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)

My annual iPhone photo clear out.

I'm forever running out of space on my iPhone, I know I should have bought one with more storage, but hindsight is a wonderful thing. 

Anyway, you can't keep all the photos on there forever and letting iCloud store them somewhere means I'll probably never look at them again, so I think from now on I'll pop them up on the blog at the end of the year, and then delete them from my iPhone.

I see this tree whenever I walk my dog
and love looking up at its twisting branches.

and of course, play with them a little in photoshop, putting a frame around them and the like.

These two are of a table at the art class I took earlier in the year. I want to learn how to paint with acrylics, and whilst the teacher made me use water colour I did learn a lot and certainly got the bug. Sadly events conspired against me though and I never made it to a second term.

The next three are things I just came across when out and about. That's the really great thing about having a camera on your phone. You see something, you can just take a photo.

Cotton Man.

Guano man

and this toy lizard seemed real when caught out of the corner of my eye, basking as it was in the sunlight.

And anyone with a teenage girl will know how difficult it is to get them to pose for the camera, or actually to allow a photo to be taken at all. So I take advantage of every opportunity that presents itself...

Jemma having a photo taken
for her Provisional Driving Licence.

No snow so...

I took some photos of spider's webs with frosted dew on them a while ago...

Kinda Christmasy...

just try to forget that they were made by spiders...

I'd forgotten all about this...

Back in 2008 when severe floods were quite new to us in the UK, I contributed to an anthology looking to raise awareness and money to help out.

John Freeman, having a better memory than me, posted about it over on www.facebook.com and you can purchase the finished article in pdf form over at www.lulu.com

Strange Times Book 2 is ready for the printers.

Well, after a lot longer than I'd hoped, due mostly to me getting carried away with having too many projects on the go at the same time, Strange Times Book 2 is finished.
Andy Bloor has once again worked his design magic and also done a lot of tidying, despite me best efforts I always seem to leave dots here and there or pages with different sizes ... sigh.
I'm not sure when it'll actually see print, I'll need to get the necessary cash together, but it will be sometime in 2016.
It'll be great to have another of my little books on the Con table.

Tales Of WesterNoir #2 is at the printers.

Tales of WesterNoir Issue 2 will be available at the first Convention of 2016.
I've just received the proof copy from our Printer, Stuart Gould, and it looks great.

Cover art is from WesterNoir co-creator Gary Crutchley and is coloured as always by Matt Soffe.
This issue has two tales of Jim Wilson in the role of Monster Hunter with artwork from Mal Earl and Joe Campbell. Two very different styles both work very well with stories from myself and Gary respectively.

All wrapped up with the design eye and talent of Andy Bloor.
Should be a great start to the year.

Events of 2015 .... what a busy year.

We've had a really busy year from a Convention perspective this year, and have enjoyed all of them.

Some will disappear but most will continue and most of those that do will see us return.

There are some new ones that we have heard about and are looking to add, but before I update the list with 2016s dates, I thought I'd cut and paste the 2015 calendar here.

15th Feb - DemonCon9 - Maidstone

18th Apr - Birmingham Comics Festival

2nd May - MCM - Belfast

3rd May - MCM - Belfast

16th May - Warrington Comic Con

22nd May - MCM - London

23rd May - MCM - London

24th May - MCM - London

30th May - Granite City Comic Con - Aberdeen

6th June - Copenhagen Comic Festival

7th June - Copenhagen Comic Festival

13th June - Geekbox Comics Newcastle-under-Lyme

4th July - Glasgow Comic Con

5th July - Glasgow Comic Con

25th July - MCM - Manchester

26th July - MCM - Manchester

12th Sept - Comic Con - Blackpool

23rd Oct - MCM - London

24th Oct - MCM - London

25th Oct - MCM - London

14th Nov - Thought Bubble - Leeds

15th Nov - Thought Bubble - Leeds