Bad Machinery

The collected edition of KILL OR BE QUILT is out today, in comic shops and bookshops. Just ask for it! If you didn’t pick it up in single issues or prefer a bookshelf edition, now is your time to shine. Or perhaps you think it will make a good Christmas gift? I can imagine many scenarios in which this book delights its recipient on the holy morn. I think this is one of the best books Max Sarin and I have done together, and I am not sure when we will get to work together again, so I hope you’ll pick it up.

Related: I will be signing copies of this and anything else you stick under my nose at Gosh Comics in London this Saturday (28th Nov) from 2-3. Here’s the link to the event.

ITEM! SAVAGE SWORD OF SUSAN (TOPATOCO) UPDATE: The first shipment to the US was lost. The second has now been “delayed” for a week (this might be due to Thanksgiving/Black Friday parcel traffic etc). Fully half the run has now been fired into the Atlantic void, I will post here again when and if it is ever available.

I’ll be at Thought Bubble Festival in Harrogate, UK on November 15th and 16th, sharing table A14 in the 2000AD Hall with my friend, the incredible artist Warwick Johnson Cadwell. I’ll have loads of different books – Solver, Savage Sword of Susan, Destroy History: NEMS, plus a show exclusive print (that has elicited great excitement from those who have seen it already) and anything else I can round up between then and now. Every year I see faces old and new, and I’m always glad to see you. I’ll be doing a panel (Silence! To Astonish 10th anniversary) on the Saturday at 1.45pm too.

Then, at the end of the month, I’ll be a featured artist at the Gosh Comics drink and draw on November 28th, and I’ll be signing GREAT BRITISH BUMP-OFF: KILL OR BE QUILT in-store the following afternoon at 2-3pm. If you’re in London or nearby, perhaps I will see you then.

After that: no more appearances in 2025. I will be hiding until the new year. But after several years of very limited appearances at events, I hope to do a few more (in the UK at least) in 2026. They’re hard work but I like meeting readers and other creators. My aim is to learn about the good events before they happen, rather than afterwards (as has generally been the case).

The final issue is out on July 23rd! There’s a five-page preview (no sub necessary) on my Patreon.