I have the first printing, and it's an absolute life saver. Anyone who wants to be a letterer of any form in comics and hasn't got it should be buying it already.

Look into Tiago Forte, building a second brain. It helped me a ton when I started to worry about similar.

In December I sent out a newsletter that said "2026 is going to be an insane year."

This month I've had two completely unexpected calls that have utterly changed my game plan for 2026 - for the better.

2020: I bet on myself.

2026: it's massively paying off.

Why aren't YOU betting on YOURSELF?

I did a little talky talk with @joelmeadows.bsky.social

If you get a chance, check out Richard Oakes ARTMAGIC with Sean McGhee - the latter did the music for my DODGE & TWIST full cast Audible :)

I love Mat Osman. A few years back he upgraded Tracy and me to VIP at one of Suede's gigs - I think it was one of the whole album ones. At the time I was on deadline, so spent the whole gig in the VIP bar writing...!!

Gutted I won't see you both this year. I'll have to book a super secret special LA trip later in the year just to do that :)

I’m such a fan I badgered poor Joe at Dynamite for a year for a chance of a Blofeld story. Never happened.

And Dan Boultwood and I did our own ‘kid James Bond’ in DANGER ACADEMY…

This is why I now have all my music on my servers and on DAP players. You need to own your music.

In 2021, my accountant suggested that I should put money into gold, as it'd go up more than ISAs etc. At the time it was about $1800 an oz.

A "financial expert" friend said they were talking BS.

I ignored them.

Today gold broke $5k an oz. And, I believe by EOY it'll be $10k.

It's not too late.

I won’t be at Gally this year.

Weirdly my brother was auditor for them last year and the same thing was being said back then...

In addition, this will be an AI bot that scrapes through upload after upload. Go into your dashboard and contact them directly, explaining you'll change the cover.

Cover your backs.

As someone who deals with them daily, create a specific cover for them, with a big sticker over the heart (which is the violation) as it's blood and an organ, saying CENSORED. Even if it's over 60%. Upload once more, and in the book point out this is an exclusive edition.

Make it a selling point.

Well this is a nice way to end the year - right now, HIS DEAD MAN'S HAND is 12 in the Amazon "British Detectives" charts, and apparently is a Richard Osman sandwich!

mybook.to/hisdeadmanshand

There is no secret shortcut to success in comics, there's just the work. Anyone who tells you otherwise is trying to sell you something.

Tuesday Tip 12/30

I’m torn between “The Spy Who Hugged Me” and “Lawnraker”

What say you, @heavyspoilers.bsky.social?

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar, when I met you.

Picked this up last week!!! I mean, not the same guy but connected...

Fuck. Mines the Blues Brothers…

Don’t forget to preorder Medieval #3 for the holidays!

Getting that right would need Screenrant to be competent news people rather than click farm junk that AI-dump out repeated paragraphs in different ways do the word count ;)

Buy it!!! It has everything I did!!!

Their bread and butter is actors, but just because they don't advertise them doesn't mean they're there. We had over a hundred creators at LFCC last Summer.

MCM and LFCC have entire comic zones and villages filled with comic creators. I think you mean most of the Monopoly events.

mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one

Air Bud.

True but sometimes Funkos are the cost to gain budget to bring comic guests in.

SOLD.

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