Last week I mentioned I’ll be spending a little time this weekend with Chris Mould (yes, that’s him in the picture – self portrait I may add). He’s the rather clever author and illustrator of, among his many impressive titles, the quite wonderful Something Wickedly Weird series. I’ll be joining him at Dean Clough in Halifax in [...]
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Monstered!
The Crystal Palace Children’s Book Festival on Saturday was awesome. Here’s a pic of Alexander Gordon Smith at our Chainsaw Gang Best of Horror Panel, introducing a personal friend of his – the disembodied head of one of the Wheezers from his fantastic Furnace books (click here for my review of those on TBM). Rather [...]
A Postcard from Cosmo
I found this on my drawing board this morning. previous postcard / next postcard
Drawing Blood!
As part of the build up (and beyond come to think of it), to The Halifax Ghost Story Festival (more on this soon), I am very lucky to find myself hung on the walls in Dean Clough Galleries in Halifax. Now, of course, I don’t actually mean that I am hung. No! It’s my drawings [...]
A Postcard from Cosmo
I found this on my drawing board this morning. previous postcard / next postcard
Little Devil Inside…
This is my piece for The Laundry exhibition in Dublin last week. It was part of OFFSET 2010 which is an annual 3 day creative conference. It was amazing weekend featuring legends George Lois, Gary Baseman, David Carson, Studio AKA, Scott Dadich, Emily Forgot and Nate Williams amongst others. Offset is one of the best [...]
A Postcard from Cosmo
I found this on my drawing board this morning. previous postcard / next postcard If you are confused and would like to be better informed (although still probably confused) you can view the postcards from the beginning by clicking here. I was recently asked some questions about the postcards by It Belongs to Turtle which [...]
Here Be Monsters
I love books that are just full of nonsense and this here book is one of them. Here Be Monsters by Alan Snow is full ridiculous characters like Boxtrolls, Cabbageheads, The Man With the Iron Socks, Trotting Badgers, to name a few. The story takes place above and beneath the streets of Ratbridge where a [...]
A Postcard from Cosmo
I found this on my drawing board this morning. previous postcard / next postcard
