Bookish vending machines
27 October 2021Vending machines are normally associated with snacks and drinks, but they can offer so much more. I remember when I travelled to Japan for the first time, nearly twenty years ago, and spotting...
A Freaky AMP review
26 October 2021Two weeks from today, on Tuesday November 9th, Volume 4 of the Cirque Du Freak manga omnibus goes on sale. Collecting books 7 and 8 of the series, it sees the starts of the second half of Darren...
An early Kidnapped paperback
25 October 2021The Volume 2 omnibus of my Archibald Lox series, collecting books 4 to 6 and presenting them as a single storyline, officially goes on sale a week from today, on Monday November 1st. That's when...
Ballybunion with the grandparents
24 October 2021Now that we're well into autumn, I'm looking back at my store of summer photos with envy. In truth, it wasn't an especially sunny summer in Ireland (is it ever?!?), but looking at these, I can...
Mr Crepsley and friends
23 October 2021Normally, when fans choose to do a drawing of Mr Crepsley, they draw him by himself, which is utterly appropriate, given he was such a solitary, brooding figure for most of his life. But sometimes...
Carleton High
22 October 2021The students in Year 7 of Carleton High School in the UK have been freakishly busy recently, basing some artistic homework assignments on my book, Cirque Du Freak.
First they were challenged to...