• Pinocchio, The Simpsons and Cirque Du Freak

    30 July 2020

    There was a fascinating episode of the Why do we read this? podcast a couple of months ago, where the co-hosts look at the similarities between the original Pinocchio story and The Simpsons and... ...

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  • Beastly Sunburn

    29 July 2020

    I've featured a lot of fan art here over the years (such as just a couple of days ago, when I posted a few Darren Shan drawings), but this spine-shivering work by Amity Lee is one of the more...

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  • 20 Book-To-Movie Castings That People Actually Kind Of Hated

    28 July 2020

    There was a fun article published over on Buzzfeed a couple of months back, entitled 20 Book-To-Movie Castings That People Actually Kind Of Hated. It's one of those pieces of internet fluff that...

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  • Princely fan art

    27 July 2020

    Let's be honest -- of all the characters I've ever created across the 54 or so books that I've published, I don't think anyone can argue that the smartest, the bravest, the most ingenious, the...

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  • If you go down to the woods today…

    26 July 2020

    As I do most Sundays, I'm sharing some Shan family snaps. These were taken on a rainy Saturday a few weeks back, in our local forest park in Curraghchase, before I'd gone for my first haircut since...

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  • Cheapo Lox

    25 July 2020

    A quick little follow-up to yesterday's post, in which I was talking about the exorbitant prices of the Cirque Du Freak manga volumes, and how we were working on releasing much cheaper digital...

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