[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-see-you-at-unicomics":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"I think my 11am \u003Ci>Hungry Aliens & Manky Monsters\u003C/i> workshop is full now, but you can always turn up on the day and try your luck! \\r\nOur 2:00 \u003Ci>Creating Comics for Kids\u003C/i> panel was only announced fairly late, so you'd have much more chance of getting in. Come along and get copies signed of Dave Shelton's \u003Ci>Good Dog, Bad Dog\u003C/i>, Gary Northfield's \u003Ci>Derek the Sheep\u003C/i> (He might even sign your Beano if you ask him nicely) and my picture books, \u003Ci>Morris the Mankiest Monster\u003C/i> and \u003Ci>You Can't Eat a Princess!\u003C/i>. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://www.unicomics.co.uk/UniComics/UniComics_Home.html\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/unicomics-049793a557.jpg\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nStop by my table and say hi, and cheer up Stuart if he's looking a bit tired. Besides the picture books, I'll have \u003Ci>Birdsong\u003C/i> anthologies and a few copies left of my \u003Ci>Dear Diary\u003C/i> mini comic for sale.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cb>Congratulations to \u003Ca href=\"http://vivianeschwarz.blogspot.com/2010/04/there-are-cats-on-this-list.html\">Viviane Schwarz\u003C/a> for being shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway medal! Whoo hoo!!!\u003C/b> (And David Roberts, and Grahame Baker-Smith, and Satoshi Kitamura, and... actually, I couldn't make a very unbiased call on this one, they'll all such lovely people.)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://www.opticalradio.net\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/optical-573c04e312.jpg\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nLast night my studio mate \u003Ca href=\"http://www.littlewhitebird.com\">Ellen Lindner\u003C/a> and I talked about our books and comics on the Old Police Station's very own \u003Cb>Optical Radio with Val Phoenix\u003C/b> on her show \u003Ci>Odd Girl Out\u003C/i>. I'm not sure if we're going to be able to post the podcast, but if you missed the live version, you can \u003Cb>listen to it again starting at 1pm this Sunday at \u003Ca href=\"http://www.opticalradio.net\">OpticalRadio.net\u003C/a>.\u003C/b> \\r\nEllen and I had a lot of fun doing it, and even got a couple free glasses of champagne afterward from the students holding a fashion event outside the sound booth. Wahey! (That helped ease the agony of the Leaders Debate somewhat.)\\r\n\\r\nMusic diary date: You know the writer, puppeteer and sometimes-illustrator \u003Ca href=\"http://www.sueeves.net/\">Sue Eves\u003C/a>, who wrote \u003Ci>The Quiet Woman and the Noisy Dog\u003C/i>? Well, her rather fab DJ partner, \u003Ca href=\"http://twitter.com/imaxreinhardt\">Max Reinhardt\u003C/a>, is organising a big music festival for \u003Cb>Sunday, 13 June\u003C/b> in \u003Ca href=\"http://www.london-se1.co.uk/places/bernie-spain-gardens\">Bernie Spain Gardens\u003C/a> on London's South Bank, called \u003Ca href=\"http://www.myspace.com/celebratingsanctuary\">Celebrating Sanctuary\u003C/a>. I think I'll pop along!\\r\n\u003Clj-embed id=\"139\"/>\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63DY9PjGvDk\">\u003Ci>YouTube link\u003C/a>\u003C/i>","2010-04-23T17:04:00.000Z","see-you-at-unicomics",[],"see you at unicomics!",1776628718005]