Clotted Crime part 1 on Patreon

by on July 19, 2021 at 7:09 am
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$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!

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New Bobbins ebooks

by on April 30, 2021 at 3:40 pm
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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.

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STEEPLE returns/ VOLUME 2 due August 17th

by on April 7, 2021 at 1:44 pm
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Steeple returns on Monday with a new 2-part story, “AUTHOR UNKNOWN?”, a crossover with Charlotte Grote of BAD MACHINERY and WICKED THINGS. Patreon subscribers (at the $3 and up tiers) will be able to read part 1 in full then, or you can enjoy it at webcomic pace on the website for the next 14 weeks. Following that, I have a four-part story in the works, a third “season” if you like with a complete arc that should take us into 2022.

In related news, Dark Horse have collected last year’s two stories, The Silvery Moon and Secret Sentai, into a new book. It’s out on August 4th in comic shops (Previews code APR210425) and August 17th in bookshops – get it any way you like! It features new artwork, a few new pages, a sketchbook section, and a beautiful cover by Giant Days artist Max Sarin.

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