This made me laugh ...

My collaborator on Robot Shorts, Steve Holder, sent me the link for these T-shirts ...

all I need now is print TO THE WORLD'S FASTEST MAN ? under it and I have just the T-shirt for Conventions. Thanks for spotting them Steve :o)

If you're interested in buying this as is of course then just then pop over to H&M. :o)

'A Place To Hang Your Cape' reviews Fastest Man and Invisible Man.

David Molofsky has reviewed both of our Blessed/Cursed books over at A Place To Hang Your Cape, and there's also an Interview up there as well.
This week, and the next, will be spent getting ready for the Copenhagen Con, Gary Crutchley, the driving force behind WesterNoir has produced some special sketches for the show, I wonder if I'll allow people to buy them though... The always busy Gary has posted the title page for Issue 3 up on his blog. In a word... awesome.

...and a new review of Whatever Happened To The World's Fastest Man ?

... can be found at www.liberationfrequency.co.uk.

Whatever Happened To The World's Fastest Man ?

Well, he may have ended up on your iPAD.
Yep, through a new independent comics app available through iTunes you can now download Whatever Happened To The World's Fastest Man?
The Lush Comics app for the iPad can be found by either browsing http://lushcomics.com/ipad, which will redirect you to the app, or by just searching for "Lush Comics" in the iTunes App Store. The iPad version is "Lush Comics HD" as opposed to the iPhone version, simply called "Lush Comics". Justin, who created the app etc, is a keen supporter of Independent Comics and created this app as he saw a gap in the market and wanted to allow us to have a presence in the digital world that didn't find us hidden amongst the countless X-Men titles.
It'd be great to see more UK comics up on iTunes, if you would like me to connect you with Justin then let me know.

In other news, I've been busy lettering some ZOMBIES 2 pages and trying to complete Robot Shorts, but every time I think that's it I think of another story I'd like to add... it will be printed by end of the year though...

There and back again... by train.

Well I've had a week at the new job now and am releaved to say that I'm really enjoying it. There're a lot of things to learn about the IT Systems of my new employer, there are a lot of new people to meet and acronyms to navigate , but that's all good.


My biggest concern really was the traveling. I've swapped a 20 minute door to door car journey in the morning and evening for a 45 minute train journey, with 10 minutes at each end, making it just over an hour of traveling. It was one of my concerns when taking the new role. Would I hate the journey every morning and every night ?

My wife provided me with this helpful little guide of things to do if the train crashes, from her Worst Case Scenario desk calendar...

which was nice. Good to see she cares... I'm not really sure how much warning you'd get anyway, but I guess it's the thought that counts.

Anyway, I'm quite enjoying the journey as it gives me time to catch up on my reading. And I mean 'book' reading... you know... those things without pictures in them? At home I tend to spend all of my available reading time going through a pile of comics, so it's great to be able to get back into books.

So, what was the first book I read on the train that cold Monday morning? The Solomon Kane Stories by Robert E. Howard, what else? hat an ability Mr Howard had to conjure up fabulous settings, creepy adversaries and compelling central characters. I've read most of these stoties before but I'm still really enjoying re-reading them. The only sad thing is that the movie they made really didn't capture a lot of the mood of the character or the settings. Not as bad, by far, as the Conan movies, I nearly walked out of the cinema for the first one, but not as good as they could have, or should have, been.

I think I may have to invest in a Kindle though as it's difficult fitting big heavy books into my back pack, and I'm still not totally convinced I'd make enough use of an iPAD to justify the cost. Decisions, decisions.


This week I also got some great news from Gal Editora, the publishers of the Brazilian edition of Whatever Happened To The World's Fastest Man? They are going to second print, having shifted almost all of the first edition.

They've added some new quotes on the back and a little Second Printing title on the cover image.

but the rest of it is unchanged. They've done very well and we're really happy with the relationship. I guess if you live in Brazil, are considering picking up a copy and prefer First Editions, then you might want to pick up a copy sooner rather than later.

The Eagle Has Landed...

Well we did it :o)

Whatever Happened To The World's Fastest Man ? has won the EAGLE award for Favourite Bristich Black and White Comic published in 2009.

We collected the award at the London EXPO MCM event last weekend, a shame that we couldn't all be there and as it was Colin and I couldn't make it down for the awards ceremony and actually received it on Sunday in the end.

