[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-studio-goodness-morris-pics-and-poems":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Yesterday, my studio mate \u003Ca href=\"http://www.garynorthfield.co.uk\">Gary Northfield\u003C/a> was pleased as punch to get a certain parcel in time for this weekend's \u003Ca href=\"http://www.londonexpo.com/\">MCM Expo\u003C/a>. I'd say \u003Cb>\u003Ci>Bad Dog\u003C/i>\u003C/b> is a mini comic, but since it's printed like a newspaper, it's more of a maxi comic. It looks great and it's funny enough to have me spewing my tea. (But be warned, some of his characters use naughty language.) Come along Fri, Sat or Sun and pick up a copy at the Fleece Station table!\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/gary_baddog-3bc5b128a6.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd speaking of the Fleece Station, \u003Cb>our studio's been featured in \u003Ca href=\"http://www.artistsandillustrators.co.uk/\">\u003Ci>Artists & Illustrators\u003C/i>\u003C/a> magazine's November issue!\u003C/b> When editor Steve Pill got in touch with me about it, I cracked up laughing when I saw a photo of another artist's gorgeous museum-like space. But Steve wanted to show ours anyway: tight room, mess and all.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l27/jabberworks/uploads2010/artistillus_mag_lg.jpg\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/artistillus_mag_nov10-967cea9dcb.jpg\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\u003Ci>Click on the image - \u003Ca href=\"http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l27/jabberworks/uploads2010/artistillus_mag_lg.jpg\">or here\u003C/a> - to read a larger version. Apologies, it keeps coming up a bit over-compressed, no matter how large I save the original file.\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\nA special thanks to Barry Griffiths and \u003Ca href=\"http://www.storiesfromtheweb.org\">Stories from the Web\u003C/a>, who ran a \u003Cb>\u003Ci>Morris the Mankiest Monster\u003C/i> poetry and drawing competition\u003C/b>! Congratulations to Grace and Ciara for using the online tools to come up with these monster pictures:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/mankymonsters-04f7688ae0.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd to Tiarnan and Eve for their poems. Here they are! (Gotta love anything that rhymes 'clumsy' and 'bumsy'.)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cb>MAX the Manky Monster\u003C/b>\\r\n\\r\nMAX the manky monster is famous\\r\nFor swearing oaths\\r\nAs well as that he loved to eat gigantic loaves\\r\nHE was funny he was clumsy\\r\nAnd had a big hairy bumsy\\r\nOne day he went out to eat a baby\\r\nInstead he ate a little old lady\\r\nThe next day he felt so bad\\r\nHe was always known as \"SAD\"\\r\nAnd that was the end.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ci>By TIARNAN, aged 10, from St Francis School, Lurgan P6\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cb>Why Morris Is Manky\u003C/b>\\r\n\\r\nI asked Morris one day,\\r\nWhen we were out to play,\\r\nI asked him twice,\\r\nWhile he ate chips and rice,\\r\nWhy are you so manky?\\r\n\u003C!--more More under the cut!-->\\r\nHe never answers,\\r\nThere is something he knew,\\r\nWhen I go to ask him,\\r\nHe just starts something new!\\r\nI ask him again,\\r\nHoping for an answer,\\r\nI just want that for Christmas,\\r\nI just want that from Santa...\\r\nTHE ANSWER!\\r\n\\r\nThe next day at school,\\r\nHe is swimming in the pool.\\r\nAnd I say,\\r\nLike before this day,\\r\nWhy are you so manky?\\r\n\\r\nThen he is washing his face,\\r\nJust after dusting the place.\\r\nHe is very clean,\\r\nLike a washing machine,\\r\nAnd he's gone from nice to mean.\\r\n\\r\nHe's in a grump,\\r\nA right big flump,\\r\nOn the bathroom floor,\\r\nHe says he's ok but we know he's in a bore.\\r\nAnd then I walk in, throw my sweet wrapper in the bin,\\r\nAnd ask him again,\\r\n\"Why are you so manky!?\"\\r\n\\r\n\"I'm not manky, I'm not!\" he says,\\r\nAnd there's a clear honest look on his face,\\r\nAnd he goes from mean to good as he makes the world a better place.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ci>By Eve the Lazy Bones, aged Eleventy-twelve. Lol, jk, I'm 11., from Knowsley, England\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\nRight, we're off to \u003Ca href=\"http://www.londonexpo.com/\">MCM Expo\u003C/a>! Hope to see you there!","2010-10-29T08:07:00.000Z","studio-goodness-morris-pics-and-poems",[],"studio goodness + morris pics and poems",1776628718985]