Mad old Charles Fort used to say ‘It’s Steam Engines when it’s Steam Engines time.’ Things make themselves available to you when you’re ready for them. For me, I read Lovecraft at the time a young man should. This is the story of how a bad dream refused to come true.
Christian Read & Andrew Richardson [...]

We can send people to the moon.
We can see what’s happening on Mars.
Yet we have this enormous creature right here on earth that, even with all of our incredible technology, we are yet to see alive in its natural habitat.
It’s like living right next to a myth.
I love colossal squids because of what they represent; [...]

I’d had this idea knocking around my head, something about brothers (or sisters) containing a devastating power within them. Kind of like a doomsday device that is triggered by the death of one or the other of them. Being asked to contribute to the Flinch anthology gave me the chance to explore the idea a [...]

Being approached to create something for this collection was an amazing incentive to better and further myself. I tend to work better when there is reason behind my work, and this opportunity has given me a small space through which I can say something personal about people.
The ‘Way Out’ comic represents my first step into [...]

These are part of a series of images vaguely inspired by nineteenth century conduct books, but really just elaborations of free-floating doodles from my sketchbooks – especially those I can never properly explain.
Shaun Tan presents Moral Lessons — preview this story

A lifelong fan of comic books and the graphic novel form, I’m delighted to have “The Daemon Street Ghost-Trap” given such a faithful and classy treatment by Skye Ogden.
I’ve always been interested in exploring and re-working the elements of the traditional ghost story, and “The Daemon Street Ghost-Trap” was an early attempt to do just [...]

The feeling one gets on finally publishing their first book is a mixture of relief and pride. I recommend it to anyone. If you have the talent, then do it. Finish your book, print off a few copies, and start selling them through your website, local stores, conventions and friends. Believe me, you’ll wonder why [...]

When the system has wrongly put you behind bars for  most of your life, what is it that keeps you going? What can you look forward to?

Skye Ogden and Terry Dowling deliver the graphic novel adaptation of Terry’s acclaimed short story,  “The Daemon Street Ghost Trap”.

© Terry Dowling & Skye Ogden