I wrote this story when all the windows in my house were being replaced. It was -3°C outside and I had to keep warm, so I did it by writing and drawing 12 pages in 2 days. It’s difficult to describe how I felt after I finished.
The pages are being released in twos because in the absence of quality, it’s best to pump up the quantity. But this is quite a good project, it’s got a certain power, as you will discover. See you on Friday for part 2.
If you want to sign up to my Patreon – and why wouldn’t you, crammed as it is with hot content, please make sure you sign up via the website, as new signups via the Apple app store Patreon app are now subject to a 1/3 surcharge, payable to Apple.
Nothing changes for existing subscribers. But if you perhaps take a break, then re-sign up, do it on the website, not the app.
THAT IS ALL.
THAT IS NOT ALL:
Thank you to everyone who supports me via the Patreon. Were it not for this support during a few pretty awful years, the webcomics would not have continued.
Just a reminder that if you’re looking for the archives that the malware attack earlier this year destroyed, I put Steeple, Bobbins (2013), Destroy History, Giant Days (self-published 1-4) and Kit + The Wolf all back up – there are links to them in the menu bar or on one handy page on scarygoround.com.
A few UK comic shops are now carrying SOLVER. Roll up in person or order online! All copies at the shops below are signed. The links will take you to direct to the book.
OK Comics, Leeds
Gosh Comics, London
Page 45, Nottingham
Readers outside the UK, hang tight: it should be available from my Topatoco shop in the autumn.
I’ve made a Solver book collection, primarily so I have something to sell at a couple of conventions coming up. I have only printed a short run. Having teased it on social media, I’ve been peppered with “where can I get it” questions. The answer is, it will be available from a few stockists in the UK and I will send some to Topatoco, but I think that will be at the start of September. I’ll make an announcement here, and via the mailing list and Patreon, when it’s more widely available. There’s no pre-order; if I run out, I am sure I will make more.
Contains everything published between 2022 and 2024 (ie all the Glenn Durgan stories, but not Circus Windows).
UPCOMING EVENTS
Stapled, Leeds UK, Sunday August 25th [TICKETS]
Thought Bubble, Harrogate UK, November 16-17 [TICKETS]
Some people have reported having issues with the Bad Machinery RSS feed. There are actually two feeds – one that this site auto-generates (badmachinery.com/feed/), and one that I have updated manually with whatever comic I am working on since about 2010 (badmachinery.com/index.xml), which most people are subscribed to. About a week ago (June 28) the manual feed it stopped updating in Feedly and some other RSS readers, and I’m not 100% sure why. It still works in others.
I am looking into it but if you have any idea what might have happened, let me know in the comments below. These things often rectify themselves – if you’re subscribed to the manual feed and this post is at the top of your feed, that’s what happened.
