New comics return on August 23rd. But the Giant Days self-published archive is back up here: scarygoround.com/giantdays. I’m sure that a lot of you will have read these pages in the past, but perhaps they will be new to one[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
THE GIANT DAYS SELF-PUBLISHED ARCHIVE IS BACK UP! FROM GIANT DAYS #1 The first Giant Days was conceived largely “on the hoof”, with a vague idea of what would occur but pretty much written a week at a time, then[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
THE GIANT DAYS SELF-PUBLISHED ARCHIVE IS BACK UP! FROM GIANT DAYS #2 One of the most controversial, and defining, scenes of Giant Days #2 was when Esther cheats on Eustace, or “The Boy”. At least, I think it was controversial.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
THE GIANT DAYS SELF-PUBLISHED ARCHIVE IS BACK UP! FROM GIANT DAYS #3 The gap between Giant Days #1 and #2 was 18 months. The gap between #2 and #3 was one week. I knew I was onto something, and ideas[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
THE GIANT DAYS SELF-PUBLISHED ARCHIVE IS BACK UP! FROM GIANT DAYS: SNOOKER COULD BE BETTER The Giant Days x Batman special has been discussed here before. I wrote a pitch for it when Boom were publishing Lumberjanes/Gotham Academy, my editor[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
New comics will be back on August 23rd. But this week, the Bobbins (2013-2022) archive is back up at scarygoround.com/bobbins. This was the series that revisited the setting and characters of my earliest stripsĀ for all-new stories. Most of it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
THE BOBBINS (2013-2022) ARCHIVE IS BACK UP! Bobbins coming back started, like many of my projects, as a joke with a friend. He had been an early reader (while he was still at at school) and is a Beach Boys[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
THE BOBBINS (2013-2022) ARCHIVE IS BACK UP! One of the most mysterious things about Bobbins was, what was actually in the “city listings magazine” they produced. No one ever seemed to do any writing, except when Holly went to an[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
THE BOBBINS (2013-2022) ARCHIVE IS BACK UP! I mentioned in a prior commentary that I threw ideas into the original Bobbins then swiftly moved on. The biggest and most difficult to get around was Shelley’s boyfriend Bruno. He was depicted[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
THE BOBBINS (2013-2022) ARCHIVE IS BACK UP! The revival of Bobbins amounts to 250 comics over nine years. This one from later in the run illustrates the strength it had gained by this point, but also the seeds of its[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
