Who makes comics in the UK? How are they doing? Let’s find out! Ever since I wrote this extremely huffy article about how I was never making another graphic novel because I couldn’t make it work financially, the situation has been bugging me. I knew, anecdotally, that very few people get paid in comics, but […]
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Well, you asked for it, phantom readers in my head, and now you’ve got it! This is a scene from my upcoming graphic novel for Jonathan Cape, LIVESTOCK: a socio-political satire on the relationship between politics, the media, and us. With jokes! It also casts a long, sad look at the disposability of women in
An illustrated step-by-step guide to painting that difficult page you’ve been putting off. When working on your section of a collaborative dystopian graphic novel for the Edinburgh International Book Festival, you want to make a good job of it. Not least because it has been written for you by Pat Mills and everyone keeps telling you
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What’s that sound from underneath the door? I know, I know. It’s been two years since Adamtine came out and there’s still no sign of this ‘Livestock’ book. You suspect that it should probably be on the shelves by now, and you know I’m not dead because you keep seeing me at comic events, drinking
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I’ve posted up my contribution to this book, in its absurd, Kafkaesque entirety, translated back into the original English. I do spoil you.
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Last year, when I was churning out delightful blog entries for Booktrust, I also had a project. It was referred to as The Project. The plan was to turn huge swathes of non-comic-reading readers into evangelical comic-converts, using the Booktrust mantle. I was going to enlist –did enlist- exciting and well-known novelists of the non-graphic
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Hello, you. It’s been a while, hasn’t it? Anyway. Guess where I was the weekend before last? Did you guess ANGOULÊME? You are very clever! (Don’t listen to those other people.) For anyone who doesn’t know what an angoulême is, I’ll explain: Imagine if you will that you love your job like it’s the best job
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I’ve just written an article for New Statesman‘s British Comics week, entitled THE LOVELY MAFIA OF BRITISH COMICS. You can read it here, or you can just scroll down this page. Either way, your comics cockles will be thoroughly warmed. I’ve never trusted articles that are written with any authority about entire communities. People are far
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The very last thing I did as part of my Booktrust residency was CONNECTION LOST, an original collaborative comic written by the sparkling SF author James Smythe and illustrated by m’self. (You can download a nice hi-res PDF version from the Booktrust site here.)
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