Kieron Gillen's Wordmail

081: an ideal Christmas Present and/or murder weapon.

September 19, 2018

Hullo. Everyone is talking about Batman's dong on twitter, but I keep on thinking about how much more dong Kris Anka provided in the WicDiv Christmas annual....

080: Spangly New Thing

September 12, 2018

Hullo. Part of me is tempted to just move the Spangly New Thing name to the latest project, and have whatever is my next book always known as Spangly New...

079: I give you humanity

September 6, 2018

Hullo. After last time's sprawl, this one is a little bit Just The Facts, if only because the next one is inevitably going to Go On A Bit with the likely...

078: “First It” and “Second It.”

August 29, 2018

Hullo. No books out this week. Just chat. Sit down. Have a biscuit. No, wait, that was the last biscuit. How dare you! We must fight. Contents! Once more...

077: nowt but a mass of insecurities with pop-songs as sticking plasters

August 23, 2018

I really should start writing these newsletters earlier in the day, when my brain is still mostly working, but it seems never to happen. Will there be a typo...

076: self-inflicted

August 16, 2018

Hullo. Arethea Franklin was just announced having died, and I tweeted: "I can't say anything to capture Aretha Franklin's greatness that isn't explained...

075: you are our pop Aslan.

August 1, 2018

Hullo. Music crushes these week is Imarhan's Tumast and Idles' Samartians. The latter is one of the best songs about toxic masculinity I've ever heard. I...

074: Her From Enchanted Meets Lovecraft

July 25, 2018

Hullo. I need to write this before cooking. In this case, a Simple Lamb Curry. When I am cooking, I always enter "Simple" into google before whatever thing I...

073: the power of ritual

July 18, 2018

Hullo. I started the last newsletter with first trying out Mitski's Nobody. I've been obsessively listening to it ever since, only alternating with Twilight...

072: plotted by a pack of drunk Labradors.

July 4, 2018

Hullo. I was going to write something serious here, but I just realised Mitski released a single last week, which has left me all excited. Join me! This is...

071: a comedy Kelvin trying to find absolute zero

June 27, 2018

Hullo. I forgot to say this last week, but I had several folk point out Olympia absolutely was released as a single. Thankfully Alex, the first, also gave me...

070: Lucifer as Nun

June 20, 2018

Hullo. It's me again. I had a brief break, for the dual reason of prioritisation (as in, I had nothing 100% essential to get out so other things took the...

069: a genre which left such deep roots and/or scars

May 31, 2018

Hullo. I'm writing this in a local coffee-shop drinking lemonade because I am such a rebel. Everyone is very impressed. Contents! Vegas Fairford Books &...

068: when is June?

May 23, 2018

Hullo. I like to think that every piece of writing poses a fundamental question that needs to be answered. This newsletter is an exploration of the question...

067: in the land of the feline elves, she was a hobbit.

May 17, 2018

Hullo. Today is very much the sort of day when I'm reminded of a bleak truth. I have a career not because of how I write when I want to write, but how you...

066: glycemic blitzkreig is my Waterloo

May 9, 2018

Hullo. Now, when I only sent the last one on Friday, do I skip a week, when I don't really have anything new to plug? Of course not, as I am driven by love,...

065: Dicey Moral Dilemmas

May 4, 2018

Hullo. Today's main thing has been watching the sort of memeic shuffle between people who still really like May The 4th as a thing, and people who are bored...

064: a little secretly-ironic arrogance

April 25, 2018

Hullo. How are you? I'm thinking about lines between the mid-period Clash singles, Marc Bolan and Destiny's Child's Lose My Breath. Because I remain me....

063: a graphic (and graphic) memoir

April 18, 2018

Hullo. Warren linked to me last time, which has led to a bunch of new followers. I can only presume it is an act of homage to my might. The Omelette Wars are...

062: milk.

April 11, 2018

Hullo. No comics out today, so no real need to write, except for the fact I need to give my subconscious some space to chew over how a fight scene is going...

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...