I told you previously I was about to work on our second Children’s book, which is entitled ‘Desmond is a Robot’, but I never told you how I got on.

Brilliantly.

The premise of the book is pictured above - that’s the first page of the book. Desmond begins in somewhat of a pickle as he is stuck being a Robot - it might just be that not every aspect of being a Robot is as good as it sounds at first, and this Robot seems to be very alone. Until, that is, his friend Mary arrives to help him be a good robot. Everything is going swimmingly, until something goes terribly wrong… UH OH!

Told in thirteen pages, similar in style to the one pictured above, this book is the other best kids book ever.

We think maybe it would be good to try to get this book published alongside our other book (also thirteen pages in a similar style) so you have the two best kid’s books ever in the one volume!

Anyone who has any tips about approaching agents, or any other useful information or feedback, as always please leave a comment… thanks!

It’s been a while since I shared anything with you about my friend Bob Byrne of Clamnuts. Bob has a very popular blog over on his comics website Clamnuts.com. Bob is quickly becoming the cornerstone of the Irish Comics scene, and it’s no wonder - he’s a one man Comics Industry all in himself.

The degenerate thing is just jealousy.

In case you have the misfortune to not be subscribed to his blog, here is a small selection of things you should be aware of:

• Bob has landed a spot in 2000AD. In case you don’t know that makes him the envy of everyone in the world.
• Bob’s working on his silent masterpiece Mr. Amperduke and has a following of fans eagerly awaiting it.
• Bob produces a free pint sized comic called ‘The Shiznit’. It is available for free download in PDF form on his site.
• Bob has published a wonderful children’s book called ‘Robots Don’t Cry’ and you can buy it from O’Briens.
• Bob’s blog is full of wonderful gems like his essay on marbles, the time shopping for couscous nearly turned him into a crazed killer and the poignant tale of a harrowing break up.

Finally Bob has recently begun sharing some of his sketches with us through the magic of screen capture - here he is drawing two little Hitlers…

Edward Norton is to play the Incredible Hulk in Louis Leterrier’s new version, The Incredible Hulk.

I’m not a big Hulk fan but still there’s something about this casting that doesn’t sit right with me. Norton doesn’t seem like the right choice and The Incredible Hulk doesn’t seem like the right project for Norton. I have a feeling it’ll go the same way as Nicholas Cage’s Superman project a few years back.

Leterrier’s previous directorial outings were both Transporter movies and Unleashed. While I didn’t hate The Transporter and I haven’t seen his other work, his track record doesn’t fill me with hope that this will be better than Ang Lee’s effort.

El Collage is the illustrative blog of one Mauricio Planel Rossiello, based in Brazil.

The above image is wonderfully titled ‘Dude, these humanbeings are great, it´s a pitty they last for a short time.’

While Mauricio’s illustrations are (as the title of his blog might suggest) all collage works, he mixes up the style from piece to piece and so it’s most certainly worth visiting his site and having a look through the archives.

Everybody is talking about the CGI effects in ‘300‘, and meanwhile the incredible feat of producing ‘Shooter‘ is passing practically under the radar.

The producers of Shooter located a film originally shot in 1982, which had the misfortune to languish in post production for three years when ‘Rambo: First Blood Part II’ came out and made the 1982 film obsolete before it had ever been released.

Having sourced their base stock, the producers of Shooter then went about the extremely difficult task of using CGI to transpose Mark Wahlberg’s face over that of the original, unknown, eighties actor and electronically modifying the voice to sound like that of Wahlberg’s

Some extra footage was shot, mostly in the FBI offices to include current actors, and further CGI was used to age original actors in the eighties film, Danny Glover and Ned Beatty.

I mean, that’s the only possible explanation for this film.