I built a monastery the other day. Perched on the mile-wide weld ridge between two asteroids, St. Padddd’s is home to an Ursan (Think Fozzy Bear meets Chewbacca) monastic order who’ve dedicated their lives to helping others. St. Padddd’s is part of the Temenos Ark, an emergency evacuation vessel the size of a small moon …
Every new year I play this game with myself where I try for a clean page. Finish every book, game, show, podcast, movie and audio drama and reset the clock. It’s a fun game, even if I haven’t won yet. I keep track of it all on Pinterest, which is like if the Borg did …
It’s a Christmas Miracle! John Reppion and MD Penman‘s adaptation of the ancient story is not just a worthy version it’s a fascinating introduction to the story itself. At Christmas, a vast Green Knight rides into King Arthur’s court and suggests a game; any knight can strike him once, but must be ready to receive …
The dog is FINE, don’t worry. I mean, they’re made entirely of yearning and contemplating some canine scuba action but they are fine. Tragedy by Becky Howard is another one of those zines that embodies everything good about the art form. It’s an A6 foldout, a single page of A4 that’s crammed full of humour …
Kristyna Baczynski is one of the dynamos of the UK comics scene. Her work is always precise, highly detailed and thrumming with a unique palate, energy and focus. Her first full-length graphic novel, Retrograde Orbit, is a particular favourite. Now, A Measure of Space is too. Vesna’s planet is about to be hit by a …
Rob Turpin makes beautiful spaceships. Gloriously lumpy, and weirdly graceful, the Weird Field (WF) ships are almost abstract collections of parts, the idea of a spacecraft filtered through the practicality of not having to worry about atmosphere. Weird Field World, Turpin’s first book, collects them all and provides some welcome, and expertly designed, context. In …
Georgie Mac‘s zine slides sideways through your expectations into comedy, surrealism and pop culture. The moon is hatching. A new kind of astronaut, propelled out into the universe to seek answers discover the truth and be caught, as we all are, in the awe-inspiring gravitational pull of Steve Harrington’s hair. Max’s collage work here is …
Look at these four people. All of them thinking they’re about to have fun and watch a meteor shower. One of those things is true. The meteor shower will come, the sky will light up but fun? No. Tonight, these four intrepid individuals will be having…MINUS FUN. Aside from Lou, the chap in glasses on …
NOTE: Bit of a surprise today. The day’s got away from me and the most recent thing I watched to catch up on it was the excellent new edition of Event Horizon. Turns out, I already wrote a long-form piece about the movie and so, with a slight tweak, but on brand, here it is. …
I’m spending a lot of time at the moment trying to make the invisible visible in my artistic process. That means spotting assumptions and asking why they’re assumptions. It means a lot of planning and it also means constantly trying to look at the bigger questions about a piece of work and why I’m doing …
the november blogs-There is something in the in-between moments of making art