The Frames of Mind exhibition opening night was AWESOME. It doubled up as a launch of our Parallel Lives anthology, which you can order on Amazon and Waterstones, or buy direct from the londonprintstudio gallery shop!
Everybody did a great job making the gallery look utterly fantastic. Everyone’s artwork stood out in equal measure. And the night itself was really fun and well worth going. We got to draw all over the windows (I drew Geraldine and Sid, naturally) and spoke to lots of people about the creation of the anthology, as well as our experiences on the comic internship.
We also had a comic panel photobooth going which loads of people took pictures at, I’ll post a link up as soon as we’ve got all those sorted and online. I ended up taking a couple myself with tea related speechbubble dialogue hahaha.
Speaking of tea, I cannot tell you how many times over the night people came up to me and said “I LOVE TEA AS WELL!” before they left… they all seemed to be wearing teahermit badges too… heehee. Made me happy that did. A couple of people were actually surprised to see Cafe Suada in the show, they were long time fans and hadn’t realised it was going to be there! Always good to meet readers of my work.
Highlights of the night were talking to Alex Fitch (we discussed a couple of exciting opportunities, EEK. Stay tuned.), Richy Chandler (who also blogged about the night), John Anderson of Soaring Penguin (very nice guy who let me yammer on about Siddown! to him and his lovely wife. She also loves tea.), Al Davison (who I had to thank immensely for helping me with the early planning stages of Siddown!) and just plain seeing my work displayed so nicely in a gallery space was pretty darn cool.
The show is on for the next week so if you are in the area, do please stop by. It’s an excellent comics exhibition you don’t want to miss!
This also marks the end of my comic internship at the londonprintstudio, which has been… unbelievable. I have been part of such a great team of comickers in the studio, and have learnt so much and really enjoyed the past six months. So I have to thank them for an amazing experience. Thank you Shamisa, Merlin, Lily, Susan, Abe, and Karrie. It’s been fun!
The next month is going to be strange and interesting, I think. Comiket’s coming up, I’ve found an agent interested in representing me, I have a graphic novel that I’ll keep pitching until it gets picked up, and today I got my AOI membership pack which is exciting. I am Jade Sarson, an illustrator and comic artist!
I can do this!
