If you're looking to understand and study character, I'd highly recommend entering the savage world of UK Channel 4's Come Dine With Me. For the non-Brits: Come Dine With Me is a reality TV show in which four or five (depending on the season)
What's even worth saying? Writer's block does not exist, but tell me that at 2 am the day before a deadline- when the pile of scenes in front of me refuses to accrue into a story and I'm all out of Malbec- and I
Continuity in comic book worlds is an endlessly thorny subject, with hundreds of different valid takes. There are readers who would prefer everything be set in stone. That a superhero's stories (cos let's face it, we're mainly talking about that) should be tick-off-able on
Last Friday DC announced Batman: Dark Patterns. This is very much a passion project, the book I've wanted to make since I started working with DC. 12 issues of Batman solving grisly, street level crimes. I've been quietly working on it with editor Arianna Turturro for
I've been thinking about longer form story structures recently. The nature of the current comics market leans towards the miniseries, so that's primarily what I've written over the last few years. Four-to-six issues and done, then on to the next thing. The amount of
Hello. This is coming to you far later than I would have liked, but periods of intensive work tend to send me into a lockdown mode which leaves little room for much else. Now here I am, coming up for air. Hoping the surface world is still where I left
I think of the writers who made me want to write. Many of them seem to have died in ways that resemble their works and preoccupations. Samuel Beckett wrote often of people who found their selves whittled away. Going blind, unable to move, to speak, losing sensation and coherence. Beckett
Woke from a short spell of sleep paralysis. Dreaming I was in bed with my wife, looked up to see the reflection of two indistinct figures pacing towards us. Before I could turn and see them for real, they were dragging me from the bed, tangled in the sheet so
"Techno-optimism is the metallic silver frosting on the deep-baked cake of sadness on which we chew like a cud in a doomed bid to ignore the loudly howling void." Enjoyed this sentence on why Silicon Valley tech bros act the way they do from Dominic Pettman and Eugene
"During the course of a few violent weeks in Nashville, Steve was handed three dismemberment cases. The detective working one of the cases pointed to a notch in a bone and asked Steve to tell him about it. Happy to have a chance to display his expertise, Steve drew
Today it's been announced that I've partnered with Kinetic Collectibles for conventions and signings and all those good things. I've been rather slack with appearances of late- the last year in particular I was traveling so often and sporadically that it was impossible to
When Caspar Wijngaard sent me the first two issues of his The Power Fantasy with Kieron Gillen, I tweeted that it felt like we are moving into a new era of what superhero comics look & feel like. You can see it in that book. You can see it in