Pocket Jeunesse have done marvellous covers for my Dragon Orb books. This is the final one, released on 3 June. I glanced at the amazon.fr rating for it the other day and was delighted to see it was inside the top 500 (477 to be precise, not that I’m obsessive or anything!) which is a [...]
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THE UNSPEAKABLE HORROR – Episode 5 by Mark Robson
THE UNSPEAKABLE HORROR! A Trapped by Monsters story With art by David Melling Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 As soon as I heard the scuffling outside the door, I knew this was my chance. Monsters don’t scuffle. They thump, stomp and squelch, but they never scuffle. The siren hadn’t let up in [...]
Goblins on the move
I find my mind once again turning towards all things goblin as I start thinking about Book 6 in the Goblin series. Not sure where it will take me or what I’ll find where I get there but, by way of inspiration, I flicked back through my goblin sketchbook and found this cheery idiot among [...]
How Precious
Via the seemingly inexhaustible fountain of wonders that is Boing Boing here’s a link to some beautifully illustrated pages from a Russian edition of JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit. I particularly love this version of Gollum… …But watch out for the spiders of Mirkwood, which/who are pretty damn stunning, too. Sam
The many faces of Raggy Maggie
Those of you who read my first Invisible Fiends book, Mr Mumbles, will possibly have read the sneak preview from book 2 which is tucked away at the back. Book 2 is called Raggy Maggie, and sees Kyle pitted against… um… a five-year-old girl with a dolly. But the girl, Caddie, is no ordinary five-year-old, [...]
Weird Dream
I woke up a few days ago with this image floating around some of the more surreal corners of my mind. Try as I might the dream that had preceded this visual peek eluded me. Yes, there were sheep, plenty of them. And yes the weather was um, challenging. But as I lay there trying [...]
Ronald Searle
Found myself passing Little Russell Street in London the other day (2 minutes from The British Museum), and popped in to see this wonderful exhibition by surely the king of the satirical pen Ronald Searle. He has just had his 90th birthday. It is a little sad that, apart a small handful of articles and [...]
Trees in the breeze
There’s a row of trees outside my studio that look like this. Except, with all those knobbly barks the faces seem to change every time I go past. Either that or they swap places when I’m not looking. My guess is they’re getting a bit fidgety, won’t be long before the leaves cover their more [...]
