Tiny Lives
Do you remember autobiographical comics? What – they’re still going? I wouldn’t know. I stopped reading them, oh, four, five years ago. Weirdly enough it was around the time I started reading weblogs – now isn&#8217[…]

SOME MOTHERS DO HAVE ‘EM

And Sometimes they get – BIG!
It is Michael Crawford in a fat suit for his role in the new Andrew Lloyd-Webber musical The Woman In White. I am hoping that the attendant hooh-hah about this Wilkie Collins adaptat[…]

“my five-year-old cd do better!”
(ans = blimey i can’t get MY five year old to throw ANYTHING away!!) haha yes well anyway i just had an excellent argt w.my nice co-worker abt how rubbish-as-art is just rubbish not art: so far soho[…]

Fred Tomaselli – Monsters Of Paradise: Magnus said before we entered that he had never seen a bad exhibition at the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh. I had: me, Tom and Dr T had seen this Jeff Koons exhibition there and had been particularly un[…]

Londoners! You (if you are anything like me) will hear the news story on the local news on Friday and curse your luck because your weekend will be arranged. It’s Open House weekend again and careful planning is required.
There seem to be more […]

DR and Quinch Have Fun On Earth – the first DR & Quinch story by Alan Moore and Alan Davies in full. Again from the BBC cult comics site. Sorry about that, but I think it needed pointing out all the same.[…]

“More or less, a prophet” — it’s not wrong or even weird of me to say that even though Oscar Wilde is one of my favorite writers I’m actually far more fascinated by him than his work. If I could master the paradox approa[…]

Comics On The Radio. Unfortunately this new spree of BBC led comics on the radio (?) are not by pioneer Dirk Maggs, who did some odd comic adaptations on Radio One in the mid-nineties (in surround sound natch). Maggs’s version of The Death Of […]

Identity Crisis Remixed: DC Comics’ rubbish ‘summer event’ given an unsubtle, but deserved slap. (via I Want A Blog, and speaking of unsubtle, is that the welcome return of Styleman I spy…?)[…]

I dream of other worlds — Michael Benson is my kind of freak, and Beyond — official book website here — is my kind of book. Ever since I was small I was fascinated by things astronomical — one of my most valued books to this […]