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Locked in - Exclusive Patreon comic

Locked in - Exclusive Patreon comic

A lot of ideas intersected in this one!

The Fermi Paradox of course: where is everyone in the universe?

The problem with light speed: in that once you start going faster than light the ...

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Huge (tho very quiet) progress!

Just smashed the halfway point on storyboarding (or thumb-nailing?) the Bad Space graphic novel. At nearly 100 pages, it looks like we’re aiming for a final book at about 200 pages.

I plan to finish the storyboarding this month, and then begin drawing the pages shortly after.

2025-07-14 01:28:59 +0000 UTC View Post

It’s heeeeere…

The book is in the post, Baddies!

My publisher has spent the day mailing out hundreds and will start on more tomorrow!

The video above was only just sent to me. I haven’t seen it myself, so some of you may get your hands on it even before I do!

Meanwhile, Ive started to wind down my day job to less hours for the next three mo...

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Big news for Bad Space

Big news for Bad Space

It’s official Baddies: I’m going to take a minimum six months off my day job to work on the Bad Space graphic novel.

I applied for (and got!) a grant, and combined with my Patreon, it should be do-able.

The script to the story is complete. So as soon as I sort...

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Dark Eve

Dark Eve

Inspired by one of the legends of science fiction. Including a couple of exclusive panels just for you.

Originally this entire comic was going to be an exclusive Patreon comic, but my publisher is hassling me to share comics to help with book sales, so normal scheduling will return with my next comic. Apologies for the delay!

Also...

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A stitch in time

A stitch in time

Hey Baddies - I’m about a week away from a fresh comic: the hold-up has been trying to get some of the art done to my satisfaction. Sometimes the panels fight me!

Above are a few pieces that have ended up on the editing room floor. And below is one that hasn’t. Bit of a gruesome, goth vibe going on for this one.

2025-05-30 21:32:10 +0000 UTC View Post

Preorders open

Preorders open

You can now preorder Bad Space Volume 1!

Hardcover Deluxe version here

2025-05-06 17:38:44 +0000 UTC View Post

SNEAK PEEK!

SNEAK PEEK!

Hey Baddies - Very exciting news!

Preorders for the book: BAD SPACE VOLUME 1 open May 6/7!

I will post all the details here the moment it goes live, to make sure you have first access.

There will be two editions - a softback version and a hardback version. They are going to be absolutely gorgeous and cram-packe...

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Into the Oort

New comic up.

I really wanted to do a ghost story, but within a technological framework. And I wanted to set it in the Oort Cloud, because there’s something spooky to me about being so far from home. Apart from that though, I had no idea where ...

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Ashes in our Mouth

Ashes in our Mouth

This story is inspired by a number of true events that have been knocking around my skull: in particular, that a solar flare really did nearly cause a nuclear war in 1967. And the second was that in the sixties, nuclear winter was an unknown potential consequence of nuclear war - was in fact science fiction, from their poi...

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Back to the sixties

Back to the sixties

I freaking love doing research for Bad Space Stories, I just discover such gruesome stuff - and Soviet history, in particularly, is hairy AF.

Which, in case you're wondering, is just a little tease for my next comic - which should be out in a week or so.

And yeah, it is taking longer than usual, because its nearly twice as lon...

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Cover art

Cover art

Been working on cover concepts for the Bad Space book. None of these have made the cut, but it's real fun exploring the possibilities.

Meanwhile, the comic files are now with the publisher, so we are moving pretty fast.

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The Giving Man

The Giving Man

I'm releasing this on Instagram as well, but you get the full version, with extra panels!

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Bad Space - BOOKED

Bad Space - BOOKED

In some great news to kick off 2025 - Bad Space is going to print this year!

I can’t say too much more yet, but we finally have a publisher I like, and it looks like we will have it on the shelves mid this year.

To keep the length manageable, it’s likely we will need to cull a few stories, so do let me know if thereâ€...

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Sleep of Prometheus

Sleep of Prometheus

Exclusive comic for you, Spacers.

I sometimes find the tension between the universe we live in and the cages we construct for ourselves a little confronting. I just wanted to explore that in this shorter piece.

Up next, we get into some gnarly hard sci-fi - just finishing up the script now!

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Scour

Scour

I'm releasing this comic on Instagram as well. But you get the full version, with five more panels. I'm not gonna lie, I like this long version a lot more.

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Ozymandias Redux

Ozymandias Redux

My very first Bad Space comic was The Billionaire. I was still finding my style when I drew this story and as such, of all my comics, the art in these panels doesn’t quite match the tone of everything else that has followed.

So on a whim, recently I u...

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Just the art

Just the art

I was pretty pleased with the way some of these pictures came out for my latest story, so I just wanted to show you how they looked clean.

I do build the artwork with the text boxes in mind, but occasionally I still prefer the originals by themselves...

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Brain scanner

Brain scanner

Some draft artwork for my next story. This one has been a heap of fun to draw - Coming in a few days!

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Dream bigger

Dream bigger

Here's a quick share of some artwork that didn’t quite make the grade for my last comic, Weeds of Earth.

The problem with drawing th...

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Weeds of Earth

Weeds of Earth

Exclusive new comic for you, Spacers. I’ll post some behind-the-scenes content soon too.

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Under the Ice

Under the Ice

New comic up! Honestly, I’ve been dying to do some stuff on one of the ice moons for ages. And this is just the tip of the iceberg (sorry!): I also want to visit Triton, Europa and, albeit the rather less icy, Io, in future as well.

Anyway,...

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Dumber Sock Buster

Dumber Sock Buster

Hey Spacers!

Huge shout out to new supporters- and existing ones. Your backing literally makes these comics possible.

As you may be aware, to make Bad Space more sustainable long term (hopefully), from now on, every second comic I do will be available only on Patreon.

This rule will be a little flexible as ...

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The Permi Faradox

The Permi Faradox

And now for something completely different.

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The chances of anything coming from Mars...

The chances of anything coming from Mars...

Boy that was the most fun I’ve had drawing one of these comics in a while! I re-read the book to make sure I didn’t miss anything- and even street-viewed the original locations.

I still remember the thrill of hearing the album when I was a ki...

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The Newer Prometheus

The Newer Prometheus

Whoop! There we go, the promised second part of my AI comic.

I’ve always found the idea of AI taking over the world faintly ridiculous: it’s classic othering. For one thing it’s just the same old fear of other tribes, other countries and aliens - who clearly want what we have!

But AI won’t be an intelligence built on...

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Mars Attacks!

Mars Attacks!

Hey Spacers

Just a quick update, so you don’t think I’ve fallen off the planet!

I’m in the process of drawing a new comic - and just this week started writing another one that I’m really excited about. It’s riffing off HG Wells’ War Of The Worlds, and I can’t stop thinking about it. I’ve been try...

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Hell and Back - video

Hey Spacers!

Thought you might enjoy the first look at this short film I’ve put together, based on one of my comics, Hell and Back.

It needs a little bit more clean up before I’ll share it with the world - but I’m pretty happy with ...

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The song of the tech bros

The song of the tech bros

As you know, if you read my posts, I've been working on a few projects lately, which is why my comics have been on the back burner for the past few months. However the debate around AI - or lack of one, really, got me thinking. And this is the result. &nb...

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Hot off the press

Hot off the press

UPDATE: ALL SOLD OUT, SORRY FOLKS!

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Hi Spacers - the book is here! I’m really pleased with how it came out.

Final price is $10 cheaper than I expected- thanks to it being small enough to send through regular post. This book includes six of my stories - and is 88 pages.

Postage tim...

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