[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-saturday-in-the-comics-tank":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/cartoonmus9-fa1b535f5a.jpg\"> \\r\nYesterday a bunch of us from the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.thedfc.org.uk\">the DFC\u003C/a> had a great time leading a comics workshop at London's \u003Ca href=\"http://www.cartoonmuseum.org\">Cartoon Museum\u003C/a> Presenters included the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.thedfc.co.uk/writers-artists/The-Etherington-Brothers/\">Etherington brothers\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.nintendoodles.blogspot.com/\">Zak Simmonds-Hurn\u003C/a> and \u003Ca href=\"http://www.adammurphy.com\">Adam Murphy\u003C/a>. (Zak and Adam's stuff will be appearing later in the DFC.) Here are some pics and you can see some great photos by Alex Lee \u003Ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/n0seblunt/\">here\u003C/a> (including one of me looking like a horse). Thanks so much to those of you who came along, including my novelist Bologna travel buddy \u003Ca href=\"http://notesfromtheslushpile.co.uk/index.html\">Candy Gourlay\u003C/a> and her daughter Mia, who stars in the remarkable film \u003Ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTUGOjusOfg&eurl\">Why Writers Need Agents\u003C/a>.\\r\n\\r\nThe pub afterwards was great fun, so many comics people that I'm really fond of joined us, including \u003Ca href=\"http://www.littlewhitebird.com\">Ellen Lindner\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"http://comixinflux.com\">Stephen Betts\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"http://phatcatz.org.uk\">Sean Azzopardi\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"http://tozocomic.com\">Dave O'Connell\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.devicefonts.co.uk\">Rian Hughes\u003C/a>, DFC publicist \u003Ca href=\"http://teaandscandal.co.uk\">Lindsey Mooney\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"http://deanius.blogspot.com/2008/11/comic-story-written-by-exceptional.html\">Giovanni Spinella\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.mondokane.blogspot.com/\">Will Kane\u003C/a> and Cartoon Museum artist-in-residence \u003Ca href=\"http://www.hocus-baloney.com\">Mark Stafford\u003C/a>.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/cartoonmus3-0b95f8ee29.jpg\"> \u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/cartoonmus17-626d84b39b.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>Lorenzo and groupies; a guy who had an amazingly well designed comic about peanut butter and jam superheroes\u003C/i>\\r\n\u003C!--more More pics here!-->\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/cartoonmus13-44aab8f8ed.jpg\"> \u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/cartoonmus4-e19bceaaa7.jpg\"> \\r\n\u003Ci>Upcoming cartoonists from Iran; Adam, Lisa, Bob and Lorenzo\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/cartoonmus11-9016a0eae7.jpg\"> \u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/cartoonmus1-1-be8f1d98f2.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>Zak on the boards; a guy with a cool split-personality comics character\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/cartoonmus10-134633de15.jpg\"> \u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/cartoonmus6-f5401f0ed3.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>Mia and Candy Gourlay; Adam pulling faces for his 'expressions' workshop\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/cartoonmus2-1-38f3ca15a4.jpg\"> \u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/cartoonmus16-643e0472e2.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>Two visitors from Ohio; another kid who had a zillion and a half funny comics ideas\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/cartoonmus14-ff86c55302.jpg\"> \u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/cartoonmus15-5a991680ab.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/cartoonmus12-7be3321ae7.jpg\"> \u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/cartoonmus8-d4b865ae25.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/cartoonmus7-fdc8050c8f.jpg\"> \u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/cartoonmus5-8a24307f11.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nHere's when things started to go a little weird...\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/cartoonmus20-b94ee33797.jpg\"> \u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/cartoonmus18-beb2adeed5.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>Messing around with Adam in front of the wacky mirror; in the pub\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/cartoonmus19-0143171f26.jpg\"> \u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/cartoonmus21-edec96ad65.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>With Sean Azzopardi; with Mark Stafford, looking pretty much as blurry as the last time I saw him at the DFC launch\u003C/i>","2008-07-13T13:44:00.000Z","saturday-in-the-comics-tank",[],"saturday in the comics tank!",1776628723084]