[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-stage-makeup-and-lotsa-links":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/glawrence-e2f9e7fb01.gif\">\\r\n\\r\nFor today's morning sketch, I did a freehand ink drawing loosely based on \u003Ca href=\"http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l27/jabberworks/glawrence_photo.jpg\">a photo\u003C/a> of stage actress \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Lawrence\">Gertrude Lawrence\u003C/a>.\\r\n\\r\nI'm very sad about what's happening with Proposition 8 over in the United States.  \u003Ca href=\"http://libba-bray.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">libba-bray\u003C/a> has written a \u003Ca href=\"http://libba-bray.livejournal.com/48582.html\">thoughtful blog post about it here.\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://joeyweiser.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">joeyweiser\u003C/a> just posted a breakdown of how he makes comics in Photoshop, \u003Ca href=\"http://joeyweiser.livejournal.com/103546.html\">most likely very useful.\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nThere's a great interview with the DFC's \u003Cb>Jim Medway\u003C/b> and \u003Cb>Adam Cadwell\u003C/b> over on \u003Ca href=\"http://matthewbadhamwriter.blogspot.com/2009/05/there-arent-that-many-rules-really_198.html\">Matt Badham's blog.\u003C/a> (Jim's just right now posted a new painting to the \u003Ca href=\"http://supercomicsadventuresquad.blogspot.com/\">Super Comics Adventure Squad\u003C/a>.) \\r\n\\r\nHey, there's lots going on over at the Forbidden Planet International blog right now! Including:\\r\n\\r\n*a link to \u003Ca href=\"http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/?p=13146\">the BBC video report\u003C/a> about the new \u003Cb>Hergé Museum\u003C/b>, and there's some commentary on its PR so far.\\r\n\\r\n*\u003Cb>Ted Dewan\u003C/b> talks about \u003Ca href=\"http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/?p=13148\">Boys and Violent Imagery\u003C/a>. Ted's done the DFC's \u003Ci>Doodle-It\u003C/i> page and I met Ted on my very first visit to David Fickling's office. When I realised who he was, I had a fan-girl moment and rather surprised him with how well I knew the details of his \u003Ci>Crispin the Pig\u003C/i> book. He's making a kids book with lots of picture of boys stabbing and bashing each other, I think I'll need to see that.\\r\n\\r\n*\u003Cb>Gary Northfield\u003C/b>'s \u003Ca href=\"http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/?p=13095\">comic about Anne Frank\u003C/a>. Last time I had coffee with him, he told me he was doing a funny comic for National Geographic Kids about the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr, which made me think, better you than me! But I have no doubt he pulled it off marvellously.\\r\n\\r\n*Have a look at \u003Ca href=\"http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/?p=13169\">Matt Badham in conversation with Oli Smith\u003C/a>. (And note the \u003Cb>London Underground Comics\u003C/b> event on 27 June.) \\r\n\\r\n*a review of \u003Ci>\u003Cb>The Picture of Dorian Gray\u003C/i>\u003C/b>, \u003Ca href=\"http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/?p=12422\">adapted in comics form by Ian Edginton and Ian Culbard;\\r\n\\r\n*\u003Ca href=\"http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/?p=13104\">notes on\u003C/a> the return the Franco-Belgian classic \u003Cb>Spirou\u003C/b>;\\r\n\\r\n*\u003Ca href=\"http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/?p=13130\">commentary and link\u003C/a> to the \u003Cb>Bookseller Century: 100 most influential people in books today\u003C/b>. It's interesting to see a lot of the people I've been meeting these past two years; the English publishing world is not very large.\\r\n\\r\n*the \u003Cb>Sherlock Holmes film\u003C/b> \u003Ca href=\"http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/?p=13122\">trailer\u003C/a>, wiht Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law. It doesn't look very Holmesian, but it looks like it's picked up on that particular brand of humour I've been missing in recent Bond films; might go see it.\\r\n\\r\n*and finally, a link to \u003Ca href=\"http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/?p=13116\">the Hi8us Comix competition\u003C/a>, including a trip to Spain and a chance to work with Midlands comics people, including the DFC's \u003Cb>Laura Howell\u003C/b> and \u003Cb>Asia Alfasi\u003C/b> (whom I mentioned a few posts ago).\\r\n\\r\n...Okay, this is getting silly long. Just \u003Ca href=\"http://www.forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/\">go look at the blog yourself!\u003C/a>","2009-05-28T07:54:00.000Z","stage-makeup-and-lotsa-links",[],"stage makeup and lotsa links",1776628732605]