Threadless T-Shirt DesignSo I’ve submitted a t-shirt design to Threadless. If it gets enough votes it will go into production for sale online and in their stores. As such, if I can ask you all to take a few minutes to click on the image to link to the site, register and vote for my design, I [...]
Monkeys Behaving Badly ? MWM do Comic Racks!It had to happen eventually. After months, even years, of snubbing us in favour of unknowns like Paul Cornell and Tony Lee, Comic Racks have finally bitten the bullet and called down the thunder that is … the Monkeys with Machineguns Interview. Thrill … as we talk about ourselves. Gasp … as we find out about [...]
Check Out Those Racks!So me and Senior Lynch did an interview for those lovely ladies Iz and Stace at Comics Racks for their 50th special. As always both me and Chris were our retiring, shy selves and I did feel for the girls having to prod us to self promote and and talk about ourselves and work…Ahem! anyway, [...]
The Pen DragonsSo the Irish have Eclectic Micks and the Scottish have Scotch Corner and the Welsh have… Well, actually, until recently we had nothing. But no more! The talented Mike Collins suggested we set up a Welsh Blog, where a collection of Welsh comic artists and illustrators can post sketches, work and doodles and thus The Pen Dragons was [...]
Rick Lundeen, Harry Markos, and Chris Lynch talk about ?The Dark?Rick, Harry, and I have all been interviewed by the Hypergeek website about the forthcoming release of The Dark. We all answered our questions seperately, and it is interesting to see the areas in which we see the book differently as well as the areas in which we agree! A great chance to get a little “behind [...]
The Dark hits PreviewsDiamond Comic Distributions “Previews” catalogue will hit stores this week, containing the first solicitation by AAM/Markosia for “The Dark“. Our Diamond Order Code is JAN100699. The advert in previews features the OGN Cover by Rick Lundeen and the following about the book: (W) Chris Lynch (A) Rick Lundeen. Imagine a story that you can drink, a story that you [...]
First pencilled pages for HypergraphiaI received the first pencilled pages yesterday for my new Insomnia story “Hypergraphia” this week, drawn by the very talented Valia. I can’t say much about the story without spoiling it, but suffice to say that this once is a heady mix of Greek mythology and Faerie lore, and should have enough little “Easter Eggs” in [...]
Cover for ?The Dark? graphic novel revealedReaders of Rich Johnston’s Bleeding Cool comic news website have been given a sneak peek of the cover for the graphic novel release of “The Dark”. Click here to see “Thanks Given 21 @ Bleeding Cool”. Regular readers will know that I have been working on this project with Rick Lundeen for Markosia since May of 2009 [...]
MWM Live #1: Keys to the KingdomThe first MWM Live was for someone who we honestly didn’t press-gang long in advance of the event. Probably the one person to play our “name a place, name a thing, name a person” game to get their story started too! ?OK?, said the landlord, ?Here’s your uniform.? Carl looked sceptically at the bear skin hat [...]
SFX Magazine calls Chris Lynch ?oddly sweet?They know me so well! Murky Depths has picked up the SFX “Fanzine of the Month” gong for a 3rd time. It wasn’t until I met up with Terry from Murky Depths this weekend that I found out that “The Escape Artist” was given a special mention.
BICS 2009 ? A High Fidelity inspired report.Yep, BICS rocked. It rocked in a very special way. To steal a trick from Nick Horby here, in no particular order other than the order that my brain spewed them forth, are my favourite moments: Getting a trading card of “The Dark” from Sy Wyatt Almost making Amy Liff faint/vomit/both with an impromtu rendition of the classic [...]
MWM Live #1 : Deadly Spider MonkeysThis one was for Richard Griffiths, of Crafty Butchers fame, who just wanted “spidermonkeys”. We live to serve … Cliff reloaded his rifle as quickly as he could, letting the spent cartridges join those already scattered about his feet. The barrel of the gun was hot enough to scorch the wooden parapet of the outpost as he [...]
MWM Live #1: ?Bite?Inspired by Ryan Reed, who asked for a story featuring “?A man who has been bitten by a radioactive man, a VW Camper Van, and a pie? Rain rattled against the side of the camper van. Reed tried to ignore it, and concentrated on cooking. Cooking was a lot more complicated for Reed these days than [...]
You Have No New MessagesFriday Flash for Friday 3rd September. You Have No New Messages Ten stirred milk and sugar into her coffee as she awkwardly scrolled through the address book on her phone with her off hand. On the tiny screen, the time flipped to 14:53. Sarah was never late, and Ten really wanted to make her call before Sarah [...]
Paul was an only childHaven’t written a flash fiction in a while, thought it might be good to get my hand back in! Paul was an only child. He was also small for age, a little sickly, and blond. None of this, however, was important. What was important was that the was an only child, a lonely only child, but [...]
We?ve woken up, but we still need a cure to InsomniaThe news broke several days ago now that Insomnia Publications had released all of its creators from their contracts. Everyone received a short, polite email from publisher Crawford Coutts, and thus ended many weeks of speculation, worry, and countless threats of violence. The rumour mill continues to rumble, with accusations being levelled at a number [...]
Wake up Insomnia Publications ? It?s the Sleepless Phoenix.This is blog post asking for your support for a project that I’m involved in. I have written lots of blog posts like this. I’m normally shilling something, a new grahic novel, a new web site, or something else that I’ve created and now I’m hoping that you’ll adore. I normally want your money too, [...]
Cover Versions #1: Terry and the MonstersThis week, I saw an article on io9 about the glorious bemuzing covers of the horror and science fiction comics of yester-year. I was totally inspired by those covers and, in my normal fool hardy way, tweet out that I wanted to write a short story to go with every single one. A few people, in [...]
