[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-work-past-and-future":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Thanks so much to \u003Ci>\u003Cb>Armadillo magazine\u003C/b>\u003C/i> for reviewing the six books in the \u003Cb>DFC Library\u003C/b>, and particularly for their \u003Ca href=\"http://sites.google.com/site/armadillomagazine/features4\">write-up about \u003Ci>Vern and Lettuce\u003C/i> here\u003C/a>! You even get a peek at one of the pages. (The tower block in the second panel is based on the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/223208\">Clifton Estate\u003C/a> in Peckham.)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://sites.google.com/site/armadillomagazine/features4\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/vernstrip-c7a08ec262.jpg\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://sites.google.com/site/armadillomagazine/features4\">\u003Ci>Read the whole strip here!\u003C/i>\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nThe Amazon link goes to \u003Ci>Monkey Nuts\u003C/i> instead of \u003Ci>Vern and Lettuce\u003C/i> - also a FINE BOOK! - but \u003Ca href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0385619073/ref=s9_simh_gw_p14_d0_i4?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=1HM3EHHMEVNQWWWAMGAV&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=467128533&pf_rd_i=468294\">here's the working link\u003C/a>.\\r\n\\r\nYou might have read the writer and illustrator \u003Cb>Philip Reeve\u003C/b>'s somewhat \u003Ca href=\"http://philipreeve.blogspot.com/2010/12/e-bookalypse-now.html\">pessimistic blog post about the future of the book\u003C/a>. When I read it, I was about to write a comment, but then I realised I had no way of knowing where the book would be in 40 years or so. So I decided to wait 40 years and then send him a letter about how books are all the rage now. I dashed it off, it's just a bit of fun, but Philip's \u003Ca href=\"http://philipreeve.blogspot.com/2010/12/letter-from-future.html\">posted the whole thing over here on his blog\u003C/a>:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://philipreeve.blogspot.com/2010/12/letter-from-future.html\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/futureletter-c2aa22e26d.jpg\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://philipreeve.blogspot.com/2010/12/letter-from-future.html\">\u003Ci>Click here to see the whole letter\u003C/i>\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nJust a couple other things: Someone's made \u003Ca href=\"http://londonist.com/2010/12/cutty-sark-made-from-lego.php\">a LEGO version of the Cutty Sark clipper ship!\u003C/a> (The Cutty Sark is one of my oldest clients. Before the fire, I used to be \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/48765.html\">Ship's Illustrator\u003C/a>! (There's a rather long story in that.) I hear that restoration work's progressing well.\\r\n\\r\nAnd I'm bookmarking this link to \u003Ca href=\"http://postalheritage.wordpress.com\">The British Postal Museum & Archive\u003C/a>. So many lovely stamps, posters, cards, envelopes and photos to trawl through, and I'm such a fan of real letters on paper. My New Year's Resolution at the start of this year was to write more letters, and I made a comic/short story about it that you can \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/162136.html\">read online called \u003Ci>Dear David Lasky\u003C/i>.","2010-12-16T07:33:00.000Z","work-past-and-future",[],"work past and future",1776628719349]