One of the jokes that the other Mindless Ones have about me is that while I often complain about not having written enough, I’m ridiculously productive (I write two or three books a year, on average).

Another week, another Filthy pre-view. Last Friday I spent a bit of time thinking out loud about the different approaches I might take with the cover for the print edition of this book. This week I ...

As was noted in the comments to the previous entry in this series, the analysis of sex provided in that section of The Function of The Filth wasn’t particularly attentive to the mechanics of The Filth ...

Fresh from Thought Bubble 2013, it’s the zine full of comics and essays about suicide, hubris and social housing that everyone – well, at least one person! – is talking about, Looking Glass Heights!

As Sir Tom Jones makes his last stand, let’s remind ourselves of what we’re all losing. Have fun seeing if you can listen long enough to hear Tom rapping!

If you’re near Harrogate this weekend and fancy talking into our faces or buying our comics, come visit us at Thought Bubble comics convention, tables B30-31, 2000AD! Big massive genius Gary Lactus ...

One of the strange blessings of the internet is its ability to serve as an external memory system. Thoughts that would once have been lost to time if they were even lucky enough to have made it out of ...

The cult film podcast with Mat Colegate (aka Lord Nuneaton Savage) & Dan White (aka The Beast Must Die). Kick back for this special Halloween 2025 episode of The Savage Beast filled with ...

“What we may be witnessing is not just the end of the Time War, or the passing of a particular period of post-war history, but the end of history as such: that is, the end point of mankind’s ...

You can tell I’m not the real me from the fact that I didn’t know this book existed until I tripped over Tegan O’Neil’s review in The Comics Journal. As a lifelong Eddie Campbell enthusiast and ...

Blink is, in many ways, the most Steven Moffat script imaginable. So when the series had come back, he’d been a natural choice to write for it, and his two previous stories, The Empty Child/The Doctor ...

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