My friend Michael Levy was at a cocktail party this weekend. His host: none other than Stan Lee. (There they are below.) I’ve never been gi...

In the Best.Episode.Ever of The Simpsons , the Comic Book Guy is asked what right he has to complain about Itchy & Scratchy . “As a loya...

On the off-chance you haven't yet noticed, over on the main Mirabilis site the Fellows of the Royal Mythological Society are answering...

Exposition – spoon-feeding your reader with the facts they must know to make sense of the story – is the red-headed stepchild of every write...

I’ll be finishing up the script for the Winter book in the next few days, but I’m not going to be idle. Among the projects clamouring for a...

The posts over on Garen Ewing’s blog and Sarah McIntyre's blog about the Royal Academy's Kuniyoshi exhibition (till June 7, don...

Before Zak Snyder’s movie boosted its sales into the stratosphere, Watchmen had been simmering away in the UK at an average of about 10,000...