[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-varoom-some-thoughts-on-social-media":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"I've written an \u003Ca href=\"http://ht.ly/10rbZx\">article for \u003Cb>Varoom\u003C/b> magazine\u003C/a>, published by the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.theaoi.com/\">Association of Illustrators\u003C/a>! They gave me space to pour out what I really think about social media, and you might connect with some of the things I've written. It was behind a paywall when the issue was published, but they've only just made it public online. Do check out their magazine, it's lovely, and raises a lot of good issues about illustration and working in the field. You can follow Varoom on Twitter - \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Varoommagazine\">@Varoommagazine\u003C/a> and its editor Derek Brazell: \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/DerekBrazell\">@DerekBrazell\u003C/a>.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://ht.ly/10rbZx\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/84430_original-b2fd746767.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nOther news, \u003Cb>our 24-Hour Comic Marathon anthology, 24 x 7, is up for an Eisner Award\u003C/b> (the Oscars of comics)! And \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/kbaczynski\">Kristyna Baczynski\u003C/a>'s story in it is up for another award! If you'd like to see our book win, you can \u003Ca href=\"http://www.eisnervote.com/?A5W_Sess_ID=f74122ed420f4c4e8eb7f79f8b03c6c1\">vote for us here\u003C/a>. :) \\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://www.comic-con.org/awards/2016-eisner-award-nominees\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/84518_original-7724b138df.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Eisner Awards\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nUnlike the \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/731995.html\">Angoulême prize\u003C/a> earlier this year, there's a record number of women nominated (and you can read a \u003Ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2016/04/19/2016-eisner-awards-the-oscars-of-comics-announces-record-number-of-nominations-for-women/\">Washington Post article about it here\u003C/a>.) Here's \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/669368.html\">my blog post about making the seven comics short stories in our book\u003C/a>, \u003Ci>24 x 7\u003C/i>, and you can read a review and buy it in person or online \u003Ca href=\"http://www.page45.com/store/24-by-7-hc.html\">from the wonderfully supportive Page 45 comic shop\u003C/a>.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://www.page45.com/store/24-by-7-hc.html\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/84827_original-ec373d1899.jpg\">\u003C/a>","2016-04-20T12:00:00.000Z","varoom-some-thoughts-on-social-media",[],"varoom: some thoughts on social media",1776628728323]