Melbourne next week, Onna Bugeisha, Magpie, Bullet Gal, the Little Nobody Machine gig, art, & interviews

This Monday, I’m heading home to Melbourne for a couple of weeks, mostly to see family and mates. But I’ll also be there to launch the novel Black Sails, Disco […]

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15 Years in Japan, the Bullet Gal novel is Here, and a few Influences

Today marks my fifteenth year in Japan; the Tokyo anniversary is tomorrow, as I initially arrived in Osaka and stayed overnight there. Who would’ve figured this on July 26, 2001, […]

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Is There Really An Aussie Indie Comics Explosion? + Bullet Gal reviews & op-eds + Kindle discount

So tomorrow night (Friday 22 July) there’s a panel on at San Diego Comic Con presented by some mates of mine from Australia. It deals with the apparent renaissance right […]

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Onna Bugeisha, Bullet Gal, Magpie, Crash & Black Sails, Disco Inferno

This week, I started work on a new comic book series named Onna Bugeisha, which is in fact based on one of the core-members of super hero team the Fenders in […]

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Li’l Big Dipper, Black Sails, Disco Inferno, Magpie, Bullet Gal, etc.

I’m currently fortunate enough to be working with Australian artist Stu Campbell on a one-off comic short for national zine Oi Oi Oi!, and here’s a tease/process glimpse of the lovely W.I.P. […]

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Magpie Ep. 2, Bullet Gal redux, reviews, guff, and novel #6 about to be published

May’s kicked itself into fair gear (already!), and there’re several things afoot over the coming 4 weeks. Rather than waffle on and bore senseless any prospective readership here (which I’m […]

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Black Sails, Disco Inferno

My new novel has a home, and will be published by late June! Saying it’s “mine”, however, is a wee bit egotistical. This baby belongs as much to American writer […]

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Mini Update

As you can probably tell from my use here of the great Jack Kirby‘s work (nicked from a panel in The Eternals #14 (Aug. 1977), inked by Mike Royer, I’ve had my […]

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Comics galore!

You know, I wasn’t going to stick an exclamation mark on the end of the title to this entry, but it just seemed so right – especially when you look […]

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Novel #6 finished, plus Magpie’s in full flight

It snowed properly in Tokyo yesterday for the first time in 2 years, and the mercury dropped to -1°C (I’ll let you figure that out in Fahrenheit), albeit for a […]

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