I do one of these every year around new years day, this was from 2015. Unfortunately after shutting down my old blog the 10 years worth of these all disappeared. But here’s one that I have… And here’s a brief
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Day: 14 February 2024
Drawing tanks
From an imagineFX Article
Numbercruncher interview from the archives
With me and Si Spurrier. I can’t remember where this ran, so forgive the uncredited nature of it. But it might be fun.. So the book has been described as “a time-twisting romantic thriller-noir metaphysical black comedy”. Can we
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Sometimes you’ll get stuck
It happens. It’s not a great feeling. And you’ll struggle and go through several cycles of “I can’t do this” “Why can’t I do this” “I’m crap at this” You may even find something else to do that – be
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Who knew there were rip off micron pens
These are not the microns you’re looking for. Top is a genuine. Below that all fake. Differences seem to be the quality of the non just isn’t as good and the ink isn’t as water resistant as the proper microns.
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One Pager Strontium Dog
I used to love doing single page stories. Could spend a few hours and do a complete goofball story. I slightly regret the language in this on the other hand it’s so barmy it doesn’t feel like I’m making fun
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Pitches
I’ve pitched many things to 2000AD and had zero success with any of them. On the other hand, often when an artist ditches, the series has come to me. Whereupon I (unintentionally) kill it. RIP Samizdat Squad.
Yes.
It’s probably by who you’re thinking. But it’ll be five months of war… You’ll get the inside dope, I’m sure. Including how do I get those tanks so dead-on accurate, and “is war really hell?” (As long as you keep
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Writing comics week 1: class notes
So here we go again. Had the first of the six week creating comics class at the Irish writers centre in Dublin. I enjoyed it, hopefully others did too. Week 1 was about creating stories. Specifically Future Shocks. 2000ad’s short
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Teaching Comics
Tomorrow I start teaching my six week course on creating comics (in Dublin). It’s all built around creating future shocks, but filled, I hope, with interesting/useful observations (and really it’s about any sort of short story writing). Each class is
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