I was let out of my cell yesterday to join some other writing colleagues at Broxbourne School in an effort to beat the best young literary brains in the London region at a Literary Quiz. Our team consisted of M.G. Harris, Echo Freer, Matt Whyman and me. We were pretty confident until we saw the [...]
Archive > November 2009
What else do you do?
I found myself happily drawing these silly creatures the other week, in between signing books with Mark Robson at Waterstones in Oxford. It struck me, not for the first time, how curious it is that people are surprised that I should be doing this for a living. There I was bent over a corner of [...]
Dinner Time
Oh, the joys of a new Mr Gum book… (yes, I know it’s been out for a few weeks, but I’ve only just got my mitts on a copy!) In What’s For Dinner, Mr Gum?, the 6th installment of sheer joyful madness from Andy Stanton (accompanied by the usual incredible illustrations from David Tazzyman that [...]
Be Appy!
Eeee(book) by gum! It’s grand news… The first four Scream Street titles – Fang of the Vampire, Blood of the Witch, Heart of the Mummy and Flesh of the Zombie – are now available to buy as iPhone apps from the iTunes App Store. Each book costs just £3.99, and is instantly available to read [...]
JETHRO’S ACE OF HEARTS – Slice 8 of 13
JETHRO’S ACE OF HEARTS a thirteen-part story, EXCLUSIVE to Trapped By Monsters story (c) Sam Enthoven / illustrations (c) David Melling, 2009. All rights reserved. (Click here for previous slices: 1st ; 2nd ; 3rd ; 4th ; 5th ; 6th ; 7th) -Eighth Slice- Jethro looked blank. Mr Theophilus’ smile did not waver. ‘Those [...]
Their souls make his tummy happy
To be filed firmly in the ‘so utterly, horribly wrong it’s right’ category, allow me to introduce you (via Boing Boing) to The Adventures of Lil’ Cthulhu — a bloodcurdlingly chirpy animated short film that narrates H P Lovecraft‘s classic and terrifying Cthulhu Mythos in a way that now – at last! – the whole [...]
DINO COOLNESS
It’s been a busy few months down the caves – and I’m bursting to tell you all about the things that have caused me to leap up and down with glee… but they’ll have to wait. In the meantime, I received a few cool concept designs for a new comic I’m working on called DINO-CORPS [...]
JETHRO’S ACE OF HEARTS – Slice 7 of 13
JETHRO’S ACE OF HEARTS a thirteen-part story, EXCLUSIVE to Trapped By Monsters story (c) Sam Enthoven / illustrations (c) David Melling, 2009. All rights reserved. (Click here for previous slices: 1st ; 2nd ; 3rd ; 4th ; 5th ; 6th) -Seventh Slice- ‘Hearts?‘ said Jethro, and turned his head to face his host at [...]
Barry discusses Barry
I decided to shoot a new video blog yesterday, so stuck the camera on the tripod, removed the lens cap, and flicked the button marked ‘Record’. It was at this point that I realised I had absolutely no idea what I was going to talk about. I spent three or four nanoseconds debating whether I [...]
Go, Joshua! Go!
If given a taste of the first in her new Joshua Files series, anyone could be forgiven for thinking M.G. Harris was a male writer. I wonder if it was a tactical ploy to only give her initials in an effort to get those young boys on board who normally read books by Anthony Horowitz, [...]
