[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-two-people-im-proud-of":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"A shout-out to two people I love drawing pictures with! The first is nine-year-old \u003Cb>Alec Anderson\u003C/b>, who had his first-ever comics stall at this year's \u003Ca href=\"https://www.comicartfestival.com/\">Lakes International Comic Art Festival\u003C/a> in Kendal! Alec is one of our most active members of the Twitter-based \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/StudioTeaBreak\">@StudioTeaBreak\u003C/a>, regularly taking part in its drawing challenges, as \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CFcomiX\">@CFcomiX\u003C/a>. Here's his dad's photo: \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/554102_original-1d04d559c8.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd his mum's. (His baby sister was born the morning after he and his dad came back from our London launch for \u003Ci>The Legend of Kevin\u003C/i>.)  \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/554610_original-996a16f5cc.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nThey even decorated a local shopfront! \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/554416_original-0bfb6318ad.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd the BBC did a big feature piece on four kids who brought their comics to the festival! It includes \u003Ca href=\"https://jabberworks.livejournal.com/724307.html\">another comics creator I've known for awhile, Zoom Rockman\u003C/a>, but I've pulled out the bit about Alec. You can read the \u003Ca href=\"https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-45088445\">whole article here. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/552988_original-f8912fb202.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/553407_original-0751303368.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/553593_original-bc34bf5d88.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/553789_original-ae4dd22264.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nAnd the other person I'm very proud of is my co-author \u003Ca href=\"http://philip-reeve.com/\">Philip Reeve\u003C/a>. The latest trailer for the upcoming \u003Ci>Mortal Engines\u003C/i> film came out to coincide with New York Comic Con: \\r\n\\r\n\u003Clj-embed id=\"4333\"/>\\r\n\\r\nThese reviewers include footage, from the 7-minute mark, from the NYCC panel dicussion with producer \u003Cb>Peter Jackson\u003C/b>, director \u003Cb>Christian Rivers\u003C/b>, writer \u003Cb>Philippa Boyen\u003C/b>, and actors \u003Cb>Rob Sheehan\u003C/b> (Tom Natsworthy), \u003Cb>Hera Hilmar\u003C/b> (Hester Shaw), \u003Cb>Jihae\u003C/b> (Anna Fang), \u003Cb>Leila George\u003C/b> (Katherine Valentine), \u003Cb>Stephen Lang\u003C/b> (Shrike), presented by \u003Cb>Andy Serkis\u003C/b>. It was great to see them refer to Philip's books and spend so much time talking about the world he'd created. And it was strange to think all this was going on in New York - including a preview of the first 25 minutes of the film - while Philip and I talked with school children in Sardinia. Anyway, I'm excited to see how the Mortal Engines film team will interpret Philip's book - the film comes out in cinemas this December. Here's an \u003Ca href=\"https://www.cbr.com/nycc-mortal-engines-panel/\">article about the panel discussion on Comic Book Resources\u003C/a> if you'd rather read that. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Clj-embed id=\"4334\"/>\\r\n\\r\nIf you want to catch up with the books before the film comes out, here are the four original Mortal Engines books (covers by \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ianmcque\">Ian McQue\u003C/a>), \u003Ci>Night Flights\u003C/i> (the new collection of three Anna Fang stories, covers and interior illustrations by Ian McQue), and the three Fever Crumb prequels (covers by \u003Ca href=\"http://www.davidwyattillustration.com/\">David Wyatt\u003C/a>).\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/554863_original-04d92c8730.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">","2018-10-14T20:56:00.000Z","two-people-im-proud-of",[],"two people i'm proud of",1776628729818]