As previously mentioned I was exhibiting at the MCM Expo with Marc Ellerby and I was doing Little Adam style portraits for a mere £5 a pop. I got through quite a lot (7 in a row during the hottest, sweatiest part of Saturday) and tried to take photos of them all on my terrible phone camera. I’ve collected them all in a Flickr set for you to see. Thanks to everyone who bought one.

I haven’t decided if I’m doing these again at Thought Bubble, so if you’re interested let me know. I might even consider doing them online.

Introducing Joe List, a man famous for scribbling on newspaper supplements. He debuted his first and exceedingly accomplished comic book Freak Leap at BICS this year and the MCC table was proud to have him. His youthful enthusiasm for robots who can play the drums helped carry my weary bones through the frazzling experience of being hungover at a comic show on a Sunday morning. God bless you Joe List, God bloody bless you.

The comic section of the show is really growing bigger and better each time thanks to the hard work of Emma Vieceli and Anna Petterson. Other creators attending include Ben Templesmith, Frazer Irving, Jock, David Lafuente, Bryan Gorman Talbot, Sarah McIntyre, Paul Duffield, Garen Ewing, Julia Scheele, Lizz Lunney, Joe Decie and literally loads more. And Jamie McKelvie and Kieron Gillen. Check the MCM Expo site for more info on all the talks and signings going on and for ticket info and stuff.

So, if you’re near London and you can brave the hordes of Cosplayers, come by and get a Little YOU sketch. It would be great to see you there.

I think that you, my readers, have probably seen me topless more than any of my girlfriends. Sigh.

The suspense gripping the Nation is over! My new flatmate is finally revealed! And it’s none other than Chris Doherty!

I’ve mentioned Chris and his comics many times before both here and on my blog. His series Video Nasties is one of my favourite self published comics ever, and next year it will be released as a graphic novel from Blank Slate! He is currently putting me to shame with the amount of pages he has drawn since he moved in. Chris has appeared once before in The Everyday, waaaaay back in #14 from November 2006 but I’m sure he’ll be in quite a few more after this.

And in case you were wondering…

I will be behind the bright red Manchester Comix Collective table which I’ve helped organise to showcase some of the finest self published comics from the city’s ever expanding comics scene. Just look at the wonders on offer on this subtle poster I have made. I think you’ll find they’re all brilliant.

BICS will be at Thinktank, Millennium Point, Curzon Street, Birmingham, B4 7XG both Saturday and Sunday. There’s a ton of talks, panels and screenings going on and big name guests all over the place. More info about exhibitors and ticket deals at the BICS site.

It should be a fun weekend and I hope to see you there.

What is happening when that happens? Answers on a postcard please.

Oh, and that’s a Lizz Lunney Dinosaur t-shirt I’m wearing.

As you can work out by the date on this comic, Chris Madden has moved out by now. My “long suffering housemate” has appeared in 16 Everydays including this one. He may pop up again if he comes to visit or when I abuse his hospitality during next summer’s Edinburgh Festival but for now it is goodbye. I’ll miss the guy with whom I watched every episode of The Shield and Battlestar Galactica but I shall miss the massive widescreen plasma TV with surround sound that we watched it on that little bit more. Goodbye sweet TV!

For fans of Chris Madden, his presence remains on the internet in the form of the movie podcast he does, with another Chris, called Casta la Vista. It’s up to it’s third episode so far and isn’t half bad. Do check it out.

And we’re back to good old black and white comics in which I am topless. It’s been too long.

This was from that week when the entire country took a week off work and played on the Xbox all day. Remember? How our fragile economy survived I will never know. I was not lucky enough to contract the flu of pigs (because I am invunerable) and instead worked from home to the sound from the front room of cars zooming about and then crashing into other cars.

(This post would have been topical had I actually written it back in July).