Unattended Articles

 The Art Department called these "Visual Notebooks" when they gave them out, as if a thirteen-year-old me was going to fill it wit...

       I'd not noticed the Medusa outside Tate Britain before. Henry C. Fehr's The Rescue of Andromeda isn't the only depiction...

  In 2000AD's "D.R. & Quinch go to Hollywood" two alien sociopaths steal a handwritten screenplay from a corpse at a bus-...

 Here's me as "Morningstar", a psychedelic re-imagining of General Custer, from Tim Plester's play Yellow Longh...

Words by Alan Moore (again) who hates this now. Art by Brian Bolland, who doesn't.  Appropriately, Simon goes Full Shakespeare ...

Nice to see this all set out.  I'd forgotten how intertwined my love of Shakespeare was with my love of Alan Moore. I fell in...

On the topic of under-appreciated books about supermen ...  Some people find Superman boring because he's invulnerable, but he...

Isn't he great? He's so great.  When producer Claire Broughton sent out a list of possible authors to spoof for the third se...

1992  The novel's full title is The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale , and for Joseph Conrad maybe it was, but there are definitely sim...

Sorry it's all gone a bit slack here. I intended to finish my review of 2013 last week with a stirring post about the value of boredom, ...

In August we went to  Edinburgh, but this isn't a post about Edinbrugh.*  And we went to Rye - where I learnt there was once a smuggl...

This issue must have taken me ages. I was heavily into 2000AD by now, and who can blame me? My imagination had been pretty traumatised b...

  "Actually what we're really looking for right now is sex." "Like... What, what do you mean?" I asked. "A hun...