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Today I’m going to veer away from the usual topics of games and talk a little bit about graphic novels. Comics. Whatever you want to call them. As I am sure most of you probably know (because lets face it you all know me in real life and I’m sure some of you only read this out of obligation) I am a librarian – yes, I do have a (bit of a) beard, no I don’t have leather patches on my elbows and as part of my duties I am expected to get involved in various book awards. The Stan

Hey there everyone. It has been a while. Apologies for that (I often seem to be starting posts by apologising) but this time I have a (relatively) good reason. I haven’t been playing much, watching much or reading much of late. I haven’t been able to focus on any one game/show and although I am focusing on one book, I haven’t had as much time to read as I’d like. At the moment I am on a train heading for Manchester (mad fer it etc..) so figured this was a good time to write a

This is going to be a strange post. I am currently reading Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Aloud. To my girlfriend Claire. What?  hear you ask… why would you do that? Well, apart from being the best boyfriend in the world I’ll let Claire’s words why… Why are we reading the book? a) I like stories. b) I like being read stories. c) Matt is constantly sharing sci fi and computer games (Not always successfully) with me in a gradual drip feed way and we’ve re

Its 8.00am and I’m on a bus. Yes, a bus. It’s half full of students from Winifred Holtby, and will soon be full (after a pickup at Kelvin Hall School). We are off on a trip to Sheffield for the Excelsior Awards, a national comic book award for young people. The kids get to vote from a shortlist and today we find out the winner. It’s been a year already since my last post about the award, and again I’m blogging it. This time however, I’m using the time on the bus to make sure