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Saucer Country: The TV Option!

I’m delighted to announce that my comics series with artist Ryan Kelly Saucer Country, about a US Presidential candidate who’s abducted by aliens, has been optioned as a TV series! You can read the announcement with all the details here at Deadline. Much more on this over the coming months, of course. (Art by Ryan…

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Who Killed Nessie is Nominated for a British Book Award!

This is huge! This year the British Book Awards have added a Graphic Novel category, and Who Killed Nessie? by me and Rachael Smith has been nominated! The ceremony takes place on 11th May at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel (and if previous iterations are anything to go by, it’ll be livestreamed), and Rachael and I…

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Flash Gordon and Summoner Wars!

Flash Gordon Quarterly #7 My partner on Telefantasy Time Jump Lizbeth Myles and I have written a comic strip together! It’s going to be in Flash Gordon Quarterly #7, from Mad Cave, with the great Georges Jeanty on art! It’ll be out on April 29th (so please order from your local comic shop before the…

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Award Nominations! Bernice Documentary!

The Broken Frontier Awards! I’m delighted to say that I’ve recieved two nominations in this year’s Broken Frontier Awards: in Best Writer (for Who Killed Nessie?) and in Best Book on Comics (for The Mighty Avengers vs. the 1970s). It’s a great pleasure to be part of such distinguished shortlists. (And my Nessie partner, Rachael…

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Oxford Event Cancelled

Sorry! Just a quick message to say sorry, but my Marvel book panel at Blackwell’s in Oxford on the 10th has been rescheduled by the bookshop to early next year. (I thought it was a bit odd that we were doing this during the Christmas rush.) Please don’t show up on that date! My apologies…

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Marvel Panel in Oxford! Stolen Face!

On Wednesday, December 10th at 5.30pm I’ll be taking part in a panel discussion at Blackwell’s in Oxford, chiefly about my Marvel Age of Comics book on the Avengers. I’ll be joined by Jason Atomic and Owen Michael Johnson and we’ll be interviewed by Sarah Miles. Tickets cost £6 and are available here, where you…

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