The Summer of our (my) discontent
Updates A short one this week as summer is beginning to bloom here in the UK and I am, of course, suffering from the worst bout of cold and flu. Because why...
A Darkroom of Ideas
Updates Thank you to all who pledged money to the Headspace Kickstarter campaign. Fully funded! (If you're after another Kickstarter project to back then I...
A Pleasurable Headace: Resolution Run
Updates This one is going out slightly earlier today as in a few hours I will just be about to start running the 5K Resolution Run in aid of The Stroke...
A Pleasurable Headache: Grab a little Headspace
Updates Not a long one this week as things seem to be in that "I have projects, so many projects, but none are at the stage where I gab about them here"...
A Pleasurable Headache: The Calls Are Coming from Inside the House
Updates The switchover in newsletter services seemed to go swimmingly, with people digging the simplicity of the layout. For those interested, I'm using a...
A Pleasurable Headache #48 - New number, who dis?
Intro A purposefully short one this week, as I'm moving the newsletter over to a new provider. This is partially driven by the fact that TinyLetter is going...
Beware the Moon, Stay off the Twitter
Work-wise it’s been an interesting few weeks. I’ve done an initial batch of edits for NS Paul‘s second issue of Resurrection Men. Click through to his...
What Makes You Beautiful
First up, welcome to the boat load of new subscribers to the newsletter. I’m assuming most of you are here because of the shout out the excellent and...
Sisyphus & the vomit draft
First up, some updates. The Metropo Tumblr continues to post some cool updates. We recently posted up a tale from the book with art by Naomi Franquiz. Go and...
The Wrong Way
Firstly, as many of you know, Beautiful Canvas #1 came out this week from Black Mask Studios. The book was written by Ryan K Lindsay with art by Sami Kivela,...
Updates, going deep on Moon Knight and links (!!)
First proper day of sunshine of the year and I am burnt all over. This is my curse. /// Let us run down some projects, shall we? Beautiful Canvas #1, of...
Vote, Order, Update
A short one this week, I'm afraid. Storing up some mental bandwidth as I have a few editorial projects to attend to next week, the news is horrid (again) and...
Naked Frenchmen and the Dark Cloud
Like most things, it started with a naked Frenchman and the promise of armageddon. Or, to be less dramatic, it started with the latest episode of The...
Rounding out a trilogy, fortnightly updates, and lots of links.
A note to begin this week's edition. I'm going to be taking the newsletter so that it's sent out every two weeks rather than weekly. I made this decision for...
Can I kick it?
A short one this week as my cup runneth over. First up, some more Beautiful Canvas. Ryan has set up a Tumblr for the comic and he's currently posting various...
A reluctant assassin, a worker droid and a drone operator walk into a bar.
It's Easter Sunday and I got chocolate to eat, so lets get to it! First up, Multiversity Comics dropped a great Beautiful Canvas interview with Ryan and Sami...
Cutting Through The Noise - A System
This week's edition will be a little bit more techy, a little bit more 'inside baseball' than usual. I've spoken in previous newsletters about information...
Killian, I'll be back!
Not much in the way of independent content this week, I'm afraid, just a whole bunch of links. I just ran the Loughborough Half Marathon with a cold that has...
A discussion, an announcement and no links.
First up, if you haven't already, then please go and subscribe to Ryan K Lindsay's newsletter here. It'll make the rest of this newsletter make infinitely...
Attention Economy 101
If there's one thing I've learned over the last few years it's that someone's attention can only be split so many ways. Case in point, I know I haven't been...
King of the 9-Panel Grid
I've been reading a lot of Tom King recently. He's had a pretty meteoric rise since getting his start in mainstream comics. His work on The Vision and Batman...
Dude, where's my content?
A bit of a quick one this week, I'm afraid. But, I do have some good stuff lined up in the coming weeks. Post-ECCC craziness I should be putting out the...
Breaking In
So, to kick off this week I wanted to go back into the distant mists of two weeks ago. Here I recounted how I stumbled into the heady world of freelance...
Emergency Protocol X120217
This week has been a wash. I spent Tuesday evening, all day Wednesday and Thursday in bed. Flu on its own is just about manageable. Flu with acid reflux so...
How to stumble into becoming an editor in three rambling steps
Something a bit more focused this week. ### Firstly, hello to all the new subscribers who are here after Ryan K Lindsay gave me a shout-out on his very own...
I'm making this up as I go!
So the last week saw me take on another editing gig. I'm not sure I'm allowed to say what it is yet, but what I *can* say is that it's creator owned and that...
A New Hope
We now live in a world where the President of the United States disputes well-established facts. The media shows you proof that a lesser crowd was drawn to...
Coffee and Links
I'm really up against it this week. I have a *lot* to get done today, so this will be a bit shorter than the last few weeks. ### Firstly... Why yes, that...
Promises, promises
So with the new year comes a new set of resolutions and promises. This year I have the added bonus of this platform to make them all public, theoretically...
Celluloid 2016
So, 2017 is here in all its resplendent glory. Goals are set, energy is restored and the future is yet to be written. So, let's get on with it. ### A week...
Idiot Box
So, I forgot to click send on this one after writing it. Doh! ### As promised, here are some of my favourite TV shows from this year: Atlanta Donald Glover...
The calm before the storm
Another week, another interview for Go Home. This one is an interview and a review on Comic Crusaders. They had some really nice things to say about the book...
Work Smart
A bit of an introspective newsletter this week as one project winds down and the new year rolls ever closer. ### There are a few more interviews to come out...
The Crunch
I'm starting this on a Saturday because my work cup runneth over right now. This will be a fairly short one this week as I have a weekend of reaching out to...
Flash Message
A bit of a short one this week as I'm really up against it work-wise. As mentioned last week, Go Home, a digital one-shot from myself and Andrew Herbst will...
Opening Salvo
Hey, so everyone and his dog has an email newsletter these days. I'm subscribed to quite a few myself (I'll run through which ones in a future entry, I...