My writing muse has vanished leaving quite a few half-written blog posts sitting on my hard drive, so here goes in point form:
Had a lovely evening at Matt and Anna’s in Moseley on Saturday, which was needed as I was getting a little stir crazy. Matt has a mad collection of undergroundy French comics (or Bandes-Dessines) and it was something of a Hicksville moment being surrounded by loads of comics I’d never seen before. Was quite taken by the publisher Freon along with Flblb who published two of Matt’s books. Strange that a Texan cartoonist living in England has only been published in French. But there you go.
Last week I was back at the NEC for a second job. I think I might be spending a lot of time there over the next few months. However, tomorrow I’m working for Birmingham City Council Environmental Services which means I’m on the bins! Well, I’m probably street cleaning but that’s just as cool! Hopefully I’ll be driving around in one of those little invalid carriages with big brushes ploughing through obstinate commoners as they wait for their bus. But as ever I will have no idea exactly what I’m doing until I’m doing it.
Finally got in touch, in a roundabout way, with an old Uni mate on Friday – told him to Google me for my email so if you’re reading this James…
And that’s about it.