Andy Luke's Blog

Hello your eyes. Here’s the almighty first episode of Screencleaner with LOADS on MP media interests, a gaming and then a bad film review; lots of fun edutainment. These are going out every Wednesday at 10pm for the next six weeks.

And a roundup of October’s videos,

Press Gang Reader: 2×10 The Rest of My Life https://youtu.be/VXM4BuKDtgQ
200 Seconds Sunny: 7×06 Storm of the Century https://youtu.be/0JWXWYiwvBQ
Press Gang Reader: 2×11 Yesterday’s News https://youtu.be/2jM_icI35vg
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I’ve been going at it with video creation lately. (YouTube.com/@andrewluke)

13 in September on Patreon: micro-reviewing Always Sunny, weekly for 82 weeks now, go me. Press Gang video essays, which is turning up some odd links and as I finish Series 2 is painting a picture of a show marrying reliable industry veterans with fresh new talent. The project of reading all of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld for the first time continues. On top of that I’m rolling out videos from the Caption Comics Festi...

Caption Comics Fest has happened and everyone enjoyed it and James Kochalka said he wished he could have been there. A Work Capability Assessment was a trial and a verdict was good. New gerbil babies were born, some died. The Gen 1 gerb Abed died, and I am remembering I can’t feed him. RIP Abed 2022-2025. Goodbye old buddy.

I found Abed night Friday 29th, around 10. Cold but not stone-cold. On Thursday I called him for his favourite foods. When he didn’t come I left them out. A ‘special’...

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Hello. I thought it was about right for a check-in as to were I’m going with life and Patreon and YouTube. My Universal Credit issues were resolved around three weeks ago, or at least a respite around them for the Summer. It all feels unstable as to after that. For now I can pay my rent and other essential bills with some left over for unforeseen expenses and things like funeral outfits and an afternoon at the cafe here and there. I will be going to Caption, a great c...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Death-Everyone-John-Robbins-ebook/dp/B0CSC3F7Y3

This horror-comedy is careful not to exploit the cruelty of its dicey theme, favouring consistent light wit over crash-bang punchlines.

The word count is economical in this adventure of key protagonist Humphrey Hardly, himself a masterclass in writing the outsider. The tortured soul is deftly contrasted in public settings and interactions, but author Robbins gives Humphrey no pass in showing his culpability with v...

This blog has been vacant a while but 2023 has been one of my most productive. I began the year finishing my commentaries on Occupied, the comedic protest novel set in Belfast.

If you have a Patreon account and subscribe for free these commentaries ought to show up.

In January, a poll went out on what readers wanted to see. They chose activist art, like the 5-track poetry EP…

Fun with MS Paint…

And a film about my life as an activist.

From a visual standpoint ...

Patreon.com/andyluke is my home most of these days. Got to look after the paying customers first. And some times that finds its way to audiences.

Half Baked Alaska is my new novel, a thriller-comedy set in the Aleutians range circa 1950s. Serialisation is just beginning.

200 Seconds Sunny. A series of capsule audio-video reviews of Always Sunny in Philadelphia. We’re just beginning series 2. Good reception.

I’ve Never Read Discworld is a quite popular podcast series. We’ve previewed The...

In October 2019 I decided to give the 24 hour comics another go. It was an honourable failure: sixteen pages in sixteen hours (within twenty-six hours) I’m happy with the results which formed the backbone for chapters 27-28 of the novel. So I present it for you now, and as a download if you prefer.

You can find out more about the book at https://andy-luke.com/occupied and order OCCUPIED direct from Amazon, and you should.

One of the most explosive installments in Occupied is loosely based on the 2010 anti-tuition fees march in Belfast. At the urging of editor Claire Burn, (“this chapter was incredible… send this one”), I’m making this available now as a free PDF download.

I learned last night our new bookcast, I’ve never read Discworld, made the Apple top 50 for UK book pods in September. O Team!

It was pleasant news after two days graft editing. There’s the new episode of The Drew and Look Podcast to come, in which I interview indie start-up SHP Comics about creative entrepreneurship, as well as sex, sci-fi and vampires. The Drew and Look has been on hiatus a while. Some months back, the interview with comedy horror novelist, Philip Henry, got a lot of love.