[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-the-thing":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/thing09_1-2dcb3a734b.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nHurrah for the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.ukwebcomixthing.co.uk\">UK Web & Mini Comix Thing!\u003C/a> Here's my table with my two fantastic table-mates, \u003Ca href=\"http://tozocomic.com/2007/01/28/chapter-1/\">David O'Connell\u003C/a> and \u003Ca href=\"http://www.ukwebcomixthing.co.uk\">Woodrow Phoenix\u003C/a>. I'd stayed up way too late the night before, bashing together my mini comics, but we had a great time and got to see loads of fabulous comics people. This was the first time I stood behind a table at the Thing (and my second-ever table, after the \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/168502.html\">Alternative Press Fair\u003C/a>), so I didn't pick up as much loot as I did the last two years, when I had more time to wander around. But I still managed to buy and trade a few things:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/thing09_8-74e62d70a9.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ci>Barbs\u003C/i>; \u003Ci>A Nice Day Out in Klkley\u003C/i> by \u003Cb>Shug\u003C/b> - \u003Ca href=\"http://shug_comics.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">shug_comics\u003C/a>\\r\nCards by \u003Cb>Darryl Cunningham\u003C/b> - \u003Ca href=\"http://tallguywrites.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">tallguywrites\u003C/a>\\r\n\u003Ci>What I Drew, volume 2\u003C/i> and \u003Ci>The Hourly Comic\u003C/i> by \u003Cb>Joe Decie\u003C/b> - \u003Ca href=\"http://joedecie.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">joedecie\u003C/a>\\r\n\u003Ci>Bigger Ruffs for Everyone\u003C/i> by \u003Cb>Kate Beaton\u003C/b> - \u003Ca href=\"http://beatonna.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">beatonna\u003C/a>\\r\n\u003Ci>Curtis and Terrorist 2\u003C/i> by \u003Ca href=\"http://www.modernmonstrosity.co.uk\">Oliver Lamden\u003C/a>\\r\n\u003Ci>The Sea, part 3\u003C/i> by \u003Cb>Will Kirkby\u003C/b> - \u003Ca href=\"http://chamonkee.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">chamonkee\u003C/a>\\r\n\u003Ci>Chloe Noonan: Monster Hunter\u003C/i> by \u003Cb>Marc Ellerby\u003C/b> - \u003Ca href=\"http://burnt_jamb.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">burnt_jamb\u003C/a>\\r\n\u003Ci>Mine's a Gin and Tonic; Nasty, Brutish & Short; Man & Troll; Nice Cat Evil Cat\u003C/i> and badges by \u003Cb>David O'Connell\u003C/b> - \u003Ca href=\"http://tozocomic.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">tozocomic\u003C/a>\\r\n\u003Ci>A Music Paper\u003C/i> by \u003Ca href=\"http://www.amdrawing.co.uk\">Alastair Maceachern\u003C/a>\\r\n\u003Ci>Beaver and Steve 2\u003C/i> by \u003Cb>James Turner\u003C/b> - \u003Ca href=\"http://eruditebaboon.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">eruditebaboon\u003C/a>\\r\n\u003Ci>Sketchbook 1\u003C/i> by \u003Cb>Sean Azzopardi\u003C/b> - \u003Ca href=\"http://seanazz.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">seanazz\u003C/a>\\r\n\u003Ci>Kendal Calling\u003C/i> by \u003Ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/jim_tyson\">Jim Tyson\u003C/a>\\r\n\u003Ci>Gary the Blu-tac Dog\u003C/i> by UK comics news \u003Ca href=\"http://www.bugpowder.com\">Bugpowder\u003C/a>'s \u003Cb>Dan Fish\u003C/b>\\r\n\u003Ci>Sushi Karaoke\u003C/i> by \u003Ca href=\"http://www.lizzlizz.com\">Lizz Lunney\u003C/a> (Is she on LiveJournal or did I just dream that?)\\r\n\\r\nThe DFC's \u003Ca href=\"http://supercomicsadventuresquad.blogspot.com\">Super Comics Adventure Squad\u003C/a> had a good turnout: \u003Cb>James Turner, Emma Vieceli (\u003Ca href=\"http://emmav.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">emmav\u003C/a>), Dave Shelton, Laura Howell, John Aggs, Gary Northfield, Woodrow Phoenix\u003C/b> and me. \u003Ca href=\"http://supercomicsadventuresquad.blogspot.com\">(Find links to all those fab people on our new group blog.)\u003C/a> Ellen Lindner - \u003Ca href=\"http://ellenlindner.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">ellenlindner\u003C/a> - was doing a brisk trade, selling all her copies of her new novel, \u003Cb>\u003Ci>Undertow\u003C/i>\u003C/b> \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/185071.html\">(I've written about it here.)\u003C/a>.\\r\n\\r\n\u003C!--more Click for more photos under the cut-->\\r\nI wasn't thinking too much about my camera, so I missed a lot of pictures I would have like to have taken, including the amazing \u003Ca href=\"http://chamonkee.livejournal.com/134068.html\">Wanted posters\u003C/a> behind the table hosted by Will Kirkby, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.myspace.com/chunkymonkeypoo\">Lou\u003C/a> and \u003Ca href=\"http://yunni.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">yunni\u003C/a>. And I got to meet the amazing \u003Ca href=\"http://warwickjohnsoncadwell.blogspot.com/\">Warwick Johnson Cadwell\u003C/a> for the first time, but also missed getting a photo. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/thing09_7-1321f9a76c.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>DFC's Gary Northfield & Dave Shelton\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/thing09_3-fc02365f80.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>I was excited to meet Swedish Anna who appears in Marc Ellerby's comics, yay!\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/thing09_2-a34020cb8e.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>Hugh 'Shug' Raine, Joe Decie and Al Maceachern\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/thing09_11-0400b336b0.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>Dale O'Flaherty with his brilliant sketchbook\u003C/i> - \u003Ca href=\"http://daleof.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">daleof\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/thing09_12-07aef336f7.