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Thwipster appears to be selling the FELL: FERAL CITY book...

Thwipster appears to be selling the FELL: FERAL CITY book on the cheap for the next 13 hours or so (it's 4pm UK time as  I write this.  There's also a very brief interview with me there.

Red Phone Box

This looks like an interesting way to do a collaborative fiction:

Red Phone Box (the English name for phone booth) is a collaborative writing project. The inaugural story, written by Salome Jones,  was published here on Saturday, 28 March, 2011. Each Saturday, another story will be published, written by a contributing author.

Each writer will read what's come before and try to come up with something that adds to, builds on, builds up, or changes what has already happened…

Steed Of The Water-BearSimon Roy

Steed Of The Water-Bear

Simon Roy

Station Ident

 

(Heli Ervasti)

The Truth Behind The Scenes Of Fraggle Rock

Anna Young made this. The fraggle had it coming.

(She makes all kinds of weird stuff. Crucified fairies and things.)

Almost a year later, this still has me completely earworm...

Almost a year later, this still has me completely earwormed:

Impossible Girl #1 by Kim Boekbinder

Saying hello to Kim, who's in NYC right now, scheming with Molly Crabapple.

Station Ident

Good morning, sinners.

(lifted shamelessly from the Instagram stream of Jock.)

Secret Origins

Home from Expo.  Picking at the FELL #11 script before dinner.  Woolgathering.

You know how FELL happened?  I had an email newsletter thing, years ago, and I'd been talking about what became the FELL format (later called Slimline Format by Image Comics.)  And I said, what I really need to make this work is a brilliant artist who can do 16 pages a month and hates money.

And Ben Templesmith emailed me an hour later and said "Me"!"

So I wrote FELL for him.

(He's drawing #10 right now.)

Not a very interesting story, I know, but that confluence will never happen again.  It still makes me smile.  One of my best days in comics, that was.  Days like that haven't come often enough since.  Hell, imagine me throwing that question out into the void today…

I Am Everywhere At All Times

Wil Wheaton, Cherie Priest and Si Spurrier at Phoenix Comicon.  The photo came from Si, who entitled it "Beneath The Master's Sigil."

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Expo

Taken on way back to hotel room. Got bored with drinking alone. The signing was lovely, and I hope my partial blindness from allergies and my complete deafness didn't make me too cranky. Apart from that guy who showed up with a trolley stacked with boxes of my books. I should have killed you on sight. (Not really.) (A bit.)

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