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
"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
Hello. Dan Watters here. If you don't know me, I'm a comic book writer, currently writing Nightwing at DC, Doctor Who at Titan, and Destro for Skybound's Energon Universe. The internet has become a strange sort of wasteland in which to peddle one'