I am trying to catch up with the comics and graphic novels I have bought but not read. I have two "Love and Rockets" collections which were half price in a Forbidden Planet sale. If you ever wondered where the "and Rockets" came from the collection I am reading would tell you ( Read more... )

I was in Orbital Comics store on Thursday during my epic walk from Bethnal Green to Picadilly Circus. They were repainting their little gallery in what I have to describe as "Watchman Yellow".

I think it was for this exhibition. I've been reading Freakangels by Warren Ellis and Paul Duffield, but don't know about Duffield's other work, or ( Read more... )

I've been rather bad about my comics. I have about three years worth of 2000AD bought when I was at college, plus several years from the early eighties, and some a bit later than that. They have been in plastic shopping bags (mostly Forbidden Planet bags) 10 or 20 at a time. Finally they have been stored in cardboard boxes - which probably weren't ( Read more... )

So I have done zero words on my NaNoWriMo. The problem is that I want to plan enough so that the story just falls out. Yeah, right.

Anyway I have been thinking about software to display character interactions and suddenly XKCD does a comic about precisely that

2009. I wonder when the first Car Boot Sales are starting near me. The weather is pretty crap right now for driving and walking through a field ( Read more... )

In the last four days I have bought six phone books.