My annual round up of what I've been up to throughout the year.
In January, my weekly webcomic Bell Time continued with pages 28-31.
John Freeman interviewed me over at
Down the Tubes.
That Comic Smell podcast presented two episodes. In the first we discussed our
Top 3 Bronze Age comics, the second covered
Justice League International Volume 2.
My other webcomic concerns the Tay Bridge disaster. Here is the 22nd strip.
Copy That! #59 featured my comic, Down to a Tea.
In February I presented Bell Time pages 32-35.
I took part in
Hourly Comic Day.
We enthused about our favourite comic shops and comic shop memories in
That Comic Smell.
I posted my
23rd Tay Bridge Disaster comic strip.
Bell Time pages 36-40 were posted in March.
In April, That Comic Smell discussed
Batman and
Fantagraphics.
Bell Time 41-44 and
Dundee Shmundee #24 were posted.
Bell Time continued in May with pages 45-48.
I put together a collection of comics I did in the 1990s and released them as
But a Dream!
That Comic Smell did our
third Justice League International episode, and a show where we each picked three random comics to
Review, Recommend. Highly Rate.
I guested on the
Comic Scene podcast, discussing Hulk Annual 1980 and Soldier’s Heart by Carol Tyler.
In June Bell Time was approaching the end with episodes 49-53.
Star Jaws 3 of 3 from Barnstormer Comics featured two of my comics, Was There Always a Bigger Fish? and Training Days.
That Comic Smell discussed
Slice of Life comics and
Film and TV tie-ins.
I wrote a guest blog for
Daddy Duder Comics.
Bell Time came to a conclusion in July with the posting online of 54-56. I decided to colour the pages digitally before collecting them for print.
In August That Comic Smell discussed
British Super-Heroes, and Tom did his first
Creator Conversation; starting with me!
August was also the 10th anniversary of this blog and I did a competition to giveaway the entire Fred Egg Comics back catalogue.
A Place to Hang Your Cape interviewed me.
I wrote an article on the
Walt Simonson Star Wars Artist Edition, and conducted an interview with Death Wish writer
Barrie Tomlinson.
In September Good Comics ran my comic
God Bless the Posties.
1990s comics were the topic for That Comic Smell.
I did a couple of Hulk panels for Adam Falp's
102: Tribute to Jack Kirby.
In October I was guest on Samuel George London's
Comics for the Apocalypse podcast - a kind of Desert Island Discs for comics.
I had a comic called Coming of Age in
Bloom; the latest anthology from Big Brown Eyes.
That Comic Smell did a second episode on
horror comics for Halloween.
In November I posted online my Blade Runner tribute comic Los Angeles, November 2019.
In the run up to attending Thought Bubble to launch Bell Time, I appeared on
An Englishman in San Diego.
The print edition of
Bell Time was released, with coloured pages, guest writers' stories drawn by me, and making of section.
I had a couple of comics in
Funtime Comics Anthology #32.
My comic Water (Load of Rubbish) was published in the
Water Worlds anthology.
That Comic Smell visited
Thought Bubble and recorded a show whilst there.
Star Jaws began publishing my Blade Runner comic with
#29.
In December That Comic Smell did a show on
Books about comics, a show on
Annuals and 2019 favourites, and then faced off with
The Awesome Comics Podcast in an end of year quiz.
Have a great 2020, everyone!