Strange Animals / 2022 / #5: Between a Quarter and a Third
I’ve got myself into this terrible habit of writing half a newsletter, and then coming back to it much later, and what I was trying to say is either already...
Strange Animals / 2022 / #4: The Comics Creator’s Technical Handbook (Part 2)
April last year, I posted the first part of The Comics Creator’s Technical Handbook, as I called it. Crowd goes wild! It was easily the most shared article...
Strange Animals / 2022 / #3: Yeses and Nos
One of those lovely Twitter bots tells me that more than 10% of the year is already done. It’s been an interesting couple of months. I’ve actually managed to...
Strange Animals / 2022 / #2: Atomic
Funny story. After I got my first newsletter of the year out on the 8th, I – quite optimistically – made a private resolution to send one of these out every...
Strange Animals / 2022 / #1: Ways with Words
Hi! I hope your first week or so of 2022 has passed reasonably well. If it makes you feel better, everything happening in the world now has happened before...
Strange Animals / 2021 / #11: You Say Goodbye, I Say Hello
Let’s do a final one for the year, shall we? This is the 11th newsletter this year, so I managed almost one every month. I don’t think that’s too bad, though...
Strange Animals / 2021 / #10: Writing Writing
This newsletter thing is really blowing up, isn’t it? I don’t mean my specific newsletter – but newsletters in general. As a lot of people have been saying...
Strange Animals / 2021 / #9: A Mid-Season Update
It’s been a few months since I was last in your inbox, but I figured I’d give you an update since just about half the year is gone. The reception to the...
Strange Animals / 2021 / #8: The Comics Creator’s Technical Handbook (Part 1)
Right. Let’s make some changes around here, shall we? I’ve always wanted to write this as a weekly newsletter, because the idea of regularity pleases me, and...
Strange Animals / 2021 / #7: Shy Hi
Hello! It’s been a while, hasn’t it? And I was doing so well too – I’d managed more or less a post every week. But then I fell ill for a bit, after which my...
Strange Animals / 2021 / #6: Senses
A sneak peek of Home Sick Pilots #5, art by Caspar Wijngaard, lettering by me. /// I have, as I declared on Twitter, decided upon two laws of horror: Horror...
Strange Animals / 2021 / #5: Could Be Better
Art by John Pearson, from “Learn to Swim”, Razorblades #3, Feb 2021. /// It’s a quick one this time. I’ve got a main essay and an update, but nothing else...
Strange Animals / 2021 / #4: Slates and Plates
Art by Martin Simmonds, from The Department of Truth #5. /// On Cal Newport’s recommendation, I’ve ordered Beginners by Tom Vanderbilt, and in the meantime,...
Strange Animals / 2021 / #3: Out in the Open
Art by Anand RK, from the upcoming Radio Apocalypse. /// I’ve been thinking of something that went missing with the evolution of pulp comics into corporate...
Strange Animals / 2021 / #2: Not at Home
Art by Martin Simmonds, from The Department of Truth #4, published December 23rd, 2020. /// I’m writing this sitting at my neighbourhood café, and I’m...
Strange Animals / 2021 / #1: The Slow Rev
Art by Caspar Wijngaard, from Home Sick Pilots #2, out next week. /// So, I’m coming into the new year having just found out that I’m diabetic, and that this...
Strange Animals 30dec2020: Live in Hope
And here we are. Final edition of the year. I’ll be honest, I’ve been trying to write this one for a week now, and it ended up much longer than I’d intended....
Strange Animals 09dec2020: Wherever You Go, There You Are
Yes, yes. I’ve been missing for a few weeks now, and I owe you Part 2 of an essay. Sorry about that. The first week or two I missed because I was writing,...
Strange Animals 09nov2020: See Me Work
Nothing important happened last week, huh. How about that? Weirdly, though, while everyone was glued to their timeline, my October social media hiatus...
Strange Animals 02nov2020: It’s Only November Again
Keeping this one short. I got back on Twitter today, and it immediately wrecked my productivity. (Just kidding. It’s been one of those weeks, and I’m...