Recently I’ve started playing a handful of point and click horror games, mainly because I do a lot of travelling and at the end of…
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Jonathan Jones wrote an article in The Guardian in which he stated that he had never read Terry Pratchett and had no intention of doing…
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Comics again, this time with a couple of wonderful graphic novels that tackle similar mathematical themes but in very different ways. Logicomix: An Epic Search…
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I came across the wonderful Fantastic Travel Destination posters of Autun Purser at Dysprosium and immediately bought the complete set of cards and a print…
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Go here for my review of Jim Burns’ latest book The Art of Jim Burns: Hyperluminal. Can you talk us through one of your paintings…
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For me the golden age of science fiction and fantasy paperback illustration in the UK spanned the 70s and 80s. While 60s covers often favoured…
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Wandering through Kate Bush’s imagination a couple of weeks ago made me think of a peculiarly English brand of dark fantasy that started in the…
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I’d already planned on doing an article on the fantasy artist Patrick Woodroffe when the news came in that he’d passed away and so, sadly,…
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This is the first in a series of posts looking at the Grotesque in literature and art. It’s a subject that’s fascinated me for years…
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I work in education, advising ministries throughout the world on how to best use technology in the classroom. For most the process is one of…
Leave a CommentLike a moth to the flame I find myself once again drawn into the strange world of the Shakespeare authorship question, though this time it’s…
1 CommentFlatland 2: Sphereland is the sequel to the movie Flatland which I mentioned in a blog post last year. It’s a charming 36 minute animated…
Leave a CommentEmily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights is a really odd book. On the surface it’s the first bodice-ripper – a passionate tale of doomed love set among…
6 CommentsFrom the mid-nineteenth century onwards British painting bore little resemblance to its European counterpart. While the French Impressionists forged ahead with their bold experiments in…
1 CommentFollowing on with the Victorians and Dinosaurs theme, one of the strangest science fiction stories I’ve ever come across is The Monster of Lake LaMetrie…
1 CommentOn my last trip up to Yorkshire I found one of my favourite childhood books, Life Before Man, by Zdenek Burian (pictures) and Zdenek V.…
10 CommentsA belated Happy New Year to everyone. This post is a bit later than I anticipated because I’ve spent the weeks after Xmas finishing the…
5 CommentsA little while ago I wrote about the Eagle Comic in the early 1960s. The Captain was a similar magazine from the beginning of the…
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