Books That Made Me

Based on the Guardian series, here. The book I am currently reading I'm very good at starting books. The book that changed my life I guess it would be the first one I copy edited and the author didn't complain. I wish I could remember what it was. The book I wish I’d written So …

On Why We Like What We Like

Everything you've done, everything you've experienced, everything someone said to you has a chance of adding another facet to your character. It's enough to make you never want to leave the house, isn't it? But what about the media we absorb every day - not the news, views, and eye-bleeding hate that passes for political …

Marvels

Writer: Kurt Busiek Artist: Alex Ross Letterer: Richard Starkings Marvels is one of those comic-books that shows there is genius in simplicity—in ideas that seem so obvious once someone tells you, but you would never have thought of yourself. Let's tell the story of the Marvel Golden Age onwards through the eyes of normal New …

Sculptor

Writer/Artist: Scott McCloud Look, we're only human and within that complex web of biology, psychology and need to own every shiny new thing also rests a dark core. And that dark core burns hard when someone who has previously written the industry's best how-to books such as Understanding Comics, Making Comics, and Reinventing Comics actually …

Echo

Writer/Artist: Terry Moore Echo is what happens when someone really really wants to know what Terry Moore would do with an Iron Man story. Kind of. If you've read Strangers in Paradise (and you really should), then you'll have a fair idea about how this goes. The man in the metal suit is a woman; …