It puts the lotion in the basket… No. Not that kind of skin. The nice people at Camaloon got in touch with me about doing a competition in which you could win one of my scribbles as a skin for your iPhone 4/5, so this is that. All you have to do is leave a […]
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Those McCain adverts have sent me over the edge. Copywriters in advertising Have hit a sickly trend surprising. Someone up on high decreed That what the punters really need To sell this shiny product to ’em Is some kind of half-arsed poem. “It’s folksy!” They cry, “They’ll reminisce About those rosy days they miss Country
Goddamn poetry in goddamn TV adverts Read More »
I’ve posted up my contribution to this book, in its absurd, Kafkaesque entirety, translated back into the original English. I do spoil you.
‘The House on the Cliff’ Read More »
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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As my last blog post was two months ago I have to concede, grudgingly, that I am a rubbish blogger. So let us now harken back to the time when I was good at it, when I had intelligent things to say: when I was the Booktrust Online Writer in Residence (capitalised for grandeur). Behold!
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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
Angoulême, je t’aime Read More »
The lovely Dan Berry (no relation so far as we can work out) interviewed me for his excellent and always entertaining podcast Make It Then Tell Everybody. For 47 minutes of lively chitchat in which I ruin my hopes of maintaining a dark and brooding persona, click here.
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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.)
Booktrust: Operation: The Project Read More »
I know it would have been sensible to get the website up and running AND THEN advertise its presence online, but I wanted there to be a smooth transition from my blogging as Booktrust resident to blogging on my own website. (Just in case anyone liked what I was saying.) Unfortunately, I’ve had very little
Everybody look away for a bit. Read More »