Still Working…

It has been a long time since I posted an update here. This has been because I have not had much to report as an update.  I am still working on The Rat King and am about halfway through now, but my ME/CFS has been bad for the last six months and it has made writing difficult.

I have good days and bad days and on good days I need to work.  This has meant that writing has taken something of a back seat for a few months.

I also had some very sad news at the end of May.

Carl Cropley, a friend and artist, who drew the cover for The Rat King died suddenly and unexpectedly.  He had been ill for a very short while and developed pancreatitis from which he never recovered.

I had worked with Carl for over 25 years on various projects off and on, starting with Redfox the comic.  I was writing the scripts and he was inking backgrounds when we met.  After that he went on to produce all the art for my various computer games, we worked on other comics proposals and had talked about a couple of new projects recently.

I really can’t believe that he has gone.

So, the Rat King has to be finished as a tribute to a friend and a great artist.