[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-whos-who-at-orbital-comics":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Earlier this evening, \u003Ca hrf=\"http://www.orbitalcomics.com/\">Orbital Comics\u003C/a> in central London (just near Leicester Square) hosted an exhibition of self portraits by a whole bunch of fab comics people, illustrators and cartoonists! I met \u003Ca href=\"http://www.juliascheele.co.uk/\">Julia Scheele\u003C/a> and \u003Ca href=\"http://www.barnabyrichards.co.uk\">Barnaby Richards\u003C/a> at the entrance on Great Newport Street. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/orbital_comics_1-82296cbc37.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003C!--more LOADS more photos under the cut!-->\\r\n\u003Cb>The show runs until 15 Oct\u003C/b>, so do pop by if you're in the area! Here's my fab studio mate \u003Ca href=\"http://www.littlewhitebird.com\">Ellen Lindner\u003C/a> with her self-portrait, which includes our occasional studio dog, Momo. (Yes, the same Momo who did not just \u003Ca href=\"http://philipreeve.blogspot.com/2011/03/scriveners-moon-better-than-pancakes.html\">one\u003C/a> but \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/417298.html\">two\u003C/a> book reviews for me!) You can see a larger version of Ellen's picture \u003Ca href=\"http://ellenlindner.livejournal.com/55476.html\">here on her LiveJournal blog\u003C/a>.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/ellen_lindner-68bc505ed9.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nHere is the most excellent \u003Ca href=\"http://www.scribblehound.com\">David O'Connell\u003C/a>! Keep an eye on Dave, he's editing an excellent new comics anthology called \u003Cb>Ink + Paper\u003C/b> and I cannot wait to see it. Have a look on the \u003Ca href=\"http://inkpluspaper.com/\">Ink + Paper website\u003C/a> for some sneak peeks.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/david_oconnell-d7dba5dd0f.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nSo did you ever wonder what some of these comics people look like? Well, wonder now more. \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hine\">David Hine\u003C/a>, for starters, looked rather worryingly like his picture...\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/david_hine-b482747c24.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nHere's \u003Ca href=\"http://www.sammyborras.blogspot.com/\">Sammy Boras\u003C/a>, who came all the way over from Coventry for the evening, and who posts work as \u003Ca href=\"http://mangazebra.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">mangazebra\u003C/a> on LiveJournal.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/sammy_boras-f488f914b4.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://drawingb0ard.blogspot.com/\">Thorsten Sideboard\u003C/a> hails originally from Glasgow and has a very distinctive quiff...\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/thorsten_sideboard-af05da940d.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI don't know much yet about \u003Ca href=\"http://www.appallingnonsense.co.uk/pint.html\">Julia Homersham\u003C/a>'s work yet, but I am going to remedy that.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/julia_homersham-6f9e1fd6d2.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI've known \u003Ca href=\"http://www.joedecie.com/\">Joe Decie\u003C/a> for ages from LiveJournal (\u003Ca href=\"http://joedecie.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">joedecie\u003C/a>) and comics fairs and besides being hugely talented, a nicer chappie you'll never meet. He had \u003Ci>two\u003C/i> pictures on display.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/joe_decie-fe10c8e146.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nHurrah! The fab \u003Ca href=\"http://www.timothywinchester.com/\">Timothy Winchester\u003C/a> finally let me take his photo instead of hiding behind something knitted. (That's \u003Ca href=\"http://www.adamcadwell.com/\">Adam Cadwell\u003C/a> looking over his shoulder.)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/timothy_winchester-f471d346b6.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nThe lovely \u003Ca href=\"http://indecision.deviantart.com/\">Josceline Fenton\u003C/a>. Yup, that's the same hair, I can see it!\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/Josceline_fenton-b96a5b5065.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nYou might know \u003Ca href=\"http://www.richardcowdry.com/\">Richard Cowdry\u003C/a> from excellent comics newspaper \u003Ca href=\"http://www.thecomixreader.com/\">The Comix Reader\u003C/a>.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/richard_cowdry-814175b8af.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI finally met \u003Ca href=\"http://www.ventedspleen.com/\">Tom Humberstone\u003C/a>, who only just lives around the corner from the Fleece Station. He's one of the contributors to our soon-to-be-launched \u003Ca href=\"http://www.blankslatebooks.co.uk/our-books/nelson/\">Nelson anthology\u003C/a> and his work is lovely.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/tom_humberstone-3bef6e2311.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI need to go do some good exploring on the website of \u003Ca href=\"http://www.appallingnonsense.co.uk/\">Gareth Brookes\u003C/a>.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/gareth_brookes-79154878b7.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nHere's Cartoon Museum artist-in-residence \u003Ca href=\"http://www.hocus-baloney.com/\">Mark Stafford\u003C/a>:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/mark_stafford-caf2b677f8.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nVery glad to meet \u003Ca href=\"http://milkthecat.wordpress.com/\">Dan White\u003C/a> for the first time.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/dan_white-4ddbcebb10.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd one last shot with Sammy, Ellen and Dave, who look deservedly well pleased with the show. You can find links to the other artists I didn't manage to photograph over on the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.orbitalcomics.com/events/\">Orbital website here\u003C/a>.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/orbital_comics_2-5ee4f31df5.jpg\">","2011-09-18T21:19:00.000Z","whos-who-at-orbital-comics",[],"who's who at orbital comics!",1776628720714]