Bristol Comic Expo Panel: “Signs and Portents”

The audio recording of my Bristol Comic Expo panel, Signs and Portents“, is now available from the Sidekick Cast website, iTunes, and anywhere where good podcasts can be found.

Before I write anything about this panel, I want to send out a huge thanks to both the boys from Sidekick Cast and to everyone who turned up to make the panel a success. We had some great questions, an incredible game of Secrets and Lies, and the whole process was made significantly less nerve racking and markedly more awesome by having a room full of friendly faces.

Gushing over.

If you missed the panel, other than a potted history of The Dark and MWM, some shameless plugging (including a new personal best for me), and some light hearted ribbing of a certain missing monkey, you probably missed me talking about codes, fiction, stories inside stories, fringe science, how thinly read I really am, and trying to answer some questions from people who had clearly thought about them beforehand. The swines. (Barry Nugent, I’m looking at you).

We had a lot of positive feedback about the panel throughout the show, so if you did miss it and would like to catch up, download the “Signs and Portents” podcast today.

Badges? We don’t need to stinking badges! (Well, actually, we do)

DarkLogoFor anyone wondering what the mysterious “merchandise” that I’ve been alluding to on Twitter is, it’s badges. 100 lovely, 25mm badges, lovingly made by my new best friends at Badge Planet.

If you want to get hold of one, you need to track me down with your copy of The Dark for signing or perhaps try asking one of “The Darkettes”.

Yes, I have Darkettes.

I don’t think you can get too excited about the Bristol Comic Con, can you?

First shots of The Dark on PSP

The Dark went live on the Playstation Digital Comics network last week and my good friend Lee was kind enough to tweet me these shots of the comic up and running on his PSP!

I heard from Harry at Markosia that the book has been doing very well indeed in terms of downloads and the guys at Sony have tweeted me recently to say there has been a lot of positive fan feedback. Great news!

If you’ve got a PSP and you have downloaded the book, I’d love to know what you think.

The Dark featured on the Sony Digital Comics Blog

The Dark has pride of place today on Sony’s Digital Comics Blog.

Click here to read their article.

I’m still thrilled not only to see The Dark on this platform, but also with all the support that Sony are showing the book since signing us up exclusively. If you have a PSP and have downloaded the book(s), we’d love to hear from you!

Omnicomic Preview “The Dark”

Omnicomic give us their take on the coded messages hidden throughout “The Dark” today …

See what they did there? They’ve “encoded” secrets into the comic that will give the reader the chance to solve the mystery before Abbot himself can figure it all out. Definitely not a conventional means of relating to the reader but I’m definitely digging it. I mean, how often do even books engage you on this level?

Preview pages etc. can be found at Omnicomic.