You know, back when I began blogging you didn’t need titles, you’d just blog. Then everything suddenly needed titles and I think it added some sort of mental barrier, because now, instead of just typing up your thoughts you were
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Category: Process
Midweek contact 8 April 2026
So, checking in on the progress, actually making great progress (so great in fact that I ended up redoing my To Do board to see if I can finish this thing this week) Start of the week: Monday – Wiped out.
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Week Starting 23 March 2025
Last week’s plans: Monday Dog tag layouts. DT pencils 1-3. Colours TO pg5Tuesday DT pencils 4-7Wednesday DT pencils 8-10Thursday DT pencils 11-14Friday DT pencils 15-18Saturday TO Pencils 10-11 (double page spread) Inks 10-11Sunday Catch up on anything I missed. So: 20 pages of pencils (hahah probably not)
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20 solid ideas for writing Future Shocks.
I’m going through my notes on my computer, just culling and tidying and stumbling across ideas. I wrote this out for a workshop some time ago, 2017 to be precise. At that point I’d written ZERO futureshocks (later on I’d
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The Tools of the Trade: Brushes
When I first broke into comics, 25 years ago kids! (16th March 2001 is my first 2000ad credit!) I somehow convinced myself that only by using a brush – a proper tool proper artists use – could I somehow be
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Naval Gazing
I’m not entirely sure when I first discovered naval oranges. I know I didn’t really think of them much as a kid, but somewhere in adult life I stumbled across them and realised these – at least in Belfast –
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Write for the job you want…
When I was 27, and before I had anything but a couple of small press credits I went to my pal Mal Coney (a Belfast comics stalwart and at one time the writer on a bunch of image books, like
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Things I should have done
Yesterdays impossible list Make a business card (last time I did this was 15 years ago and honestly, I overprinted by a few hundred and gave away … like six… comics as an industry doesn’t bother itself too much with business
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Hair Today
I have a note with a suggestion for today’s blog, it simply says “haircut”. Why it says that, I’ve no idea. I know that I got a haircut yesterday and I know I had something I’d intended to say about
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Kicking the tyres on a Kickstarter for Terran Omega
I’m starting to mull over my kickstart options and so I phoned Matt Garvey, since there’s few people know more about publishing comics on Kickstarter than matt (who, coincidentally, has a new kickstarter about to launch – The Skim, a
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