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Driven By The Muse
Matriarchy versus Patriarchy (9). A leading British comic creator once angrily attacked me for writing political comics like Third World War. He said…
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Nemesis The Warlock: Deadlock The Enigmass Variations
The Princess of the Silver Elves suggests Love is the solution. Then adds reprovingly, ‘I mean Pure Love’.
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Battle Comic's 50th Anniversary
Warlord was an incredible and justified success for D.C. Thomson’s and that’s what led IPC to commission John Wagner and I to create Battle.
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The Dark Humour of the Muse
Matriarchy versus Patriarchy (8). At first I couldn’t understand why women would want to interfere with an eight-year-old boy. Then it slowly dawned on…
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'No one provokes me with impunity'
The motto is ingrained into the hearts of every one of the Scottish Ragtime soldiers. But just to be sure, on such important missions as a trench raid…
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Nemesis The Warlock: Deadlock The Colour Stories
Previously, the heroes were invariably male, white, British, had no wives or families and stood firmly for the establishment.
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February 2025

'Not so quiet on the Western Front'
I wanted to show the Ragtime Soldiers as they really were. Often they were teenagers – crazy about Ragtime, the cool music of its day.
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'This is church business!'
Matriarchy versus Patriarchy (7). “The war on sexuality under the Christian hierarchy was not a war on masculine sexuality; it was a war on everything…
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Nemesis The Warlock: The Army of Liberation & The Galactic Hitchhiker
I was a little uneasy by the time the aircraft landed in Tehran. I’d brought along a copy of Requiem Vampire Knight and actually ‘censored’ the book…
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The Power of the Muse
Matriarchy versus Patriarchy (6). I have a dislike of drugs, which is unusual for a sixties generation boomer.
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Nemesis The Warlock: The Accountant closes in
I found myself pondering about Purity. This is where comics can come unstuck.
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Eyes Wide Open
Matriarchy versus Patriarchy (5)
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