Sleigh Bells Ring, Are You Listening?

The closest you'll come to a present. Naughty Boy!

Is it wrong to have written a story about Christmas cannibalism?

Does reindeer decapitation capture the Festive Spirit?

Ah, well, too late to ask such questions. I don't put this stuff in my head - I take it out.

Stick a plaster on it mate, you'll be fine.

On reflection, Pete regretted the Gutbuster Burger

A snippet from a page by Dan Cornwell for The Price, a five pager that I've written. This is not the worst thing on the page. It really isn't.

I love Dan's art and am sure he'll make it big.

Something Bad.

Dave didn't like strangers touching his Kindle.

"What's this?" I hear you cry. It's only a cover by Neil McClements for my current obsession - I'm going to collect what I think are my better scripts into a bound comic, to accompany submissions in an effort to stand out from the slush pile. It's to get a logo on it.

I'm very grateful to Neil for doing it.

It's not going to be sold because the stories in it will be from other things, like Hadron Colliderscope and Zarjaz, and some of them won't have been published there by the time this is finished. And because I'm lazy. And fearful no one would be interested.

No idea if it will work. If it doesn't then is it vanity publishing, even if no one else sees it?

(And I have a three page script I'd like to put in it - if anyone wants to draw it then let me know, as I'm not printing it until November).

Waiting. Watching. With infinite patience and eternal evil...

Hello, handsome

I've been busy. Honest. A 10,000 word short story has kept me busy the last couple of months, my first prose in five or six years. I've also written up three comic shorts in the last month and now have seven scripts being drawn for various small press things.

In addition, I yesterday finished a 10 page strip featuring this chap. I'd say what it was about but am afraid that it might be rejected: it's either genius or the Worst Idea Ever. My broken and gibbering mind can no longer tell...

Where do you get your ideas from?

A teenager. Up to no good, obviously.

I'm not a professional writer by any manner of means, but even I get asked that question.

Well, here is "The Answer".

The last of my one page submissions to Clint. Now happy at Hadron Colliderscope.

Art by El Chivo. Letters by Jim Campbell.

A nose for crime...

What the sneck, indeed. This piccie is from Rich Pickings, my first ever strip for Zarjaz and my first ever Judge Dredd story. It's been drawn by George Coleman, which is great too. He's done an incredible job and I really think his art should be back in the Galaxy's Greatest Comic pronto. George's little touches and eye for detail really add to the atmosphere of the strip.

The story involves the latest future sport to hit Mega City 1 - Competitive nose picking! I'm really chuffed with it, as I think it has a real old-school Dredd vibe. Then again, I suppose I'm biased.

You can read it in a future Zarjaz.

Who's Your Daddy?

Oooh. The first new thing from me in ages and ages.

He's 'armless really.

Paradox Man is on Hadron Colliderscope. Go read it. Now! Here!

Drawn by Dan Cornwell. Lettered by Matt Brown.