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<\/p>\nHey there!<\/p>\n
Just surfacing briefly from deep-drilling work on PHASE THREE to tell you about the excellent weekend I just had. Spent a lot of it on TRAINS, but it was definitely worth it!<\/p>\n
On Saturday I got up at stupid o’clock to catch my first train of the weekend, going from London’s King’s Cross to LINCOLN where they were having a literary festival – AND I WAS ON THE BILL!<\/p>\n
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See? Halfway down? That’s my name! On the bill! At a literary festival!<\/p>\n
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Being a public (as opposed to a school-) event my talk was kind of low-key. [No Rowling-style queues round the block – YET!] But the group of people I spoke to were GREAT — full of questions, opinions, suggestions, and, sometimes (thanks, AIMEE!!) what felt like all three at same time!<\/p>\n
From Lincoln I hopped another train back to London before heading out again on yet a \/third\/, this time to BRISTOL for the INTERNATIONAL COMICS EXPO<\/a>.<\/p>\n This (above) is from Sunday. The gentleman standing beside me in this pic is BARNABY RICHARDS<\/a>, who, as well as being a splendid fellow and an old friend of mine, is an absolutely wonderful artist. He’s just recently started a webcomic called RADBOD<\/strong>, and it’s shaping up very, very nicely: do click on the link to check it out, and don’t forget to subscribe to the mailing list.<\/p>\n The Expo was, unsurprisingly, quite a restrained affair compared to the recent New York shenanigans<\/a>. But it was great fun. The awesome ROGER LANGRIDGE<\/a> was there, who is always a pleasure to speak to (though possibly not for him – he looked a bit knackered!) And a particular highlight for me was meeting one half of the creative partnership that is Ian Edginton<\/a> and D’Israeli<\/a>, who are responsible for some of the finest comics I’ve read over the last six months<\/strong> (SCARLET TRACES, LEVIATHAN and KINGDOM OF THE WICKED, to name a few). Typically, I chose the moment to make a complete fool of myself: recognizing him from a photo in one of his books (or so I thought) I marched straight up to Mr Edginton at the Dark Horse stall and congratulated him profusely on his thrilling writing. Of course it wasn’t him, it was D’Israeli, the artist. -AARRGH!<\/p>\n![\"BristolInternationalComicsExpoMay08\"](\"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/bristolcomicconmay08.jpg\")
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