[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-upcoming-london-swap-meet":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"I just put together a hard-cover little version of my \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/75201.html\">hourly comic\u003C/a>, hooray! I'm trying to get some (very limited) editions ready for the \u003Cb>Comic Creators' Guild of Great Britain Swap Meet\u003C/b> this Saturday. But it takes absolutely ages to make, so I doubt I'll be making many more! I'm aiming for ten copies. Do come along and hang out with other comics people if you're around, \u003Cb>Feb 23rd at the White Swan Pub, 20 Farringdon Street, London EC4A 4AB, 2 - 6pm\u003C/b>.\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/hourly-613d53c9e9.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nThe swap meet coordinator, Giovanni Spinella, writes: \u003Ci>The purpose of this event is to provide all comic book creators a venue where they can meet other creators, to network, socialise and discuss any matter that they find important.\\r\nThis event isn’t a market, so there will be no expectations for you to buy a table or the likes. Nor is this event some kind of recruitment drive. This is simply a venue that we are offering to all small-press creators.\\r\nThe decision to call it a swap-meet comes from the thought that as a creator, you might wish to show your products to other creators and exchange comics. You are not, however obliged to do so. The “meet” part in the “swap-meet” title is by far the most important element.\u003C/i>  \u003Ca href=\"http://www.comicscreatorsguild.co.uk\">Comics Creators Guild website\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"http://pics.livejournal.com/carrie2004/pic/003a7461\">\\r\nAnd here's a banner in support of fellow illustrator and comics person Jess Fink \u003Ca href=\"http://finkenstein.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">finkenstein\u003C/a> who just got her work badly ripped off by a design company. You can read about it \u003Ca href=\"http://finkenstein.livejournal.com/101493.html\">here\u003C/a> \u003Ci>(angry illustrators, some strong language)\u003C/i>.\\r\n\\r\nStuart, Yoko and I went to a concert last night by the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.lpo.co.uk/\">London Philharmonic Orchestra\u003C/a>. They had this brilliant and shockingly young Armenian violinist named Sergey Khachatryan who brought down the house.\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/lndnphil-9ea4c60a74.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd this made me laugh, a friend just asked me to order a \u003Ca href=\"http://www.goigoibabypillows.co.uk/index.html\">Goi Goi Pillow\u003C/a>, on a website she described as 'all about babies with oddly shaped heads'. I would so love to do illustrations for the website, but they might not turn out looking very PC.","2008-02-21T10:21:00.000Z","upcoming-london-swap-meet",[],"upcoming London swap meet",1776628722409]