Grandfather

Biggest news this month, my oldest daughter Chloe had a baby. Welcome to little Elias, congratulations to the parents, Mo and Clo. Mother and Baby are doing well. I suddenly feel about 90 years old and everyone is sarcastically shouting "Hey Grandad!" at me. Actually, local teenagers have been doing that for a while.

That's Eli on the left, on the right is my other Grandson, Ralph.

Had a great time at the London Film and Comiccon (LFCC) a few weeks ago. The table next to me was Rich Johnston from Bleeding Cool, who did a video interview thing with me that you can watch here. Another great year for LFCC, with a massive Comic Zone and some amazing comic artist and writers, thanks to the spectacular organisation of Tony Lee and his team. Rob Liefeld was there too.

Jim Templeton's poetry book, The Ramifications of Felix is selling well, for a poetry book. It only just hit Amazon, so looking forward to seeing what the reviews say. If you own a copy, please do review it, every review makes a difference to sales. If for some reason you don't yet own a copy, don't worry, you can buy it here now at a 25% discount!

Due to Chloe having Eli a few weeks earlier than planned, I can now give my friend John Watson a lift to the always excellent NICE comic convention in Bedford. Can't recommend NICE enough to anyone who has a love of comics and comic art, it's a proper convention with wall to wall comic artists and writers, none of this mucking about with actors and reality TV stars that you get at most 'comiccons' nowadays. Tickets are still available on the website.

** Update (4/9/19) I'm now giving a talk about Jack Kirby on the Sunday, so you can come along to NICE and learn about the King of Comics. The guest list for NICE is really quite excellent, see the flyer below, buy a ticket, come and say hi!