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I'm the guest on the latest episode of books podcast Backlisted . Keen to choose a book that was a formative influence and by an author ...

I read this fun, cutesy manga to check it was suitable for the nine year-old Lady Vader. It’s like visiting the inside of her brain. Riko is...

This is fantastic - the moving, funny, emotional tale of teenage Valentina negotiating loss and love. The Dr bought it for me as a Valentin...

The super new issue of Doctor Who and the Star Beast Magazine is out tomorrow and is largely devoted to the imminent new episodes of TV Doc...

The new issue of Doctor Who Magazine is out today. In "Quick Draw", I spoke to storyboard artist John Erasmus about his working r...

The new issue of Doctor Who Magazine features my interview with Devante Fleming, one of the floor runners currently working on Doctor Who ....

A little over four years ago, I posted about A Game Without Rules , the second volume in the Geis trilogy of graphic novels written and illu...

My Mum recently asked how many books I've written, and I realised that I didn't know. That then led to a conversation with my boss J...

It's 30-odd years since I first read Akira , borrowing each instalment of the beautiful, full-colour run produced by Epic Comics that a ...

"Somehow, Stan always managed to present himself as a modest egomaniac - an art in itself." (p. 168) These words, from ex-Marvel w...

After I read all* of Tintin last year, a kind friend sent me this excellent, comprehensive companion, full of details about the writing of ...

The new issue of Doctor Who Magazine includes my feature on the role of David Whitaker in developing early Dalek mythology and helping to m...

I’m struggling a bit with prose for grown-ups, so over the last month worked my way through The Adventures of Tintin , an eight-volume box-s...

After my post on Kingdom Come , a shrewd friend recommended me Alex Ross's earlier work, Marvels , originally published as a four-par...

I'm struggling a bit with reading at the moment - one day last week I started four different books and couldn't hold my concentra...

This thrilling, 12-part comic is a journey through a High Fantasy landscape sometime after a terrible war. The surviving people and creat...

Reign of the Robots , the Dan Dare story by Frank Hampson for Eagle comic that I adapted for audio, will be broadcast on Radio 4 Extra late...

My masters at BBC Books tweeted that they have received a first copy of Doctor Who - The Target Storybook : Artist Anthony Dry then p...

In the midst of yesterday's deluge, a brave postman swam our street to deliver Life Drawing: A Life Under Lights , the autobiography ...

As well as handing out copies of our new Bibbly-Bob comic , I bought a bunch of things from the stalls at last weekend's South London C...