London
Oh, London. Next month, I’m going to be moving away from London, which is going to be a strange change for me – leaving behind the city that’s been home for most of my life, apart from brief sojourns in Norwich and Leeds, and the place that’s been home throughout my adulthood. It’s also the...
The Lengths Issue One: Weird Hours Available Online
The first issue of The Lengths is available to view online. If you’re new to The Lengths, it’s the story of a young escort in London getting caught up in knots trying to please everyone and, possibly, forgetting about himself. The series as a whole, currently on issue six of eight, is available in...
Issue 6 Preview
Issue six, Art History, is coming soon. Eddie has to face the consequences of the choices he’s made and face his demons and himself and answer the painful question: has it been worth the price he’s paid to create the new life he’s leading as Ford? Challenging realisations and surprises await as he looks back...
Ontario legalises brothels
Eddie makes his case, from The Lengths 3. Just been reading that the state of Ontario in Canada has passed a law making it easier and safer for prostitutes to advertise and to work together in brothels. While the article I’ve linked to is right, and this doesn’t address the issues of poverty and...
Postage costs to go up from 30th April
As you’ve probably seen, the price of a stamp is set to rise by a third from the end of April. At the moment, I’ve been able to under-price a lot of the postage and packaging on my comics by buying envelopes in bulk, but the prices of stamps are set to rise by a...
More Press Coverage for The Lengths and The Peckham Invalids
It’s been a very exciting couple of months for me, particularly in terms of coverage. First off, there was the wonderful piece in Out There magazine, then Attitude and Gay Times both picked up on The Lengths and I’ve had lovely things said about the comic over on Broken Frontier and Forbidden Planet’s blog as...
The Lengths 6: Art History
Given that image, I think it’s safe to assume that issue 6 continues Eddie’s spiral towards the nadir of his story. In some ways, I’d say that issue 6, Art History, is the equivalent to the 11 o’clock number of the series, and I’m really pleased to have reached this point. When this is a...
The Lengths 5: There Is No Hell – Press Release
So, issue five of The Lengths arrived on our doorstep bright and early this morning. For those of you who are new to the story, here’s a copy of the press release Sarah put together a few weeks ago.
The Lengths 5: There Is No Hell.
The Lengths issue 5: There Is No Hell has now been sent off to print after a slight delay. I suppose it’s what people call personal circumstances, but I’m not sure what the polite way of describing it is when your most recent ex-boyfriend suddenly dies over Christmas. Whatever the term is for that, that’s...
The Lengths Issue 5 Preview
Eddie, what are you running from? The last few months have been insane for me. The Lengths has found its way into Out There and Attitude Magazines, it’s now in a load of new shops, I’ve spent some quite healthy time away from London in Sweden and on the Isle of Wight, I’ve met a...
Dog Ends, Year End
I always lose weight at Christmas. I think it’s because I actually have the time to walk or cycle places rather than sprint to the station and then rush everywhere. This year, I went out to Malmö to see friends and had the time to walk through the city’s parks and streets and along by...
Season’s Greetings
Turn water into wine, kill a wren, a man, a pig or the sun. Burn candles or clocks, coax the sun out with a mirror; give presents to your gods, your mothers or each other. Whether you’re marking the birth of doomed god or the arrival of a man riding a goat to bring presents;...