You know, in some ways being kidnapped by monsters and held prisoner in a cave for nearly a year isn’t quite as bad as it might be. For one thing (and maybe I’m reaching here, but…) thanks to the monsters’ internet connection, I haven’t been deprived of music. Not at all long ago, a music [...]
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Shock! Horror! Competition!
OK, so no one really got going with my last effort for a caption competition, so I’ll scrap it and give you a couple of different options to work with. Here’s a bunch of authors and librarians at Pizza Express after the Oxon & Berks Regional Final of the Kid’s Lit Quiz. Can anyone think of [...]
Tis the Season to be Joyous!
My love of the muppets is well documented. (Even though some of them are monsters!) One of my favourite characters is Beaker, the hapless, disaster-prone subject of so many muppet experiments. Just had to share this clip of Beaker expressing his musical side with a special rendition of ‘Ode to Joy’. Gotta love the muppets!
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 [...]
It’s the little things…
…that make me happy. Little things like an apocalypse huddle, black smoke knotting around a crucifix and four minutes forty-eight seconds of fabulous giant robot destruction. Check out Ataque de Panico, this stunning short film I just watched three times here. Director Fede Alvarez is clearly a name to watch. SNEE HEE HEE!
Pigeon Impossible!
Stop what you’re doing right now! (Except you, yes you in the red shirt, you can carry on) – check out this supremely awesome animated short – PIGEON IMPOSSIBLE! PIGEON IMPOSSIBLE! On YouTube
The dreaded THIS AND THAT
I recently received this from my friend, the brilliant illustrator Barnaby Richards: Long-term TBM followers might remember Barnaby’s work from last February, when he sent us poor, captive authors a Message of Support. The monsters certainly do: his ‘support’ was for the monsters! If you feel the urge to create some monster art of your [...]
Big Bang Monster Trap
I was recently sent this from a fan. Despite being an author, illustrator, web-designer, to name but a few of her skills, she obviously has enough spare time to read my books (and why not?), as well as come up with bizarre ideas like the brilliant Big Bang Monster Trap. So clever is the concept [...]
Five of my Favourite Books Ever
Awesome independent booksellers The Big Green Bookshop are currently running a rather wonderful poll. What (they ask) are your five favourite books of all time? Anyone who answers has the chance to win a brilliant prize: twenty books of their choice from whatever ends up in the Big Green Top Fifty when the results are [...]
Oooh, Record Breakers…
Yesterday, I was sent a link to this video, which features proof copies of Invisible Fiends: Mr Mumbles in a world record breaking feat. Check it out and see if you’re as impressed as I am.
