I will be speaking at an online seminar organised by the University of Limerick and the University of Luxembourg alongside Aodhán Morris, Aliénor Gandanger, Rachel Beck, Richard Conyngham and Xian Jee. We'll discuss the ways in which our work interrogates history and historiography, and how comics can be used as a tool to educate the public about history. Pretty rad nerdy stuff! If you are curious about my particular approach to my histfic webcomics and my author footnotes, this is for you!

The seminar is on November 15 (Friday), 11 am to 1 pm Ireland time. Click the link here to access the talk when Friday comes!

I recently sprung on a Steamdeck after months of thinking about it, so I was mentally assembling a list of not-on-Apple-or-Switch games that I wanted to get (Jusant, Sable, Elden Ring...). The Egypt and Greek editions of Assassins Creed happened to be among the entries, and I went on to its subreddit to reconfirm my future intent to play the games. Then, of course, expectedly, I stumbled upon a comment that made me form a discourse in my head.

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Thoughts on liking body horror in media - a creative fascination I rarely speak about openly, even though it's hinted across most of my work. Obvious trigger warning since I talk about the insides of bodies coming out. There's some media reccs in here if you are interested in this sort of thing.

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A small little romp on creative rest.

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This is the second stage following the Onion Method: An Outlining Method for Graphic Novels. You got the onion...now how are you going to present it? This post will talk you through how I craft the art direction of a graphic novel... weaving the thematic and character motivations established earlier in the outline into its final, ultimate mode of language: the visuals.

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Thoughts on the in-progress art direction for my Alexander the Great graphic novel/comic.

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TWIDI will celebrate its 10th birthday in March. A few months after, it'll be callupish's 16th birthday. That's how long these two passion projects have been with me. Currently, both of them are on the backburner. There's a thought loitering in my head for the past two years. The thought of how my relationship with art has changed since it became a career. Don't get me wrong. I'm still able to find the love and joy that fuel my art-making. So far I've kept as true as possible to what speaks to me most, as a young adult and an artist. But going professional has made it clear to me how important it is to my soul to maintain that integrity, and to keep it from being swallowed by jadedness and cynicism. And there's been a lot of those shadows lurking at the edges of the last two years (though I'd argue they existed some time before 2016). (more…)

One of the guiding principles of my storytelling is empathy – empathy as both the creative factor and the takeaway. It's a hot topic in publishing nowadays: everyone talks about how books are key to helping one understand or see others in this world, how one can see the other is just "a person like them". This is all very important and a goal worth pursuing, and I do see it as part of my responsibility as a writer. Yet I think I operate from a different conception of what empathy is, as a writer and reader. This is what today's post is about. (more…)