AccentUK Themed Anthologies available once again.

John Freeman has done a really nice article over on DownTheTubes.net letting people know that the AccentUK Themed Anthologies are available once again.

I really enjoyed pulling together a themed anthology when I was part of AccentUK.

As editor of these I looked for up and coming creators (mostly) and for diversity of the story being told. I still remember having to reject a large number of Western vengeance stories.

There were some real corkers in each of the books, and the quality of all was really impressive.

It's shame that they've been out of print for many years, and at recent Cons people have been asking for them to get signed, and talking about about them with the customers I remembered how good they were.

Wouldn't it be good to have them in circulation once again. Not as physical books but maybe digital downloads.

So, I've made them available for a free download on 4DComics.com.

If you have work in one of these then I'm happy for you to put it up on your own websites, but please don't change for it as this would be unfair to other contributors.

Cursed Blessings Vol Two - cover

As Ian Ashcroft has done such a fab job on the cover of Volume One I thought I'd nip in and get the cover sorted for Volume Two (even though it won't be printed for a while).

I sent him the 'Has Kane Mesmer Lost His Magic Touch?' story illustrated by Marleen Lowe and he produced this great image.

Volume Two will also include 'Missing - Have You Seen The Invisible Man?' and artist Joe Campbell has requested the opportunity to improve a few things here and there. It's quite typical of artists to look back on old work and want to work on it again even though there was nothing wrong with it 😆

I also intend to write a short sequel to the Peter Thomson story, with Gustaffo Vargas returning to do the art. We'll see how it goes, I have an idea so it should all be fine.

Dungeons & Dragons - Weekend 2 in 2026

As is traditional now, the D&D gang got together last weekend for our second D&D weekend of the year. Yes, we still play 2nd Edition, it just works for us.

As is also traditional I arrived an hour or so before anyone else, even though (well probably because) I have further to travel.

I decided to wait for them all in the Village Pub, enjoying an alcohol free cider. I must say that alcohol free drinks are actually pretty good these days.

We were one man down this time around, and so I played two characters. My half-orc Fighter Cleric and Geoff's half elven Ranger.

We did pretty well, we're trying to prevent Vecna messing up the world (it seems that every world has at least one person who thinks they have a right to make everything work how they want it to).

Nobody died, but we didn't quite get our hands on what we were searching for.

We actually had a system for fighting our way through a whole load of powerful undead. we all followed the system, except for the gnome cleric who tried to turn them whenever he met them even though it always resulted in him running away in fear, and losing the contents of his bowels in the process.

On Sunday we went to the local pub for our lunch and as always the food was great.

Looking forward to the next weekend session in April.

Thanks as always to DM Dave for organising everything and running such a great dungeon.

4D Comics newsletter

In an attempt to let people know more about what I'm up to and where they can meet me and see if it's all real or just made up, I've created the first of a quarterly newsletter.

If you'd like to receive it then all you need to do is pop over to the 4D Comics website, scroll to the bottom of the HOME page and SUBSCRIBE.

Can't promise much other than it'll improve over the years, no doubt.

Starting to get excited about Thought Bubble

The last Con of the year, and every year, is Thought Bubble.

It's grown massively over the years and I think Colin and I were there, as AccentUK, at the first one.

Since then I've been with AccentUK and TimeBomb Comics and this year I'll be under my own little 4D Comics company.

I'll be in

 

Travelling Man Hall C10
Table name: 4D Comics

See you there.

Maidenhead Comic Con on Sunday

I enjoyed the Maidenhead Comic Con I did back in March and so have booked a table at this Sunday's event.

Hope to see you there.

Exeter's UKCGF Event

Last weekend I attended my first ever Convention in Exeter.

The three hour journey caused me to travel on the Friday, I do 2 hours there and back in a day but 3 hours (with the every likely chance of motorway delays) is too much.

Lisa, the show's organiser, had recommended a local hotel, so logistics were quite easy.

The venue was out of town a bit, as was the hotel, but everything worked really well.

I had already set up my table when Steve Tanner arrived.

Wandering around the hall I was pleased to see a really good balance of stalls. 

Our little independent comic corner, 3 or 4 comic back issue dealers, a good number of toy stalls, some Pokemon cards, t-shirts and games... pretty much everything was covered, and it was nice to see no Fudge stall.

There was also lots of areas where you could take free photos with various vehicles or manikins.

The character from Coraline has always freaked me out a bit and this was as close as I could bring myself to get.

Saturday was pretty busy, after the first hour. Lots of interesting charts with people, a good number of whom bought one of more books.

Sunday, it turned out, was pretty much the same. I actually sold almost the same number of books on both days, which is very unusual.

And it was very nice of them to chuck a protective cover over my car for the weekend. 😀😀😀

All in all a very well balanced, well organised Convention. A pleasure to be at and Steve and I will certainly be back next year, looking to attend both the Cons in March and October.