June 2013
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Another Way To Breathe: Meet The Team: Young Avengers →
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With two weeks to go until Young Avengers 1 is released, I thought I better actually do this or forever hold my peace. Well, that’s unlikely. I never hold my peace.
You know what I mean.
Basically, the idea being I have a wander through the cast of opening cast of Young Avengers. Not that…
This Was Not Written By a Machine →
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Somewhere there is a human who, as part of their job, once wrote out the following sentence: “A VARIED AND BALANCED DIET AND A HEALTHY LIFESTYLE ARE IMPORTANT”. Remembering this is not the work of a machine is important, at first my brain casually imagined it might have been[1]. The truth is, a thinking, breathing, living, person is behind that unhelpful statement on the back of a packet of Wrigley’s gum.
Best case scenario they were a freelance copywriter doing a bit of contract work and had a word limit they needed to be as close to as possible. In this world the words become “filler” material and were only reprinted on an industrial scale because of a quirky clerical requirement. It’s still an irritating waste of resources but it seems less awful than the possibility anyone invested real thought into the process…
Think Before You Ink: A Man’s Guide to Getting a Tattoo →
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Tattoos. Few art forms have such a long history, and even fewer evoke such a broad spectrum of opinions. Revered by some as a sign of honor or distinction, by others as an outward expression of creativity and personality, and by others still as the mark of criminals and lowlifes, the perceptions of tattooing are vast indeed. Perhaps you are considering getting a tattoo in the near future. After all, most men have kicked around the idea at one point or another. While a great deal of information involving tattoos is subjective (design styles, coloring, size and visibility), one thing is certain: the better informed you are, the better your experience and final result will be. Let’s take a deeper look into the ancient art…
How would the William Gibson of 1984 have described the Internet of 2013? →
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William Gibson coined the term “cyberspace” and he’s still predicting the myriad possibilities of our technological tomorrows, but how might Gibson have described our modern Internet at the time he was writing Neuromancer?
New York literary magazines – start spreading the news →
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Telling stories doesn’t require news media behemoths to do it for you.
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Dotter of Her Father’s Eyes (extract)
Mary and Bryan Talbot’s Dotter of Her Father’s Eyes has become the first graphic work to win the Costa biography prize. (Read more here)
James Moran on first issue of VS Comics.
Yes, the long awaited (by me and anyone else who was waiting) first issue of VS Comics, the anthology monthly comic from me and Mike Garley, is out now!
It features an ongoing tale I’ve been dying to tell for ages, called Day and Night, about a group of work colleagues who stumble across some proper, nasty, evil vampires, and have to go on the run. It’s gory, bloody, scary, and features amazing art by Patrick Walsh, colours by Nadine Ashworth, and letters by Mike Stock. Here’s a tiny taster:
