I was about to talk for a bit tonight about world-building. But, the anecdotes that were going to drive a bit of that discussion were actually around incremental mythology and what inspired me as a kid, so that's what I'm going to turn this into ( Read more... )

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Too Busy Thinking About Comics is what it says right there on the box, kids. Since discovering it a month or so, it's quickly become one of my favourite blogs. The author, Colin Smith, provides reviews - no, scratch that, that's far too small a word... dare I say, philosophic musings? yes, I do dare - on concepts of storytelling, psychology, ( Read more... )

I am the third of three children, the second boy. That meant hand-me-downs, and in my case hand-me-down comics. My older brother didn't have a huge amount of comics, but he did have a fair-sized stack of black and white omnibus reprints. The covers had been torn off long ago, but it didn't matter - what mattered where the stories inside. It was ( Read more... )

And the word for today is RELIEF, gigantic, enervating, soul-lightening relief. But that's a story for another day.

Instead, I'm here to talk about Daytripper.

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