A little while ago, I interviewed comics artist Garen Ewing about his adventure series The Rainbow Orchid. We had a very interesting chat about book illustrators from the so-called Golden Age, Ukiyo-e prints, animation, computer games and 1970s comics. Here is the interview for your edification, and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!


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Here's the third of my interviews with my brilliant creative friends.

I've known Jill Allyn Stafford since about 2002, when we first started chatting on the original SK8 Jesus messageboard. Like me, she had an interest in many forms of visual arts and funny anecdotes, and even when I stopped being active on any messageboards, she was one of the ( Read more... )

This is the second part of the interview; read the first part here.

What are your favourite things about your local area? And what are your least favourite?

I love the atmosphere of the South Bank, the river, the architecture, the tourists, the kids who come from miles around to fall off skateboards… Someone once described it to me as London’s ( Read more... )

Last year I mentioned that I intended to interview some of the clever creative people that I know. Here is the second of those interviews, with photographer Jon Cartwright, aka Jonny2005.

I first got to know Jon through mutual drinking buddies a few years ago. We'd occasionally see each other at the same social events, but it wasn't until we ( Read more... )

One of the things that I'd planned to do when I launched this new site back in September was to use the space to interview some of the interesting creative people I know. Here we have the first of these, a Q&A with cartoonist Gary Northfield.

I first met Gary at the Bristol Comics Festival in 2001, browsing the small press table that was run by ( Read more... )