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Status / 2024 / Week 07: Minor Breakages
February 21, 2024
Read this on my blog. Status / 2024 / Week 07: Minor Breakages I haven’t sent out a status update for the last couple of weeks, and I haven’t posted on my...
Status / 2024 / Week 05: Past Lives
February 5, 2024
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Status / 2024 / Week 04: (Re)Organisation
January 30, 2024
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Status / 2024 / Week 03: Chronic
January 23, 2024
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Status / 2023 / Week 02: Along We Rumble
January 16, 2024
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Status / 2024 / Week 01: Part 2 – Reviews for the Week
January 10, 2024
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Status / 2024 / Week 01: Part 1 - Best of 2023
January 8, 2024
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Status Update / 2023 / Week 52
December 31, 2023
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Thoughts on Seven Years of No Smoking
December 7, 2023
Read this on my blog. Thoughts on Seven Years of No Smoking (Content warning: This post describes the act of smoking several times, sometimes positively. If...
Status Update / 2023 / Week 48
December 5, 2023
Read this on my blog. Status Update / 2023 / Week 48 Writing this one from K’s house. It’s a lazy Sunday afternoon, and we just finished rewatching Scott...
Status Update / 2023 / Week 47
November 27, 2023
Read this on my blog. (Note: In case your mail client truncates this email, you can click on “Read this on my blog” to get the full post.) Status Update /...
Status Update / 2023 / Week 46
November 21, 2023
Read this on my blog. Status Update / 2023 / Week 46 (Note: This one’s longer than usual. If you’re reading this on email – which you are if you’re seeing...
Status Update / 2023 / Week 43
October 30, 2023
Read this on my blog. Status Update / 2023 / Week 43 A quiet Saturday at my end. I’m writing this from my parents’ home, where I’m tending to dad while my...
Status Update / 2023 / Week 42
October 22, 2023
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Strange Animals: Finalé? Reboot?
October 17, 2023
Hey, folks! It’s been a while since I’ve written you here in newsletter-land. And it’s my fault, of course. But I come to you with joyous news, or a good...
Strange Animals / 2023 / #5: Why You and Nobody Else?
September 3, 2023
I got a couple of messages recently enquiring if I’m alright, so it seemed like a good time to send out one more of these. Turns out that people who know me...
Strange Animals / 2023 / #4: Learning Is Juggling
June 6, 2023
Here we are again, one month from the middle of the year. Time. What a twat. /// May was the busiest month of this year for me. It usually is. A couple of...
Strange Animals / 2023 / #3: Down the Layers
April 3, 2023
Hey folks! Hope you’ve been well here in newsletter-land. Sometime last week marked three years since the first Covid lockdowns in India. Three bloody years,...
Strange Animals / 2023 / #2: A Cover and an Explanation
January 27, 2023
Let’s get right to this one, shall we? Unlike most instalments of this newsletter, I’ve got something to sell you. (Not something I avoid on purpose, mind...
Strange Animals / 2023 / #1: Wrap Up and Go Forth
January 5, 2023
Hello, my gentle people. I hope your new year is going well. Mine began on a nice note – surrounded by close friends and good vibes. For one reason or...
Strange Animals / 2022 / #8: We Made a Comic!
December 16, 2022
Most likely the final newsletter of the year. I averaged one per month-and-a-half, which isn’t horrible, given the rollercoaster this year has been for me....
Strange Animals / 2022 / #7: Ten on Twelve
October 11, 2022
I took a fairly long pause from writing this newsletter, as you might have noticed. With the last edition, I told you how I was taking a hiatus from my work....
Strange Animals / 2022 / #6: Halfway There
July 7, 2022
Half the year is done, and I think, like a lot of other people, this one kinda broke me. I know we’ve jokingly been saying “worst year yet” since at least...
Strange Animals / 2022 / #5: Between a Quarter and a Third
April 16, 2022
I’ve got myself into this terrible habit of writing half a newsletter, and then coming back to it much later, and what I was trying to say is either already...
Strange Animals / 2022 / #4: The Comics Creator’s Technical Handbook (Part 2)
March 2, 2022
April last year, I posted the first part of The Comics Creator’s Technical Handbook, as I called it. Crowd goes wild! It was easily the most shared article...
Strange Animals / 2022 / #3: Yeses and Nos
February 12, 2022
One of those lovely Twitter bots tells me that more than 10% of the year is already done. It’s been an interesting couple of months. I’ve actually managed to...
Strange Animals / 2022 / #2: Atomic
January 25, 2022
Funny story. After I got my first newsletter of the year out on the 8th, I – quite optimistically – made a private resolution to send one of these out every...
Strange Animals / 2022 / #1: Ways with Words
January 8, 2022
Hi! I hope your first week or so of 2022 has passed reasonably well. If it makes you feel better, everything happening in the world now has happened before...
