It’s been a big week getting thoughtballons to go live. It’s also been a very bloody cool week getting the site to go live. It’s a big thing to put yourself out there, and to then also put your writing out there is a very personal thing to do but it has been a success [...]
Posted on May 30th, 2010 by ryan
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I’m a massive Coen Brothers fan. I dig their flicks, but on so many different levels. I have The Big Lebowski in my Top Ten Movies of all time because I just absolutely love it so hard. Yet I can understand and appreciate that Miller’s Crossing is actually their best made film, and that would [...]
Posted on May 26th, 2010 by ryan
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I can remember when LOST began, all those years ago. It was a different time, I had just started teaching, I was in my early 20′s, I was living on my own. The world was a different place but it would become so much more as this show began. The ads came on and it [...]
Posted on May 24th, 2010 by ryan
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I’ve teased it a few times in the recent past but it’s now time to give up the ghost. I have to come clean and open everything to the public. It’s the only fair and true thing to do. I’ve created a club. A writing club. And it’s goes live online tomorrow, consider this your [...]
Posted on May 21st, 2010 by ryan
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Sometimes you just don’t have time to say I love you, but you can still show it. The boys at Eclectic Micks have done me happy again as Declan Shalvey draws Daredevil. Click the image to see a larger version. This is a pretty well composed page, plenty of room for the title print and [...]
Posted on May 21st, 2010 by ryan
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Sometimes I get trashed for not making my characters likable enough. They’re pricks or even downright assholes and so many people tell me you can’t write a novel if the reader doesn’t care about the protagonist. Apparently the world needs more cute boy wizards and angsty girls with no personality. To those people I say, [...]
Posted on May 18th, 2010 by ryan
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Sometimes you just don’t have time to say I love you, but you can still show it. Stephen King is releasing a new book just before Christmas, how fortuitous. It’s called Full Dark, No Stars. Kind of an emo title, but I’m sure King will make it all so much more awesome. There will be [...]
Posted on May 15th, 2010 by ryan
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Incognito. It’s a comic from last year. It’s written by Ed Brubaker. It’s drawn by Sean Phillips. It’s coloured by Val Staples. It’s got back matter essays by Jess Nevins. It’s nominated for an Eisner award for best short story. It’s one of the best things ever written. These statements are all fact. And now [...]
Posted on May 13th, 2010 by ryan
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There are certain names you want to live forever. But that can’t happen. I can remember being a younger little man and Roald Dahl passing away. It was terrible news, it meant that every title on my shelf was all I was ever going to get from him. Sure, they published The Minpins posthumously, but [...]
Posted on May 10th, 2010 by ryan
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I’m at that stage of a project where I’m damn excited. It’s about all I can think about and I just want to make sure I have everything in place before I rush blindly over the top and into the gunfire. I’m thinking about all the different aspects of the project as I go to [...]
Posted on May 10th, 2010 by ryan
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