The 5th of November is the twentieth anniversary of my mum’s passing. It’s been a raw wound for a long long time. She died aged 50 and so I’ve outlived her by three years so far. She passed three months
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Month: October 2023
Dredd Poison
I was pleased with how this page turned out from Episode 2. (It’s an eight parter running in 2000ad right now) Rob wanted a lot of stars, and I wanted to give it a lot of texture. so there’s about
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Studio Tour (2023)
I’m due a studio tour, right? We’ve been in this house for around a year and there’s still a fortune worth of work to do. Outside of the studio we started by adding a new fence to the outside drive,
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Time moves relentlessly on…
Like a big unrelenting thing. Eight days since the last update. Let’s catch up, got a neat two pager to do for Monster Fun, with a tight deadline just before I went to Cheltenham (which meant I had to crush
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Funky Pencil Monkey
Spent a couple of days in a bit of a funk. The world is just … ugh. My mood has been dark (which, all jokes aside, I partially put down to binging Walking Dead which finally got to Neagan, a
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Skulduggery Pleasant Panel
Well, today was the skulduggery pleasant panel day, I sat with Nick Lake (editor) and Derek Landy (author) and watched as the crowd were in thrall to Derek (who really knows how to work his crowd) I mostly tried to
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Cheltenham!
Well, I’m in Cheltenham, I think. Largely on my own at the moment, so have taken the time to have some me time. Me time is important, guys. (Me time involves eating some food and having a nap, this stuff
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Away From Keyboard
Ok, my timing isn’t perfect, but might actually be a good thing. I’m off to Cheltenham tomorrow for the book-fest meeting Derek Landy and doing a talk. Will be back on Monday, that means I’m unlikely to get much done
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We’ll we’re off…
Null Space gets a bit of a launch write up here: https://downthetubes.net/launching-today-pj-holdens-null-space (thank you John Freeman!) Let’s see how it goes. I suppose there’s a few valuable lessons I’ve already learnt from a project like this. One I do like
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Johnny Ghoul
Well, I’m still trying to figure out the name of my undead detective. Was going to go for Johnny Ghoul, but turns out this is such a great idea lots of people have used it. Ugh. Back to the drawing
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