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A collection of 32 posts

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

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

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

Going Rogue: A Star Wars Podcast

Some of my nerdier friends don’t like it when I refer to Rogue One: A Star Wars Story as “the only good Star War”. It’s mostly a joke, but the fact is – that’s the only Star Wars film I’ve been able to watch more than once,

Illuminations

Alan Moore is one of the three writers I feel have affected me and my writing the most, at least as an adult – the others being Nick Cave and David Milch. For all three, this is partly through their work, and partly through how they think and speak about their

Night Film

(Mild spoilers. But nothing that reveals the plot of the book, I think.) I have a bit of a yen for horror stories centred around films and film-making. I’m not sure what it is, but there is a certain luminosity to film, a magic that I feel is conducive