[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-stroking-my-slightly-bruised-ego":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"I had an ecstatic phone call from David Fickling on Friday, saying all sort of nice things, and that someone from the Independent had loved Vern & Lettuce and wanted to run the strip in the newspaper. How exciting! I agreed to let them run it and we spent ages discussing which strip to let them have. It slightly niggled in my mind that I shouldn't be giving anything away that's going to appear in the DFC, but the lure of having an A4 colour spread in a major newspaper proved too much for me.\\r\n\\r\nI needn't have worried! Stuart and I went for a sunny walk this morning across the park to the station to pick up a newspaper and spent at least five minutes trying to find the strip. We finally spotted it, in black and white and the size of a postage stamp! So nothing given away. And it really is a good write-up, I can't help but be pleased about that. Well done to 10-year-old Jacob Moreton who wrote the article.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ci>Independent on Sunday, 18 May\u003C/i> - \u003Ca href=\"http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/pullman-supports-first-new-childrens-comic-in-25-years-830217.html\">Read the online article here\u003C/a>\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/vern_indep1-3b24ab8656.jpg\">","2008-05-18T08:00:00.000Z","stroking-my-slightly-bruised-ego",[],"stroking my (slightly bruised) ego",1776628722736]