Writing

The Tools of the Trade: Brushes

Posted on 7th March 2026 by PJH

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

Posted on 23rd February 2026 by PJH

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…

Posted on 22nd February 2026 by PJH

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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Hair Today

Posted on 23rd January 2026 by PJH

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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Copyright in the age of AI

Posted on 17th November 2023 by PJH

I’m gonna preface all of this with I am NOT a lawyer, and copyright law, especially, is one where frequently the winner is the person in court with the most money. So below is largely my opinion… Copyright isn’t a
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Time moves relentlessly on…

Posted on 18th October 2023 by PJH

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

Posted on 11th October 2023 by PJH

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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A4 Issue Two!

Posted on 21st August 2023 by PJH

Issue Issue 2 of PJ Holden’s A4 – a free micro fiction ‘zine. This issue contains the stories: Death Awaits, Love at its Core, Body-Fu, Tok Tik, A Reflection of You, The Shimmering Tower and Command Download the PDF

A4 Issue 1 July 2022

Posted on 15th July 2023 by PJH

Hey! Look, I did it! A proper issue 1 of my A4 ‘zine, A4! Most of these stories were written in a flurry of activity after I’d finished the zero issue – itself more a test of concept than anything
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Film Night!

Posted on 10th January 2023 by PJH

So, I did the first class – a sort of introductory who-we-are-and-what-our-favourite-films-are, two hour thing. (For the record, I said my favourite film is The Big Lebowski – which I think it is, probably the film I’ve seen the most,
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