[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-sarnies-with-chris-riddell":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Yesterday I had lunch with an illustrator I've always admired, at least ever since the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.cartoonmuseum.org/\">Cartoon Museum\u003C/a> opened and I studied the way he drew the bony knuckles of an old man's hands in a political cartoon. He's \u003Ca href=\"http://www.stewartandriddell.co.uk/\">Chris Riddell\u003C/a>, and you may know him for his \u003Ci>Ottoline\u003C/i> books, his \u003Ca href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/series/cartoon\">political cartoons in \u003Ci>The Observer\u003C/i>\u003C/a>, his many collaborations with writer Paul Stewart, such as \u003Ci>The Edge Chronicles\u003C/i> or his funny little literary parodies in \u003Ci>The DaVinci Cod\u003C/i>. (You can read a longer list of his work \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Riddell\">over on Wikipedia\u003C/a>.) Here's a picture we drew together:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/chris_riddell_lunch-598d5cd2bc.gif\">\\r\n\\r\nChris doesn't use any digital elements in his work, just pens and paint, and we had fun geeking out over such things as quality of line, lettering with brush pens, and ink stains on the inside of one's jacket pocket. (Yes, his jacket lining is a bit of an inky mess.) We had our sandwiches outside the Observer offices, overlooking the canal, which was completely choked up with green algae.","2011-08-13T08:57:00.000Z","sarnies-with-chris-riddell",[],"sarnies with chris riddell",1776628720567]