When people think about superstar comic creators, they often think about writers who can keep a book going just off their name alone. However, even major writers like J. Michael Straczynski and Grant Morrison can’t always keep a comic going. DC Comics history has plenty of comics by famous writers that were canceled even while […]
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘The Courtship of Mr Lyon’, which was originally published in the British version of Vogue magazine, is a 1979 short story by Angela Carter (1940-92). The story was later collected in Carter’s 1979 book The Bloody Chamber . Like most of the stories in The Bloody Chamber , ‘The […]
Before my debut novel, All-Night Pharmacy , was even a twinkle in my eye, I was a poet. Sometimes I wrote short stories, rarely longer than 2,500 words. I approached everything I wrote like I was robbing a bank. Get in and get out. Who doesn’t love a tight little banger? , I assured myself. […]
