"The Hotel Pennsylvania hosted the world’s first Star Trek convention in 1972, although that was later retconned to 1997 by JJ Abrams." Once upon a time I took my dear oul Irish ma to New York City...
Meet Mike S. Blueberry, Jean 'Moebius' Giraud's criminally underrated Western comics hero
An overview of Alejandro Jodorowsky's magnificently insane 'Jodoverse' comics
Somewhere between the dawn of this century and the tail-end of the last I went to see Tom Waits in Paris. It's still the best gig I've ever been to.
Forget Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon - Christopher Lee was the real Centre of the Hollywood Universe, a Prince of Darkness who almost became a Prince of Comedy
A list of English-language translations of classic Métal Hurlant comic strips that are currently in print or available digitally
The weirdest job I ever had: ‘I get messages from the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit tells me that you’ll make a perfect Editorial and Research Manager’
Some comics are defined as ‘classics’, while others are regarded as innovative titles years ahead of their time. Then there’s Métal Hurlant, possibly the most influential comic ever published...
Cult filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky moonlights as the author of the most crazed, uncompromising, visually stunning comics you're ever likely to read...
It was the original Itchy and Scratchy Show, a comic saga of love, bricks and misunderstanding that featured the strangest romantic triangle ever...
April 24th is my youngest daughter's birthday. It would have been my Dad's, too. Here's something I wrote about the two of them.
