Fun Stuff You May Wish To Hear About
The last month or so has been a blur of travel, live events, and fighting off an endless cycle of colds due to, well, all the travel and doing live events. But what are you going to do? Viruses and exhaustion are the price you pay for doing fun things. Thanks to everyone who’s come out to see me in Bath, in London, in Whitstable, in wherever else I’ve been. As I say, bit of a blur. Anyway, what with all that and ‘attempting to stay on top of weekly comics deadlines’ there hasn’t been a lot of time for substacking, but there are a few fun things coming up that I wanted to draw your attention to!
My friend the writer, academic and futurist Matt Finch did a huge long interview with me about all things Mega Robo Bros to commemorate the end of the series. It is BIG, and we really get into, well, everything really. It was such a fun chat and it was great and honestly, I think really quite psychologically helpful, as I came to the end of this massive all-consuming project, to have a kind of exit interview / debrief about the whole thing with someone as thoughtful, perceptive and articulate as Matt. I’m going to try and put together an illustrated version here, with some bits of never-before-seen concept art that we touch on in the chat, but in the meantime if you’d like to have a read, check it out on Matt’s blog! Please be warned though, it contains ALL THE SPOILERS.
This weekend I will be at the Oxford Literary Festival, taking part in the Great Phoenix Comic Book Draw-Off with delightful and brilliant fellow Phoenix creators Abby Bulmer and Gary Northfield. I have concocted some truly ridiculous plans for this one, I think it should be a very fun time, so if you have any Phoenix fans in the area, do come along! Details and tickets HERE.
And while I’m here, a few more events to share with you…
3-4 May I will be a guest at Portsmouth Comic Con! Honestly I’m not entirely sure what I’ll be doing all weekend, but ‘chatting and doing sketches for people’ will presumably be involved in some shape or form. Details and tickets HERE.
10 May I will be at Dulwich Festival! Details and tickets HERE.
17 May I will be back at Fourbears Book Fest in Reading! Details and tickets HERE.
24-25 May I will be back at International Literature Festival Dublin, doing a Donut Squad event and a Mega Robo Bros workshop! Details and tickets HERE.
28 May I will be at the Hay Festival - again, doing one Donut Squad event and one Mega Robo Bros one. Details and tickets HERE.
…okay, that’s probably enough to be getting on with! Some more INCREDIBLY exciting stuff to announce coming up later this year but, good lord, I can’t sit around here sujbstacking all day, I need to go stock up on lemsips and have a lie down. Onwards!
Oh hey, while I’m here: it is only just over a month now until Donut Squad Book One is loosed upon an unsuspecting world, and the good news for YOU the consumer is that a bunch of places are offering it at a staggering 50% off. Check out my linktree for all the links!
Okay thanks bye xx