Some manner of bloglike thing

New site design

Decided it was time to give the place a new lick of paint. I’ve been rethinking how to handle my online gubbins lately, and this is part of it. I’m not going to make any bit resolution promises right now because I don’t want to jinx things, but after going to ThoughtBubble 2010 I’ve been rather inspired.

Not to mention still reeling from the inspirational mess of awesome that was this summer. (My voice has maybe just about recovered. Though I think I may have applied a brand new shiny cold by waiting in the snow for a bus for an hour on Tuesday.)

Anyway, much to do, much to think about. But I’ll be back in touch soon, so watch this space.

Review: ‘The Servants’ by Michael Marshall Smith

I’ve always had a bit of a love for Michael Marshall Smith’s work. His SF books are fantastic, and I hugely enjoyed The Straw Men, under his Crime Fiction persona of Michael Marshall. I adore his character work, though he seems to shine best when he has licence for things to get a little strange. So, I was really excited when I realised he’d donned another hat as ‘M. M. Smith’ and written a YA novel. Well, ‘Novella’ technically, but that really is just a technicality with this one.
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More Cave Story!

I just got featured over at the NICALiS Cave Story blog. Go check it out, and the rest of the featured artists. There’s some killer work there and I’m honoured to be a part of it.

Interview Go!

A quick update, some sketches and some musing

Things have been a little mental lately, but back to say hi again and give you some rambling updates.

MG&GL has been going pretty well so far, although the slow speed I’m able to work on it is being a little excruciating. Jack and I actually have quite a lot of story planned out for the thing that I can’t wait to get to. And in the mean time it’s been fun to draw, and an interesting challenge adapting his prose into single-page suitable scripts (when I’m much more used to working long-form.) Continue Reading

New Comic!

As part 1 in my ‘GET STUFF DONE THIS YEAR’ plot, I’ve been working furiously with the lovely Calico Jacque to bring you our first go at a weekly web comic!

Minnie Gunn and the Gentlelady Thief

(You might recognise the seeds of this thing here…)

We’ve been having a lot of fun working on it, I hope you have as much fun reading it.

In other news, I have a whole bunch of Workshops in the pipeline, focused in North Yorkshire. Watch this space for more details.

Have a good one, shiny happy people!