Strange Animals / 2021 / #11: You Say Goodbye, I Say Hello
December 20, 2021
Let’s do a final one for the year, shall we? This is the 11th newsletter this year, so I managed almost one every month. I don’t think that’s too bad, though...
Strange Animals / 2021 / #10: Writing Writing
August 24, 2021
This newsletter thing is really blowing up, isn’t it? I don’t mean my specific newsletter – but newsletters in general. As a lot of people have been saying...
Strange Animals / 2021 / #9: A Mid-Season Update
July 1, 2021
It’s been a few months since I was last in your inbox, but I figured I’d give you an update since just about half the year is gone. The reception to the...
Strange Animals / 2021 / #8: The Comics Creator’s Technical Handbook (Part 1)
April 9, 2021
Right. Let’s make some changes around here, shall we? I’ve always wanted to write this as a weekly newsletter, because the idea of regularity pleases me, and...
Strange Animals / 2021 / #7: Shy Hi
March 15, 2021
Hello! It’s been a while, hasn’t it? And I was doing so well too – I’d managed more or less a post every week. But then I fell ill for a bit, after which my...
Strange Animals / 2021 / #6: Senses
February 15, 2021
A sneak peek of Home Sick Pilots #5, art by Caspar Wijngaard, lettering by me. /// I have, as I declared on Twitter, decided upon two laws of horror: Horror...
Strange Animals / 2021 / #5: Could Be Better
February 8, 2021
Art by John Pearson, from “Learn to Swim”, Razorblades #3, Feb 2021. /// It’s a quick one this time. I’ve got a main essay and an update, but nothing else...
Strange Animals / 2021 / #4: Slates and Plates
February 1, 2021
Art by Martin Simmonds, from The Department of Truth #5. /// On Cal Newport’s recommendation, I’ve ordered Beginners by Tom Vanderbilt, and in the meantime,...
Strange Animals / 2021 / #3: Out in the Open
January 23, 2021
Art by Anand RK, from the upcoming Radio Apocalypse. /// I’ve been thinking of something that went missing with the evolution of pulp comics into corporate...
Strange Animals / 2021 / #2: Not at Home
January 16, 2021
Art by Martin Simmonds, from The Department of Truth #4, published December 23rd, 2020. /// I’m writing this sitting at my neighbourhood café, and I’m...
Strange Animals / 2021 / #1: The Slow Rev
January 6, 2021
Art by Caspar Wijngaard, from Home Sick Pilots #2, out next week. /// So, I’m coming into the new year having just found out that I’m diabetic, and that this...
Strange Animals 30dec2020: Live in Hope
December 30, 2020
And here we are. Final edition of the year. I’ll be honest, I’ve been trying to write this one for a week now, and it ended up much longer than I’d intended....
Strange Animals 09dec2020: Wherever You Go, There You Are
December 9, 2020
Yes, yes. I’ve been missing for a few weeks now, and I owe you Part 2 of an essay. Sorry about that. The first week or two I missed because I was writing,...
Strange Animals 09nov2020: See Me Work
November 9, 2020
Nothing important happened last week, huh. How about that? Weirdly, though, while everyone was glued to their timeline, my October social media hiatus...
Strange Animals 02nov2020: It’s Only November Again
November 2, 2020
Keeping this one short. I got back on Twitter today, and it immediately wrecked my productivity. (Just kidding. It’s been one of those weeks, and I’m...
Strange Animals 26oct2020: Feeling Blue
October 26, 2020
Last week’s main essay seems to have gone down well – it’s the second-most read edition ever, and I got what we call in the trade a crapload of new signups....
Strange Animals 21oct2020: Is It Supposed to Look Like That?
October 21, 2020
As promised, here’s the main essay from this week’s newsletter, that apparently was too long to fit in one email with all the rest of the stuff. José...
Strange Animals 19oct2020: What’s Up, Date?
October 19, 2020
Another week, right on time. I know – I’m as surprised as you. And believe it or not, I got this one done on Friday – without Twitter, I was positively...
Strange Animals 12oct2020: What’s Moore Interesting
October 12, 2020
Actually landing this a week from the previous one, as promised. It’s amazing how much extra brain space you get when you’re not working all the time and can...
Strange Animals 05oct2020: The Return (After Being Away)
October 5, 2020
It’s been a while. Well, as we’ve all been saying for the past six months – it’s a pandeeeeeemic. *waves at everything* I have my excuse. At the end of last...
Strange Animals 27jun2020: Money Matters
June 27, 2020
This time, I mainly to talk about two things about money in comics that I’ve already posted on Twitter, but that I figured could use being put down a bit...
Strange Animals 13may2020: Side-Eyes
May 13, 2020
Depending on how you count time, it’s been anything from a few days to many weeks to several aeons since we last spoke. No matter. Time is an illusion, and...
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