In Christmas With Clovis we established that Pixy Garage is somewhere you should never visit. The arcade game that the proprietor (probably called “Les”) is leaning against is called Space Junk (1986) and its attract mode features a garbled digitised voice saying “WATCH WHO YOU’RE CALLING SPACE JUNK, METEOR MOUTH” every 90 seconds.
As the top of this website has told you for a while now, the second Steeple volume is out next week, collecting the Silvery Moon and Secret Sentai stories from last year, plus a few extras.
Readers in the UK, if you get the book from OK Comics in Leeds (in-shop or online), you’ll get a signed, numbered, exclusive bookplate drawn by me. It is depicted below.
Thank you for your attention! Your support for this series… is appreciated.
[Note: the book is in comic shops next week, and other bookshops on August 17th]
$3-and-up subscribers to my Patreon can read the first chapter of STEEPLE: CLOTTED CRIME in full, as a PDF now.
Patreon subscribers get access to, how can I put this, a lot of good stuff at this point – weird impromptu comic strips in a variety or formats, blog posts, sketches, process posts, historical trawls through my archive, and at all tiers of $3 and above, a trove of PDF editions of comics, including the new Bobbins collections from this year. Read in a higher resolution than things go up on the web, while supporting new comics here and extras like guest covers.
Thank you to my Patreon subscribers for your continued support!
Rounding out the collection, you can now get the 3rd and 4th New Bobbins books on my Gumroad page. They’re £1 each. Both feature new essays. My work here is, for the time being, done.
$3-and-up Patreon subscribers can download them here at no additional charge.
You can get it here on my Gumroad page for £1. The next one should be up by this time next week.
Or, if you’re a $3 or higher tier Patreon subscriber, it’s available to download now as part of your membership.
The old Scary Go Round site has been running a near 20-year old CMS that can go no further. Getting thousands of legacy comics onto a new one won’t be easy. An attempt to move it to WordPress/ComicEasel collapsed under the weight of my three-headed archive. The success story continues.
You can read the Bad Machinery archive on GoComics (the enhanced version with all the extra book pages) and I’ll organise a page where you can sort all the chapters easily. In the meantime, I’m assembling PDF collections of the “New Bobbins” stories. $3 and up Patreon subscribers will get these as part of their subscription, just keep an eye on my Patreon page.
Otherwise, you can pay what you want for them on my Gumroad. I’ll try to put a PDF up every week – the first is up now. There are four collections – A Magical Pink Being (Amy is pregnant), Out Of The Woods (Shelley and Tim cause a great local disaster), End Of The Road (wrapping up the Erin Winters/Eustace Boyce comics) and Hard Yards (the epic wrap-up).
They each feature a new essay and notes.
