Weeknotes / 2023 / Week 46

Hello, my beloved Internet! I intended only to skip one week while I was on my vacation, but I forgot that my vacation encompassed two weekends, and I had no intention to do anything resembling work while on holiday. I hope everyone’s been well. I had a good time

Weeknotes / 2023 / Week 43

A quiet Saturday at my end. I’m writing this from my parents’ home, where I’m tending to dad while my mother has a day out. The cat is sitting on my lap as I write this – he hasn’t had this much alone time with me in a

Why You and Nobody Else?

Originally posted in my newsletter dated 3rd September 2023. There is a tendency in commercial art to “create to brief”. That is, as a creative, you fulfil the brief you’ve been given, but don’t add much to it. If you work like this, your work is likely to

Weeknotes / 2023 / Week 42

It’s a nice Saturday evening, K and I just got back from a long walk (like the proper old people we are), so I think it’s a good time to write this week’s update. Here’s this week’s earworm, from the Killers of the Flower Moon

Liltober Week 1

As I mentioned in a previous Status Update, I’m trying to get back to draw as my back issues recede. Plus, my friend Nitin helped me figure out a drawing setup that doesn’t require me to hunch over my iPad, so I’ve been drawing again. I don’

Status Update / 2023 / Week 41

Hello, the Internet! I’m writing this on a lazy Sunday afternoon. After a friend’s quiet birthday celebration yesterday, I was reminded that I am now old and, in fact, loving it. There’s been a flu going around the city, probably down to the erratic weather, and I

We’re All Going to the World’s Fair

I mentioned We’re All Going to the World’s Fair in my last post about The Deviant, but I wanted to expand on that. (SPOILERS AHEAD.) World’s Fair is a marvellous low-budget horror film about a teenager who takes part in an online augmented reality game which is

Status Update / 2023 / Week 40

Hello, the Internet! It’s Saturday afternoon, and K has forbidden me from humming “Voodoo Mama” from the Babylon soundtrack because it’ll inevitably get stuck in her head and she’ll keep wracking her brain about where it’s from. So instead, you can listen to it: A week

The Deviant

Comics pal and frequent collaborator James Tynion IV recently sent over an advance PDF of his upcoming horror comic The Deviant, created with artist Joshua Hixson and letterer Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou. Since, I’ve come to realise, this blog can be whatever I want it to be, I thought I’d

Status Update / 2023 / Week 39

I’m writing this from my other favourite café – the one where I’m friends with the owners. One of them had just come back from a coffee conference, and gave me a packet of coffee to take home, and made me a delicious pourover of an as-yet-unlaunched coffee. Pays