The Lille Deal

I've just returned from a very pleasant visit to Lille for their Comics Festival, where we were treated like kings. Kings, I tell you! And I made some friends. Here are a few of them:


Left to Right: Emma Simcock-Tooth, Ali Pow3rs, Emily Hare and Kev Crossley


Left to Right: D'Israeli, Lin Carey, Mike Carey, Jamie Delano, Chris Weston


Left to Right: David Billoir, Jamie Delano, Bryan Talbot, Alan Mitchell, Lin Carey and Mike Carey.



I also did a bunch of sketches - here are a couple I managed to bring home with me:






A big thank you to the sponsors and hosts of the show. They even managed to find some vegetarian food for me, which I had expected would prove impossible in France (the country where eating meat is not just a right, but a duty).

And yes, all right, the beds and the rooms in which we found them were exactly the same size, but you can't have everything.

Newsaramalamadingdong

I just received an e-mail from my frequent collaborator Scott Gray telling me that our latest story, "How Fin Fang Foom Saved Christmas", is available in its entirety from Newsarama. If you want to take a look, pop on over.

And that Doctor Who story should be out any day now, because I received my copy in the mail yesterday (issue #377, fact finders). Thanks to James Offredi's extraordinary colouring, it looks absolutely bee-yootiful. (I think the Goon Noir #2, with my Pete & Dud story, is out now as well -- but don't quote me.)

This weekend I'll be at a comics festival in Lille, so to both my French fans, I'll look forward to meeing you!