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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While doing the artwork for LIVESTOCK (coming soon) all alone in my chilly studio, I like to listen to podcasts to feel like I’m not cut off from humanity. Some are educational and/or journalistic, so that I can keep up with the topics of the day, but most are silly comedy podcasts where people put
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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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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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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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