Posts under ‘books’

I promised more book recommendations, so here are a couple that I'm recommending even though I haven't read them (yet) myself!

Last week there was a launch party for David B's Black Paths, at Clerkenwell Tales, a lovely little bookshop in Exmouth Market….

I really ought to plug stuff on here more often. Not my stuff — other peoples' stuff. I know so many people who make cool stuff, and I'm a fan of so many people who make cool stuff that I really ought to tell more people about the cool stuff. So here's a post about some cool stuff, namely one of my favourite comics series of all time….

Last night my friend Viv Schwarz had a launch party with Alexis Deacon to celebrate their new children's book A Place To Call Home. They had the party….

A little while ago, I interviewed comics artist Garen Ewing about his adventure series The Rainbow Orchid. We had a very interesting chat about book illustrators from the so-called Golden Age, Ukiyo-e prints, animation, computer games and 1970s comics. Here is the interview for your edification, and I hope you enjoy it as much as [...]

I've been getting quite interested in sewers and tunnels this year. First there was the visit in March to the Thames Tunnels (which I wrote about here). A week later I went on a guided walk as part of Obscura Day 2010, following the route of the Fleet River from Kentish Town all the way [...]

The other comics event of the week was anything but lowkey. MCM EXpo is a twice-yearly event in the Docklands, full of cosplayers and hyperactive teenagers, which I wouldn't normally consider going to, were it not for the fact that it's also full of fabulous comics folk and offers up a great opportunity for me [...]

One of the most frustrating things about my hard drive failing last year was that I lost all of the work I'd been doing in BookSmart, the software used to make books on Blurb. Well, yesterday I took advantage of the crappy weather to get started on a new one. I didn't expect to finish [...]

We like a lot of stuff here at Mondo Towers, and today I added a sidebar widget from Amazon, with links to books and films I recommend. In case you're reading this via the feed; it looks like this: The only trouble is that it seems to make the page a little slow in loading, [...]

En route from The Glasshouse to (see previous post) to meet friends near London Bridge, I wandered past the Old Operating Theatre and Herb Garret. I usually give museums a miss during Open House by dint of the fact that they're accessible at other times, but I had some time to kill and it's been [...]

Sarah's posted the mega-long list of children's books she used in her talk at last weekend's Caption: loads of great-looking books for you to check out. Just browsing through those will keep you occupied for hours. This post on Roald Dahl covers popped up in Paul K's shared GR items last week, and today I [...]