Art
Kevin O’Neil and Blitzspear
The passing away of Kevin O’Neil has hit me more than I’d ever have thought it would. His comic art blew my little mind back when I was a kid. Today I was thinking how overlooked his design of Blitzspear (the living spacecraft of Nemesis The Warlock) is. It never makes any top ten of […]
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NEW NOVEL!!! SPRING ‘23!!! Set hundreds of years after the events of Pennyblade, a theatre manager/bastard brother of the king deals with rumours of a very real folktale murderer and a building whose very existence corrupts the minds of those who see or hear about it. Set in the world of Pennyblade, Becken Keep is […]
Read more "NEW FANTASY NOVEL, ‘THE KEEP WITHIN’, Spring ‘23 from Titan Books!"‘Moonstar Battle’, A Painting by Eddie Jones
A painting and a question for all you old guard SF peeps out there.
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Author Interview: Erika Price
Erika Price is an independent comic writer-artist whose work is as experimental as it is visually startling, straddling the line between body horror and outsider art. Ever gracious, Erika agreed to answer some of my questions… JLW: Your Disorder series is described as ‘dark and surreal short horror comics created as art therapy’. Does horror […]
Read more "Author Interview: Erika Price"FaceApp gender filter sure does odd things to a face with a long chin beard…
Portraits Of ME!!!
My longtime pal (and frontman of my old band) Pete Sheppard has done a series of glitch portraits of yours truly. Ain’t they good? (You can find his work at his instagram, phale _420 )
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If you’ve been following me on Twitter and Instagram in the last few months you may have noticed a lot of weird portraits. Many of my followers think them vile. I sort of agree, despite making them. Heck, I’m barely in control of making them. All I’m doing is leisurely pushing FaceApp (that app for […]
Read more "YOU can be Francis Bacon using this simple app trick!!!"Feral Space Character Sketches
A few years ago I wrote a post on my old blog about the value of drawing your characters before writing your novel (and then another post where I broke out the pencil crayons). In short, it’s a process that get’s me to empathise with the characters and slip into their world, at least a […]
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J.L. Worrad 