As you can imagine I'm feeling pretty happy at the moment :o)

The Fastest Man In Brazil...

Mauricio of Gal Editora sent this photo from a recent convention over there... Fastest Man gets a great position on the poster :o) Mauricio is pleased with how it's selling, which is great news.

Eagle Awards 2009

Well, Whatever Happened To The World's Fastest Man ? has been nominated by some kind soul for Favourite British Black and White Comic over on http://www.eagleawards.co.uk/nomination.aspxhttp://www.eagleawards.co.uk/nomination.aspx

so if you read it, liked it and think it worthy of such an award then please pop over and register your opinion on the appropriate drop down.

I think the 5 with the most such votes go through to a panel of our peers for the final vote.

Fastest Man review ...

.. and another great review here http://davescomicsuk.blogspot.com/2010/02/presuming-on-his-senses-whatever.html.

Fastest Man review

Came across another great review over at http://www.ifanboy.com/reviews/akamuu/comics/whatever_happened_to_the_worlds_fastest_man_one-shot.

Whatever Happened To The World's Fastest Man ? has landed ....

... in the UK anyway .. and gets a mention over on
http://downthetubescomics.blogspot.com/

.... and they also mention that we are in talks with Gal Editora, a Brazilian comic publisher, about printing a Portuguese version ... that'll be cool.

It's in the shops ....

Whatever Happened To The World's Fastest Man ? is now available in the UK stores.

If you can't find one and want to read it then can you please ask your local comic shop to order you a copy through Diamond. It'll help raise our numbers with Diamond and give our next book the best chance of them listing it.

Great to see the comic on the shelf in Millennium Comics in Nortwich. Thanks to Dan for ordering a good number of them.

Merry Christmas Everyone ....

I'd like to thank all those who have supported us over the last year, either with contributions to our books, advice, feedback, reviews or just words of encouragement. It all helps and is great appreciated.

A couple of interviews have made there way to the web ...

Firstly a podcast interview, which also gave me a chance to chat to the guys over on Tales From The Parent's Basement, can be downloaded over on http://talesfromtheparentsbasement.com/ and secondly an interview conducted by email can be read over on http://www.sfsite.com/columns/booknews310.htm.

I tried to sound lively and energetic on the podcast but I'm afraid my natural character kept breaking through .. still ... hope you enjoy it ... it was fun to do.

Robot Shorts - A to Z. K is for ...

OK .. so 'K' had to be Kingdom. Kingdom first appears in the ROBOTS anthology, and his look is pure INDIO! We liked the whole set up to much that we then drafted in Jon Ayre and together wrote a 7 issue mini-series around him ... titled Stephenson's Robot. This will be a full colour production, the first issue is already coloured and issue 2 is fully inked and awaiting colouring. It looks really amazing and allows INDIO! to show just how damned talented he is.

In other news here's another review of Whatever Happened To The World's Fastest Man ?

http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2009/whatever-happened-to-the-worlds-fastest-man/

and it's another great one :o)

I need to knuckle down now to doing some Strange Times pages as the web comic over on the

http://www.accentukcomics.com

site has just completed the pages that are in Book 1 (as I won't be putting up the Secret Origin of Mr. Rock) ... and although I have started Book 2, the web comic is fast catching up with pages that I have finished. Made all the worse by the fact that I'm sat here with a cold ... still .. nobody said it would be easy :o)

New Fastest Man review ...

OK ... when I read this one I thought that I might have written it myself and somehow hacked it onto the Newsarama website ... and then I remembered I'm not that clever :o)

Check it out ... http://www.newsarama.com/comics/091103-Best-Shots-Advanced.html, although I do seem to have trouble accessing the website at the moment ... maybe I imagined it after all.

Pop over to see Jason Cobley's review of Fastest Man ...

Jason Cobley picked up a copy of ''Whatever Happened To The World's Fastest Man ?'' at the BICS event and has written some very nice words about it over on his blog ...

http://jasoncobley.blogspot.com/

... Thanks Jason .. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

I also had asome great feedback from people at the MCM event, professionals, self publishers and comic book readers .... it really does make it all worthwhile ...

another Whatever Happened To The World's Fastest Man ? Review ...

... can be found over on http://www.comicshopvoice.co.uk/reviews/comics/Whatever%20Happened%20to%20the%20World%27s%20Fastest%20Man.htm .... :o)