Writer for Animation, Film, Television, Books, Comics and Audio
Monday night saw me crammed into the Live Theatre in Newcastle for the launch of Jesting About, a new BBC initiative to find new comedy talent in the North East. The event was supported by no less than Bob Mortimer, and several key producers and commissioners from the Beeb. It sounds like a really interesting …
When I’m not animating, or running a business, I like to write. Its a great way for me to unwind from the stresses of the day and let my brain explore other creative avenues. So far I’ve written a sitcom for radio, (which was commissioned by Radio 4, but didn’t quite get as far as …
When I first set up my animation studio, Qurios Entertainment, back in 2002, I had a lot of help and support from the enterprise team from Hartlepool Council and from Business Link (one of the region’s business support agencies). They were both very proactive and supportive, especially Mick Emerson and Andrea Miles (then working for …
After two lovely weeks away I’m back in the studio, chained to the desk on a beautiful day, watching the last embers of summer fade away. Why can’t the weather work weekends? I’ve had a rather enjoyable start back, drawing with pencil and paper like they did in the olde days. I’m working on a …
Here’s a newspaper story from August 2006 from my local paper, the Hartlepool Mail. This was a campaign to support the bid for Grand Central Railway to have a direct train link from Hartlepool to London. As you can read in the article, getting to London was often a time-consuming and difficult journey, fraught with …
A quote from Kim Stanley Robinson’s brilliant Red Mars is as good a way as any to begin a new blog. Here we are indeed, but what’s it all about? Why am I starting a blog when the blogosphere as a whole is in something of a decline. We have Twitter, what am I thinking? …