060: kaffeeklatsch

April 5, 2018

Hullo. Mum update: she hasn't got the last newsletter, so presumably has been eaten alive by the spam-filter or she hasn't approved it, which means we're...

059: a half-harmonized scream

March 21, 2018

Hullo. Since last time, I told my mum that I had a mailing list and now she's signed up so expect less swearing from now on. Contents! Not Losing My Wedge...

058: my hell is now empty.

March 7, 2018

Hullo. Today's work has been entirely derailed, because as well as having three comics out (and my work-process always gets a bit off when there's a lot of...

057: Kafka, Stalin, Orwell, Huxley, Sartre and the Marx Brothers

March 1, 2018

Hullo. As a gift to my British readers, I arranged for no comics by me to come out this week, which means there's no need to go outside and deal with the...

056: Doing The Columbo

February 21, 2018

Hullo. Put it like this: if your favourite bodily fluid is phlegm, have I got the newsletter for you. Contents! Invasion Nooooooo Yessssssss Whaaatttt?...

055: Big Beardy Alan Moore

February 7, 2018

Hullo. I suspect this will be a curt one, and mainly about the work, as I have to write a synopsis before I go off to a Black Panther showing. Yes, this is...

054: pan-geek alliance

February 1, 2018

Hullo. I'm feeling Schroedinger's sick at the moment. C has been ill for the best part of two weeks. I finally caught a taste of it on Monday, but after a...

053: I over-use the word Katamari.

January 26, 2018

Hullo. Probably a quick one this week. I mainly just want to show off Jamie and Matt's prettiness. But it is Extreme Prettiness. Contents! The Pretties. The...

052: it's not about Ludo

January 17, 2018

Hullo. I have no idea why I'm tired. I mean, I went to bed late, and woke up early, but, wait, yeah, that'll be it. Contents! Warsy Ludocraty Gamey Linksy...

051: We Live In The Shadow Of A Book Avalanche

January 11, 2018

Hullo. I am confined to this chair due to hurting my back. I can only provide words. Here they are. Here are the words, which I am, and nothing else. Hmm....

050: : like some kind of Timberlakian Aslan

January 4, 2018

Hullo. It's 2018. We survived 2017. We can survive 2018. We'll find out whether that's true or not as we progress, but it's best to go into these things with...

049: I love maps.

December 13, 2017

Hullo. I forgot to write an intro, so will have to just fill something in. Er... I got re-obsessed with Purity Ring's Fineshrine yesterday? Will that fill...

048: whether to go Full Watchmen

December 7, 2017

Hullo. Just about to go off into town to toast Ram and Ryan, who both had their first Image books released. VOID TRIP and PARADISO had an advert in the last...

047: Grouper mating involving the sharks

November 22, 2017

Hullo. A relatively quick one this month, but with actual new art in, so as long as one picture = one thousand words holds true, we should be fine. Contents!...

046: The Coming, Seeing, Conquering?

November 15, 2017

Hullo. Hmm. Let's keep this hyper short. I still want to write some of the prose sections for WicDiv 1923 that I've been avoiding, as I'm scared. People say...

045: It wars the Empire.

November 9, 2017

Hullo. I'm in celebratory mood, so I'm celebrating by doing a newsletter. I really don't think these things through at all. Contents! Star Wars! Life is...

044: International Consumerist Leviathans.

November 2, 2017

Hullo. A quick one this week. I'm running off to get a medical check-up (in order to continue my mission of Not Dying) followed by going to the pub (in order...

043: “It's a Witch.” “Thank you, Janet.” “Kill it."

October 27, 2017

Hullo. With any luck, next week will be a big download of what this month has been about. Are you aware of the old 1980s videogame Elite. Not any of its...

042: Jamie had a lizard-brain

October 11, 2017

Hullo. You may be wondering why I've had a few weeks off. Because I'm lazy, chum. I'm very, very lazy. I wish that was true. I was plotting in my sleep last...

041: I deserve a Magnum Double Caramel

September 21, 2017

Hullo. I was kind of hoping to do a round up of new and awesome work coming out at Thought Bubble this weekend. Except I totally didn't. Man! Let's put a...

040: at the bottom of a mountain covered in buses and starting a bus-avalanche

September 13, 2017

Hullo. I didn't mention it last time, but I was writing that when I was on an honest-to-god holiday. I managed to do... no work? It's not true. But I didn't...

039: you can’t do anything before you have a Frodo.

September 6, 2017

Hullo. This has been quite the week, but as it's still in process, I'll save it for next time. This time, I'll lean just the facts. Well, just the facts,...

037: the Russian doll model of comics writing.

August 23, 2017

Hullo. This is mostly a FACTS one, because I realise that as I have an hour left in the working day it may be possible to get four (count 'em!) scripts off...

037: a kind of glowy black

August 16, 2017

Hullo. Don't worry. I've got no comics out this week, so I won't be trying to make you spend any coins. Keep your coins. Save them. Get enough and you can...

036: Smart But Not As Smart As You Hope You Are

August 9, 2017

Hullo. I still need to finish off Star Wars 39 today, so this will be more of a Just The Facts one than usual... except I actually wrote a short essay during...

