\n\\r\nGo out and order this book now, the first in a series of three; it's fabulous! \\r\n\\r\n\u003C!--more A few more photos under the cut-->\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/garen5-8b7bd4aac9.jpg\"> \u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/garen4-c62575fbd3.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/garen6-ac386a0121.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>Here's Gary in the studio this morning, sporting his brand-new Rainbow Orchid t-shirt\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cb>You can hear Garen give a talk in Oxford on Saturday, 15 August at Caption comics festival.\u003C/b> Stay the night, and come to my talk the next day, it'll be a great weekend. Here's the provisional schedule of events, \u003Ca href=\"http://community.livejournal.com/caption/59462.html\">as posted\u003C/a> by \u003Ca href=\"http://girlycomic.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">girlycomic\u003C/a>:\\r\n\\r\nSaturday 15th August\\r\n10:00 Caption opens: Meet and Greet & Art Activity\\r\n12:30 - 2:30 Zine Workshop\\r\n1:00 - 2:00 Talk on the history of gay & queer comics by Sina Shamsavari \\r\n3:00 - 5:00 Manga Workshop with Asia Alfasi\\r\n2:30 - 3:30 Karen Rubins talks about her V&A Residency\\r\n4:00 - 5:00 Dude, where's my con? Discussion panel on comics events.\\r\n\u003Cb>5:30 - 6:30 Rainbow Orchid: from small press to Egmont talk by Garen Ewing\u003C/b>\\r\n7:00 - 8:30 Charity Art Auction\\r\n9:00 - 10:00 \"Mad Scientists and Rampaging Robots\" quiz with Tony Hitchman\\r\n\\r\nSunday 16th August\\r\n10:00 CAPTION opens\\r\n12:00 - 1:00 Scriptwriting Workshop with Jon Spira \\r\n\u003Cb>12:30 - 1:30 Comics and Picture books: crossing the divide talk by Sarah\\r\nMcIntyre\u003C/b>\\r\n2:00 - 3:00 Asia Alfasi talks about her manga titles and experience in the\\r\ncomics industry. \\r\n2:00 - 4:00 Automatic Drawing Workshop with Al Davison\\r\n3:30 - 4:30 In Conversation with Mark Stafford (Cherubs, tbc) and Jamie McKelvie\\r\n(Suburban Glamour, Phonogram).","2009-08-04T08:58:00.000Z","rainbow-orchid-launch",[],"rainbow orchid launch",1776628733053]