I have a strip, with art from the great Dennis Calero, in L.A. Strong, a charity comics anthology in support of the victims of the L.A. fires, released by Mad Cave today. The line up of comicker talent is extraordinary, as you can see below. You can order a copy, and read all about it, here and you can see an exclusive preview, including many finished pages, at The Beat, here.

And if you’re in the UK, you can order a copy from Forbidden Planet mail order here. 

There will be a launch event for the book this Saturday, March 22nd, from 7pm, at the Revenge Of Comics and Pinball store in Los Angeles. You can find all the details here.

(Cover by Ian Churchill.)

Ace Jacket

I’ve contributed a short story to this anthology in aid of autism charities, edited by Sophie Aldred and Shawn J. Levy. It’s out on June 17th. You can read all about it and pre-order a copy here.

‘The Longest War’

That’s the title of the issue of Commando I’ve written, which is tentatively due to be released in August. The artist is the great Steve Yeowell, and it’s amazing work. I’m delighted to have contributed to this very exacting classic format. More news nearer the time!

(Cover rough by Steve Yeowell.)

The Mighty Avengers Vs. the 1970s

I’ve got a book coming out from Bloomsbury that’s part of a new range of popular studies of Marvel Comics! The Mighty Avengers vs. the 1970s is fully illustrated with panels from the comics, and is my journey through how Marvel’s main super team navigated that difficult decade. (Release date, etc., TBA.) You can read the announcement here at AP News. This is very much a labour of love for me, a book I’ve wanted to find a way to write for the longest time.

Gnomes of Lychford and The Lychford Collection

On 9th September, Tor.com Publishing is releasing the sixth book in my Lychford series of rural fantasy novellas, Gnomes of Lychford. It’s a re-editing of the serial I ran on this newsletter, and I’ve taken the opportunity to sort out a couple of little plot problems.

I think it’s my best Lychford book, and, weirdly, it’s a great jumping-on point, because everything about the series is explained at the start.

You can read all about it here.

“An unlikely group of supernatural creatures terrorizes the sleepy village of Lychford. Okay, they’re gnomes. That’s not a spoiler: you worked it out it from the title. When an ancient prophecy clashes with an unfortunate modern design aesthetic, the people of Lychford must band together to put out fires (both literal and metaphorical) to save their town before the king of the Gnomes (King Greg, and it’s dangerous to laugh at a gnome) calls in the terms of an old promise.

Trouble is: no one knows what the promise is, nor how to fulfil it.

It’s going to be a long night.”

On the same day, they’ll also be publishing The Lychford Collection, which contains my first three Lychford novellas

Telefantasy Time Jump

The new podcast from me and Lizbeth Myles, Telefantasy Time Jump, is out now. In this series, every month we’ll be covering a show from the history of UK Science Fiction and Fantasy TV, as we make our way through that history, starting with 1953 and The Quatermass Experiment. We’ll also be talking about what else was released that year.

Episodes will be released on the 14th of every month, and you can find them wherever you get your podcasts. March’s episode covers 1955, and thus Quatermass 2.

If you become a Patron at £3/$3 or above, you also get an extra monthly episode on the 28th of every month, covering what the rest of the world was doing in SFF TV in that same year. For 1955, we’ll be covering Science Fiction Theatre.

You also get access to seven years of bonus episodes from the Hammer House of Podcast archive.

We hope you’ll join us on our new journey. You can find all the details, and listen to the episodes, here.

My Ko-fi and eBay Stores

I’ve re-stocked my Ko-fi store, where you can buy my books and comics, signed and personalised, for shipping worldwide.

Similarly, I’ve now re-stocked my ebay store, full of Bronze Age Marvel comics at bargain prices.

My Linktree

You can now find all my social media links, my website/blog and links to where you can buy my books, in one place here, thanks to Linktree!

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