As I mentioned last week, the newest anthology from Accent UK is now out and features me. Well, this weekend I finally got to see a copy of the Robots itself, and I have to admit that it’s an impressive package. It has a real heft to it and lovely production values – the printing is especially fine this time around. Now, as I’m in it I’m not going to even try to review the book, but there are a few nice pieces in there that really make the £8.50 seem like money well spent, and that’s not to even mention me. There’s a list of the contributors on the Accent UK website and that should be enough to tell you that you want a copy.
Working Parts, my story, is obviously your main incentive for wanting the book. Why else would you be here? I could talk about that story a little, and I probably will at some point, but as it’s even more oblique than my usual work I’d quite like to see how people react to it. So, if you’ve read it, I’d love to hear your thoughts.
I’ve sent you there in the past, and I’ll no doubt be sending you there again. You can get Robots over at the Accent UK site, and I can’t think of a good reason for you not to go there right now.
Something that has always struck me as funny is the way in which artists often, when you see them, tend to look quite a lot like their art does. Funny that. Anyway, the reason I mention it is the below screencap from Mr Oliver Smith’s London Underground Comics video of his trip to
Those of you lucky enough to have attended the Bristol Expo over the weekend may have been doubly blessed to pick up the paper pamphlet promoting the new comic from my partners in crime, Messrs Goodbrey and Azzopardi. If you picked up the comic, Necessary Monsters, it may well have been the highlight of your weekend. I myself had dinner with the above gentlemen, and that was my highlight. Both boys are, after all, my bitches in their own ways.
If you missed it – you can still get in on the ground floor. Necessary Monsters is soon to launch as a webcomic. Point your browsers like rifles in this direction.
I was pleased to discover, on my little sortie to
Anyway, you will all be wanting to get a copy for your children’s children, because the version on the web will be unavailable after the fourth world war destroys electronics as we know it and we are lorded over by super-mutated fieldmice. Um, so anyway, you’ll be wanting a copy for yourselves too, no doubt. Rush on over the Violent site now to order a copy, and you can still read the comic itself there too.
At least for the moment!
(And for all those of you who loved Into Endless Arms, there’ll be some interesting news coming soon…)
The Rule of Death By Daniel Merlin Goodbrey & Douglas Noble
A new character enters the story here, and it takes me about three pages to work out how to draw him properly. Until then, enjoy his broken face!
