This might seem crazy, as the summer comes to an end and for teachers like me work begins again in earnest, but I'm actually in rather a good mood. For a start, it's the end of summer 2012 which  - in the...

I think it's fair to say that the biggest thing to happen in Britain this year is the Olympic Games. The Queen's Diamond Jubilee was fun (thanks for the extra day off work, your Majesty) but it was...

This isn't the column I had intended to write. It's not even the one I thought I had to. It's the one that forced itself from my unsuspecting fingers as they danced unbidden across the...

I am very, very happy. My copy of Sleaze Castle Etcetera: The (in)Complete Final Cut Vol. 1* hit my doormat a few days ago, and I have been revelling in it ever since. My relationship with Sleaze Castle,...

There is a lot that goes on in comics that I'm not happy about. The overwhelmingly sexist and negative portrayal of female characters that seems to persist in the "mainstream", for instance....

It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that there is nothing new under the sun.* Ideas are strangely self replicating, and the really good ones keep resurfacing. Once, people told each other stories...

I think I must be missing something again. Something is going on that makes no sense to me/ Of course that might be down to my lack of intellect. But even accepting that, I'm still concerned - because...

There is only one sure fire way to become a millionaire by making comics, but it's very, very simple. All you do is start with two million and work from there.It's an old joke, but that doesn't...

The current storm surrounding Gary Friedrich and his legal difficulties with Marvel has served to re-open* the can of worms that is creator rights. For those of you who have been hiding under a rock for...

They've only bloody gone and done it.Not quite in the way I was expecting them to, but DC are going ahead with a new Watchmen based project. Even if you're reading this on the day this column is...