035: write your own happy ending

August 2, 2017

Hullo. Some days you want to sit down and write of your odd addiction to Glow, or your problems with Ready Player One on a philosophical level, or just wax...

034: he should beat me up with his fists

July 26, 2017

Hullo. Wednesday's child is full of woe. Wednesday's newsletter is full of typos. Wednesday's writer is full of tea and cornflake cluster bites, oh god, he's...

033: what games journalists were like while hungover

July 12, 2017

Hullo. I've managed to write my pages for today in the morning, and it's only 3pm, and if I get this done quickly, I think I can finish this and get some...

032: be careful with unleashing your pithy aphorisms

July 5, 2017

Hullo. Hmm. The sort of week that was so busy that I didn't get anything done. Sometimes you spin the plates, and sometimes the plates spin you. Let's write...

031: the phrase “mucustard”

June 28, 2017

Hullo. It's been quite a selection of weeks. My rhythm for these things has been thrown off due to a variety of things – frankly, there's been some...

030: I'm sorry for your pain.

June 7, 2017

Hullo. Today I am feeling happier, fitter, more productive. I am writing this in a coffee shop and I am ignoring the blueberry crumble that is making eyes at...

029: (Wow. What a lot of parentheticals.)

May 31, 2017

Hullo. I got a new router this week, and it is basically the greatest thing. The hyperplague that has infected my body (aka A Mild Cold) has rendered me...

028: don't worry, it's not that, serious, etc.

May 24, 2017

Hullo. A quick one this week, as I'm under the weather. Don't have too much sympathy for me. It's just a standard low-level cold. I'm working at about 80%,...

027: that dimension is inside my chest.

May 17, 2017

Hullo. Contents! When In Rome, Do Romans A Bunch Of Fuckwits Don't Hate the Player, Hate The Games Master. Byeeeeeeeeeee! **** After months of anticipation,...

026: an ominous meat-ball.

May 10, 2017

Hullo. I would like to make it clear that I married an Italian for reasons other than her ability to cook pasta sauces, but if this newsletter is suddenly...

025: We Came. We Saw. We Command & Conquered.

May 3, 2017

Hullo. Oddly big week, for a bunch of reasons. That you're not getting a joke first line probably says that. Details of it some herein. Contents! We Came. We...

024: A guillotine rather than a rack

April 20, 2017

Hullo. The Windy City is Mighty Windy that's why they call it The Windy City, you fool, stop wasting my time, just get away from me, you make me sick....

023: genre on fire

April 12, 2017

Hullo. This week I don't need anyone tweeting at me to remind me if I have books out. I need people tweeting at me to remind people of all the books I have...

022: Gynty The Roo

April 5, 2017

Hullo. I'm in the sort of work place where I need someone tweeting at me that I have a comic out this week to realise I have a comic out this week. Contents!...

021: the feeling is bittersweet and vertiginous

March 31, 2017

Hullo. A skip week after 20 weekly newsletters seems pretty good to me. But I am famously lazy, so what would I know, eh? Contents! Boston Purgatory Call me...

020: the aim is always to do Hyperballad on paper

March 16, 2017

Hullo. This one is going to be very quick, as I'm about to run off to the London Book Fair, and if I do it when I get home, the kickstarter I want to talk...

019: get to Mount Doom and win.

March 8, 2017

Hullo. I'm thinking of the sequencing of these things. I normally start with “this is important relevant work stuff” which is on one hand, what this is for...

018: what time is love?

March 2, 2017

Hullo. Flying to Milan to launch the Italian edition of WicDiv seems very on brand, somehow. (Hi, Jamie!) Contents! ComickyUpdate The year was 455, when...

017: Greg Pak For Food

February 21, 2017

Hullo. Every time I put on my “This is the darkest timeline T-shirt” it feels less like a pop cultural reference and more like being the guy with the...

016: awesome angry Scots

February 14, 2017

Hullo. It's Valentines Day. I send you my love. My love looks exactly the same as a newsletter. I know, it's disappointing, but imagine how awful my wedding...

015: a little ray of silly joy in hell

February 8, 2017

Hullo. Chaos in the writing. Chaos in the comics production. Chaos on the streets of burrrmingham. Contents! Imperial Phase sure is Imperial Phasing this...

013: better existent sources

January 24, 2017

Hullo. Contents! ANDRE-455 IS ALIVE. EL ACTO FAUSTICO! This Week Uber: Invasion 2 is so serious I can't make a joke here 2000AD Is History Humblegrab...

012: Aren't you exactly the right size for a miniature?

January 17, 2017

Hullo. Contents! Aphra 3tosity. Aren't you exactly the right size for a miniature? An attempt at being nice Workworkworkwork The Self Indulgents. *** There...

011: speederbikes powered by an irrepressible trumpet

January 12, 2017

Hullo. A very short one this week, unless I start rambling about pop music as an attempt to put off working out for another half hour. Contents! WicDiv26Done...

010: a WicDiv Coffeeshop AU is rudely disrupted.

January 4, 2017

Hullo. 2017, you are looking good. Have you cut your hair? What? That's not hair! Your hair has mouthes! And teeth! Back off, 2017! Leave me alo-- Contents!...