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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Novel #7 finished, Pigtails award, and extra-added reviews

It’s been the month of Bullet Gal for me at this end. This week I wrapped the novelization of the yarn, which takes place just after Depth Charging Ice Planet […]

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New Bullet Gal reveal, reviews, new novel, plus Crash Soirée

I just did a piece for Bleeding Cool on the ongoing presence of my character Bullet Girl, a.k.a. Mitzi, last name unknown. She started out as a bit-player in my […]

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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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Get WHO IS KILLING THE GREAT CAPES OF HEROPA? for FREE — plus KICKSTARTER update

As a way of saying thanks to everyone who’s supported Bullet Gal, Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat: The Graphic Novel and other novels? I chatted to publishers Perfect Edge Books and we’ve […]

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Fall in Tokyo

I hate using the word ‘fall’ for autumn. It always gives me the compulsion to push someone over. But then I guess we’d have to change it to “fell”. Or […]

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