Free Comic Book Day and Get London Reading
Free Comic Book Day was spent at the wonderful GOSH! Comics in London’s glittering West End. It was hectic and fun – there should be a word for that. Funtic? I spent some time at the drawing table with budding comic-creators who all had very firm ideas about what they wanted to do. I’m always so taken by ...
Monster Art & Comiket
A school teacher friend of mine sent me these pics drawn by students in his class. They were drawing characters from their favourite books and a few of them had chosen MONSTER & CHIPS! I’m very honoured that they liked the book so much and the art is pretty amazing too: Joe meets Fuzzby. Great ...
Zombie cup-cakes!
They look freakily delicious, I must say! You can see a pic in the background from the book – it’s like they’ve just stepped out of it! I’ve pinched the above photo from Playing by the Book – if you’re the chef, then do let me know. ETA: And the marvellous baker was Polly of The Little Wooden ...
MONSTER & CHIPS DAY!
Today is officially the best day ever, as it’s officially the release day for my book MONSTER & CHIPS! It’s been a real adventure for me and I’ve loved every second – and I hope you enjoy the book as much as I have enjoyed creating it. My publisher, HarperCollins, has been brilliantly supportive ...
Comic Workshop at the Imagine Festival
If you know a young person in need of some activity during half-term week, I highly recommend the Imagine Festival being held at the Royal Festival Hall – loads of stuff for kids involving dance, literature, theatre and art. I’m delighted to say that I’ve been invited to take part, so I’ll be running two comic-making workshops on February 22nd, at ...
28 Days to Go!
Only 28 days to go until the publication day of MONSTER & CHIPS! I’m afraid I’ll be harping on about this quite a lot but I’m so excited to have my first book for sale! I’ll be posting some sneak peeks here but in the meantime feel free to pre-order at Amazon or other online booksellers ...
Score vs Script
“A has the flesh of a fruit which [he/she/it] begins to eat. B has the seeds, which [he/she/it] plants. A realises that [he/she/it] will have no source of food after eating the fruit. B begins to starve while waiting for a tree to grow. The remainder of the fruit will sustain A and B until ...
The Bookseller on MONSTER & CHIPS
Here’s the press release that appeared in yesterday’s The Bookseller Twitter feed!
Monster & Chips
I’ve been keeping this under my hat for about six months, which has been pretty excruciating, but it looks like I’m free to talk about some very exciting creative happenings for me. Early in the year I submitted a manuscript for a children’s book to my lovely agent, Jodie Marsh. I assumed there would ...
Multitasking
Dare I say summer is almost over? Such as it was. My blogging rate has fallen short of its target but that is more a sign of busy-ness than laziness (but there’s a bit of that too). Last February, I wrote this post providing a creative to-do list for the year. Let’s have a recap: ...
Paper Science 7
I should have posted about this a while ago: Paper Science 7 is out now, and I’m delighted to have been asked back to contribute a comic for it. I love the newsprint format for comics and PS has been a particularly impressive example. I talk a bit more about it in a short interview ...
Large calamari to go, please…
I haven’t updated here in ages… um, happy New Year? The above pic was an updated version of a squid-monster-attacks-city scene I drew several years ago but which has always been popular seller as a print at comic conventions. I’ve been giving my portfolio an upgrade (a work-in-progress, as these things tend to be) so ...
Flash!
Made you look! It’s the MCM Expo this weekend! It’s the UK’s nuttiest comic convention – me and the Flash will be there with a load of (new) fan-art prints. Superheroes? Got it covered. Game of Thrones? Check. Hobbits? Of course! Random nerd stuff? Naturellement. I’ll be sharing space with a table buddy of old, ...
Nine characters in search of a timeslot
Some characters from various different projects I seem to find myself working on simultaneously – some in the pipeline, others may never see the light of day. All good fun, though. I’ve realised that one project I’ve not actually mentioned on my own blog is ink+PAPER, a comic magazine I’m editing and publishing, due ...
Queen Mum workshop @ Orbital Comics
As part of the ongoing International Alternative Press Festival, I’m hosting a workshop at the wonderful Orbital Comics shop in London this Thursday from 6:30-8pm. Do come along – no need to book. I’ll be giving a bit of “insight” into my Queen Mum comics, then we shall create STUFF together – it will be ...