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>DFC's Laura Howell, Stuart and Kate Beaton. Kate came all the way over from Canada to exhibit, and I managed to get in early to nab a copy of her comic, which unsurprisingly sold out very quickly. If you haven't seen her history comics, do go have a look, they're brilliant: \u003Ca href=\"http://beatonna.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">beatonna\u003C/a> Kate bought a copy of \u003C/i>Airship\u003Ci>, which made me feel happy. She must have been well tired after flying over and being mobbed at the fair, but she put in a great appearance, along with \u003C/i>Scary Go Round's\u003Ci> \u003Ca href=\"http://www.scarygoround.com\">John Allison\u003C/a>.\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/thing09_14-7ffd4a0e65.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>This was Stuart's first time at a small press fair, and he didn't quite know how to begin. But he emerged from the fray, triumphant, with one comic he'd bought, \u003C/i>Train to Shanghai\u003Ci> by \u003Ca href=\"http://robjacksoncomics.blogspot.com\">Rob Jackson\u003C/a>. I hadn't heard of Rob, and the comic looks good, so I look forward to having a read of that. (After Stuart, of course.)\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/thing09_13-552cecdff1.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>Laura Howell's a big fan of Kate Beaton's and managed to get a drawing of \u003Ca href=\"http://beatonna.livejournal.com/23574.html\">Tesla, the celibate scientist\u003C/a>.\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/thing09_4-f95167d1c4.jpg\"> \u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/thing09_9-093a70a8db.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://ratherlemony.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">ratherlemony\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"http://tallguywrites.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">tallguywrites\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"http://bandersnatch_02.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">bandersnatch_02\u003C/a> and  \u003Ca href=\"http://maartjeschalkx.blogspot.com/\">Maartje Schalkx\u003C/a>. \u003Ci>I was very glad to be able to give Maartje the \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/169960.html\">portrait I'd drawn of her\u003C/a>. \\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://bandersnatch_02.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">bandersnatch_02\u003C/a> with contraband brought all the way from America. (Thanks, Ben!)\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/thing09_5-4a29bc56a9.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ci>Two of Oxford's \u003Ca href=\"http://caption.org/2/\">Caption comics festival\u003C/a> co-ordinators, Selina Lock (\u003Ca href=\"http://girlycomic.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">girlycomic\u003C/a>) and Jay Eales, with their latest Girlycomic anthology (which I mentoned earlier at Zine Fest \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/166360.html\">here\u003C/a>).\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/thing09_6-6019b2c489.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>Convention stalwarts \u003Ca href=\"http://www.downthetubes.net/features/interviews/rok_creators/john_maybury_rok_090308.html\">John Maybury\u003C/a> (\u003C/i>Space Babe\u003Ci>) and Siobhan Hillman from the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.comicscreatorsguild.co.uk\">Comics Creators Guild\u003C/a>. \u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/thing09_10-d80cf3f8ce.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>\u003Ca href=\"http://www.alleged.org.uk/jrd/\">Jeremy Dennis\u003C/a> holding a signed copy of a picture book by Woodrow Phoenix.\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\nAlso no photos, but a big thanks for stopping by, to Oxford's \u003Ca href=\"http://jinty.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">jinty\u003C/a> and \u003Ca href=\"http://tortipede.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">tortipede\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"http://cdave.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">cdave\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"http://harveyjames.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">harveyjames\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"http://mondoagogo.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">mondoagogo\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"http://piley.blogspot.com\">Piley\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"http://mangazebra.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">mangazebra\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"http://phlebas.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">phlebas\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.hocus-baloney.com\">Mark Stafford\u003C/a>, the peanut-butter-and-jam-superheroes guy and his dad that \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/110016.html\">I met at the Cartoon Museum\u003C/a>, and those who had their own stands: \u003Ca href=\"http://smurf_uk.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">smurf_uk\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"http://ryclaude.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">ryclaude\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"http://moovok.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">moovok\u003C/a> and \u003Ca href=\"http://venkman_project.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">venkman_project\u003C/a>. (Let me know if I  missed you out!) Please do send me a link if you post a write-up or pictures!\\r\n\\r\nThanks, \u003Ca href=\"http://ztoical.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">ztoical\u003C/a>, for organising a great drinks session afterward! Ireland was well represented.","2009-03-29T11:19:00.000Z","the-thing",[],"the thing!",1776628731422]