In this month of piss, I am happy to see that even the BBC is helping us out. This thought provoking piece on the same of a number of paintings done by chimps has the wonderful sub-heading Piss Paintings.
Thought provoking, because art is seen to be […]

Whenever Vic Fluro and I get together and have a few beers, talk always turns to comics characters and what – given the chance – he or I would do with them, were we comics writers. I say “were we” but he actually is one, or at[…]

Self-publicising in its most blatant form, but I hope some people might be interested. I’ve just released what there is so far of my new website about Japanese arts. It arose from conversation with several people, mostly Freaky Trigger writers,[…]

Last night I sat down to read THE TOMB OF DRACULA, a collection of GOTH COMIC BOOKS nicely given to me as a birthday present by a collaborator of this (man2man) Parrish. Goodness grief! Whilst I admit that I have general anti-comics stance, I was wil[…]

Mystery of urine stained books
This is a job for Hercule Pissoir. Or Sam Sprayed.
We will return to normal service writing about proper book related issues as soon as Ananova stop having quirkies about pissing everywhere.[…]

Ew….
(also huge truckloads of unintented(?) symbolism attached to this)
(which makes it more effective as art probably)
(if not as soap)[…]

I was going to write and rail a touch against Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, which styles itself as literary science fiction; and all the beginners sci-fi errors it makes. That was until I stumbled across the trailer for the new Michael Bay […]

Many many years ago I was given a book in my Christmas stocking called The Exam Secret. It argued, cogently, wittily and somewhat dangerously, that the secret of exams was to entertain the examiner. This nugget of insight is something I’ve alwa[…]

is peter halley a comics artist ?
no
a) he doesnt work on paper (ie he is not ephemeral)
b) he doesnt use words (is the usual conflation and split b/w language and image requiste?)
c) his work can appear apart (ie can it be modular and still be seque[…]

There’s little more satisfying than seeing a story which you know is going to involve the words and watching in delight as they appear. Paragraph 1…2…come on….3…4….almost there….5….6…yes! GET IN y[…]