[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-start-em-young":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/vernlet_space1-00bdee3dd7.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nHere's some more \u003Ca href=\"http://www.thedfc.co.uk\">Vern & Lettuce\u003C/a> comics love, for \u003Ca href=\"http://joedecie.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">joedecie\u003C/a>'s new \u003Ca href=\"http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh57/joedecie/sam.jpg\">baby\u003C/a>. I was going to do the baby in a pram or something, but I was still smitten with Jessica McLeod's idea of space rabbits, so I thought I'd design a two-person space suit for Lettuce and the little guy. (I'll do one more, hopefully tomorrow, for \u003Ca href=\"http://tedprior.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">tedprior\u003C/a>.)\\r\n\\r\nI recently went to Gosh! Comics by the British Museum and bought a copy of \u003Cb>\u003Ci>We can still be friends\u003C/i>\u003C/b> by German comics artist \u003Ca href=\"http://www.mawil.net\">Mawil\u003C/a>. He tells stories about his younger-day unfulfilled crushes, and the drawings and tonal work are beautiful. Coming from a children's book perspective, the line work reminds me very much of one of my all-time favourite writer-illustrators, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.satoshiland.com\">Satoshi Kitamura\u003C/a>.","2008-06-17T08:56:00.000Z","start-em-young",[],"start 'em young",1776628722901]