January 2, 2024

The Helsinki Bus Theory

How long does it take before I start feeling like the work I’m making is distinctly mine?

December 12, 2023

Circuit breaking

How much should you stick with what you know, and what people expect, versus playing and experimenting with new ideas and new ways of making?

November 28, 2023

Is there life on the page?

In a world awash with illustration and art theory, is there a better way to judge whether a drawing is any good?

October 3, 2023

A broken streak

Are unbroken writing streaks really that good for me? What if I broke the cardinal rule – write every week – to do something different?

September 12, 2023

Just the drawing

When the goalposts for what success looks like keep moving (either of my own doing or of the culture’s), then what’s succesful anymore?

August 8, 2023

Cinema and books

When you work in books, people assume you’re a book person. But, what happens when that’s not true? What if, for you, it was cinema?