@nialls8
Writer of fantasy, currently editing a manuscript that was far too long and is growing shorter by the day (draft 5). Lover of all things comics and books. Spent the 80s and 90s writing/recording songs and working in the NHS. Good times.
The crazy stuff this Yew tree has seen. Already an elder statestree by the time of the Norman Conquest. Born before King Alfred burned the cakes, before Bede wrote his Ecclesiastical History Of The English People. Oh, to listen to its gnarly anecdotes and its withering opinions on today's world.
A Folio edition of Pigs I Have Known (1958) by Sacha Carnegie
I try my hardest to stop buying books but sometimes it is just too difficult.
The publishing industry's lack of confidence in authors and its own ability to create careers for them is pathetic and, in the end, self-defeating.
Look: you can grade politicians on a curve.
Also: I’m reminded of one of the principal reasons I think Boris Johnson is a useless, arrogant bastard.
Tatjana Wood colors. Swamp Thing 34.
Tatjana Wood colors. Swamp Thing 34.
Since hearing of Tatjana Wood's death, a legend in our field, I've been drawn to pouring over some of her stellar work as a comic colorist.
Exquisite storytelling through colour. Very drawn to and molded by that decision making.
I lived for a time in Darmstadt where she was born funnily too.
Look, folks--I don't know what to tell you. There's no justification for bigotry and threats against creators--or guess what, anyone! And that includes when something happens in a comic book.
D-Day for Degaton !
Sunset from Uley Bury hillfort, in Gloucestershire, in September, looking in the direction of the Severn Estuary.
FUCKLOADS of writing. Some of it free, the rest of it very inexpensive to read. Plus, the occasional vaguely attractive photograph... www.tom-cox.com
Make any comment about the evil of AI on the internet and someone will inevitably soon come along and reply, "Ah, but you can't halt progress." But there were lots of things people described as "progress" in the past, too. Asbestos, for example. www.tom-cox.com/in-the-villa...
Deckchairs, meet Titanic.
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When I put this on Substack Notes a couple of years ago someone told me I'd made an error and the photograph was not of a horse. I said it was a joke and I was in truth entirely aware that The Who's singer Roger Daltrey is not a horse.
A little love to Maid of Might on this International Women's Day! #Supergirl #comics #comicbooks #dccomics #InternationalWomensDay #WomensDay #DCU #WomanOfTomorrow @jamesgunn.bsky.social @tomking.bsky.social
Iron Man #53. In a mystic giant fight. Iron Man's fighting fury sparked by an act of love defeats Rahne's man rage powers. Raga's mystic master abandons him and his rage creates a landslide than buries him in a karmic ending.
The cover of Marvel comic 'Journey Into Mystery' #12 featuring a struggling author mocking the idea that the house he is in is haunted unaware that a vampire is creeping up behind him.
JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #12 (1974) - Another repackaging of old mystery comics with a new cover (by Lieber and Giacoia). There's some pretty good shorts in this one including a cyclical Lee-Ditko tale from AMAZING FANTASY.
The crooked spire of St Mary And All Saints Church, Chesterfield: a regular, formative sight in my childhood which probably a certain way towards explaining why I am the way I am.
Lots of varying folkloric explanations exist for the crooked spire on this church in Chesterfield, Derbyshire. My favourite is that the Devil had a new horseshoe fitted to his hoof by a clumsy blacksmith who put a nail into his skin, causing him to leap up in pain and knock the spire out of place.
One of the best compliments I've had about my recent books is "They absolutely do my fucking head in, but in the best way possible" because that means someone who is reading them is having pretty much the same experience I'm having writing them.
My favourite Barry Cryer story is his account of Nicholas Parsons asking Ross Noble who his favourite comedian was. "Richard Pryor" Noble replied, "Genius! So sad he set himself on fire while freebasing crack cocaine".
Parsons, visibly upset, asked Barry later: "did you hear about Richard Briers?"
NHS official pushed to add patient data to Palantir platform whilst also advising company
A lobbyist who worked directly for Peter Mandelson, on the Palantir board, and on the board of *four* NHS trusts.
Lobbying the NHS to hand over even more patient data to Palantir.
This absolutely stinks. Get Palantir out of the NHS. Sign my petition:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
Barbara Newhall Follett (1914-1939?) was an American child prodigy. Her first novel, The House Without Windows, was published in 1927, when she was only 12. Her second novel was a betseller when she was 14. In December 1939, aged 25, she disappeared. She has never been found. #CelebratingWomen
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A thing I love about mild days in early spring is when you go out in the garden & start doing a few jobs & your cat comes up to you & says "AT LAST! You finally decided it was time to live in the proper sense. I've been waiting around wondering when it would happen. Ok, now let me show you around."
I caught long winter and chicken around 700-800, I think, but then it was 1400, as you said, before it starts to make sense.
Quite incredible video.
In memory of Tatjana Wood.
"The Secret Origin Of Two-Face -- Double Take!" by Jack C. Harris, Ed Davis, Joe Rubinstein, Tatjana Wood, and Paul Levitz.
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Me in December 1995 in my parents’ living room in Nottinghamshire with my nan, wearing some cheap slippers and a t-shirt advertising Kim Deal’s lo-fi post-Breeders band The Amps. Yes, my legs are this long, but they are balanced out by the fact that my torso measures only 1.7 inches from top to bottom.
I worked fucking hard on the writing of this piece & just as hard on the editing but I feel it was worth it. It’s about my life in 1995, my recent autoimmune diagnosis, transport, time, a great Norwegian film and many other things. I hope 2 or 3 of you might read it: www.tom-cox.com/an-in-depth-...
An absolutely splendid depiction of Superman by Chris Weston.
Norm Breyfogle was one of the very best ❤️
