Our story “Intergalactic Bank Robbing Teenage Space Aliens On The Run” appears in issue 12.

Story by me, art by Jim Boswell.

Lots of other good stuff in there too!

Got my comp copies of the Spring ’09 issue of The Stinging Fly today.

128 pages packed full of top quality fiction and poetry including my short story The Profligacy Show (in which someone pisses themselves, so, might be worth a punt for all the urine fetishists out there), plus poems by Knut Ødegård, and a short story by Booker Prize winner James Kelman.

Only seven euros . . . bargain!

Northern Haunts is a horror anthology containing 100 700-word short stories, including my contribution, Bad Place.

It’s available now on amazon.

Proceeds go to the American Cancer Society.

Jim Boswell has started work on Project Luna: 1947.

Here’s a tiny peek at what he’s been up to . . .

I especially like the fact that the fellow on the right somehow ended up looking like HP Lovecraft.  This makes me strangely happy.

More images over on Jim’s blog.

Here’s John Cahill’s spiffing inked version of the panel I posted a couple of days ago – top cropped off so as not to give the game away with word balloons and what not.

Project Luna: 1947 will be an 88 page original graphic novel written by me with art by Jim Boswell, who I worked with a little while ago on a four page sci-fi strip for Futurequake.

Contracts with Markosia are signed and we’re good to go.  Above is Jim’s first mock-up cover, a try out as he gets to grips with the characters, sorts out their hair colours and builds, designs the ships and what not, and it looks rather splendid.

Jim’s a great artist and I’m really looking forward to seeing his pages as they come in.

So, some good news to end the year on.  Who knows . . . next year might not be complete shit after all.

Most people would probably have announced their new comic column just as the first one was hitting the net, but we do things differently around here.

So, I am announcing my new-ish comic column, It Came From Beneath The Bed, which I write for GeekPlanet.  Issue six, in which I talk about the Sub-Mariner and insult a major Hollywood celebrity, went up last week.  You can read them all here.

It’s weekly but irregular (like the bowel movements of an elderly man or a woman of any age) and is full of pictures and about 1000 words of waffle about comics.

It is probably the most best written comic column on the internet.  And no mistake.

I wrote a short review of Warren Ellis’s graphic novella, Crécy, for GeekPlanet.

My short story, Spamface, appears in this week’s issue of Nature, on sale August 28th.

Here’s a panel from the first page of “Intergalactic Bank Robbing Teenage Space Aliens on the Run,” a four-page strip for FutureQuake.

Art and letters by Jim Boswell, who, as always, is doing an insanely good job.

I wish I could show the whole page, Jim’s art really is spiffing stuff.

Short review for GeekPlanet.

I’ll be writing a few bits and pieces for sci-fi website GeekPlanet.

First piece of mine is about the old BBC Quatermass serials for their Why We Love…  column.

You can read it here.

My story Something out of Nothing appears in Barren Worlds, a new anthology from Hadley Rille Books.

$12.92 here.

Tim Deal emailed me to say that my story Bad Place has been accepted for his new anthology Northern Haunts.

All proceeds go to the American Cancer Society.

Cover art by Christopher Zibelli

Got some great news yesterday.  Nature editor Henry Gee emailed me to say that he’s accepting my short story “Spamface” for publication in the Futures section of an upcoming issue.

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