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 [...]
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 [...]
Friday Flash: Chance 4321 Derek’s environment suit creaked and hissed as he clambered awkwardly down the moss covered slope. Vines coiled around his boots with each step, snagging his ankles, constantly threatening to trip him and send him toppling head first towards the valley floor. A fall was the thing that all of the explorers feared the most. The [...]
Birds of Geek vs. Dan and Chris and why ?The Dark is like Watchmen?Birds of Geek have released their Bristol Comic Expo Special episode, featuring back to back interviews with Dan Boultwood (yes, Dan Boultwood on his own without Tony Lee) and then, later on, me. Dan is on absolutely top form, whimsical and somewhat manic but very informative and open. I’m … me. Same old, same old. Apparently everyone [...]
Domain spelunking Auntie BeebA recent Freedom of Information request has unearthed a sizeable number of domain names owned by the BBC. Whilst some are territory related, there are a number of interesting ones relating to specific TV series. I’ve never been good an unearthing this kind of back matter, although I’m always intrigued when I do find it. My [...]
Two wise monkeys and me: It?s the Comic Book Outsiders Bristol Roundtable!Last year the Bristol Comic Expo played host to a round table discussion between the twin publishing mights of Monkeys with Machineguns and Orang Utan comics, the crew from Geek Syndicate, and some hardcore comic fans, all masterfully hosted and chaired by the erudite genius Scott Grandison. The result became Comic Book Outsiders Episode 46. This [...]
