I really raised awareness of Bulmer’s Ventricle with this comic, a heart condition characterised by thickening of Braithwaite’s Cotillion and the slow degradation of the pulmonary wattle.
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My Gumroad page (where you can download DRM-free PDFs of my various books) has been updated. I’ve added Solver Volume 1 (which includes the Circus Windows mini), Savage Sword of Susan, Giant Days: Snooker Could Be Better, and the Murder She Writes 15th Anniversary Edition. Plus, there are three new multipacks – one with everything in it, one with just the Scary Go Round collections, and one with everything new, for anyone who bought the old 2024 ‘EVERYTHING’ multipack. I think I have covered all possibilities!
(If you bought Murder She Writes in the past, the new edition has been added to your Gumroad Library).
I have a few in-person events (in the UK) coming up:
Saturday June 27th – MACC-POW, Macclesfield
Saturday July 11th – Big City Reads: Meet The Authors, Nottingham Central Library 4-6pm.
Wednesday August 5th – Big City Reads (John Allison in conversation with Laura Snapes) 5.30-6.30pm
Saturday October 10th – SCARF, Sheffield (free entry!)
Sat/Sun November 14-15th Thought Bubble Festival, Harrogate
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The two Nottingham events have to be booked in advance, but they are both free.
Comments on comics will be closed Monday-Thursday until the autumn. They’ll open every Friday, for the weekend. This is not down to anyone’s bad behaviour, just a need for me to reduce the noise around the work I make. For the same reason, I won’t be monitoring social media replies and DMs any more. You can still contact me via email and the Patreon – I try to reply to every message I get.
In better news, my sabbatical is over and I am writing again and preparing to start drawing. I feel a lot better, and hopefully I will stay that way! You’ll get a short story (a vignette?) after the Murder She Writes rerun, then something longer.
A few people have been experiencing 431 errors when trying to view the site. I think this was a problem with cookies that one of this site’s plugins (Comments Like Dislike) was creating. I’ve deleted the plugin and added code to clear its cookies automatically. But that’s why you can’t “thumbs up” comments any more. Comment below if you’re still having issues and I’ll look for what else might be causing the problem.
In the last couple of days something very strange happened, another webcomic linked to me. This used to be common 20 years ago, but now is so unusual that I looked at my stats and couldn’t work out why they were up for several days in a row. So thank you to the creators of Cassiopeia Quinn. I have been thinking for weeks of instituting a new links list to (free) webcomics I like, but wondered if it wouldn’t just be archaic and weird. Once again, our old friend the cosmos, indeed Cassiopeia itself, has sent me a sign. So I will proceed.
