Pinocchio, The Simpsons and Cirque Du Freak
30 July 2020There 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... ...
Beastly Sunburn
29 July 2020I'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...
20 Book-To-Movie Castings That People Actually Kind Of Hated
28 July 2020There 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...
Princely fan art
27 July 2020Let'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...
If you go down to the woods today…
26 July 2020As 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...
Cheapo Lox
25 July 2020A 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...