Rick Lundeen, my partner in crimes against fiction and the artistic genius behind “The Dark”, will be signing copies of The Dark at Graham Crackers in Downers Grove, Illinois.
This is a rare opportunity for fans of the book to meet up with the man who created the graphic novel’s unique look and who gave life to its disturbing creations.
Best of luck to Rick for the signing!

The good, good people of Waterstones will be letting me loose in their Cribbs Causeway store on April 24th at 1pm.
This is the first time I have signed in a “mainstream” book store as opposed to a specialist comic store or a convention; I’m really looking forward to introducing some non-comics fans to The Dark as well as meeting up with any comics fans who come by.
There are some details of the signing up on the Waterstone’s website and, of course, there is a Facebook event if you want to …

So, I might have been getting a little bit of stick/grief/sledging as it seems by beloved Toyota Prius has a few problems. Like switching itself off when I was on the motorway, like a dodgy accelerator, iffy brakes, and … oh … a worldwide recall.
This cannot be allowed to stand. My car is totally gangsta, and here is a video to prove it …

Many thanks to Dave at Waiting for the Trade (They like big books and they cannot lie) for featuring The Dark on the latest episode of the WFTT Podcast.
Dave will put a full review up on the website in due course, but for now I am more than happy to hear someone so exercised by the idea of Memetech and getting so engaged with the story. Hopefully Dave will be equally happy when he’s reached the second half and all of the secrets have been revealed.
Don’t take my word for …

Ed Kaye followed up his review of Issue #1 of The Dark by giving us his take on the whole story …
Not only has Chris Lynch created an incredibly interesting concept to use as the basis of this story, but he’s also created an incredibly unique plot … Rick Lundeen’s linework on this story has a very clean and smooth look to it, which is complimented by some really vibrant colouring …
The Dark is a highly original and inventive graphic novel, with an intriguing and involving plot that really keeps …

It’s that most vital of things … the home town signing! Chris will be Forbidden Planet, Cardiff, from 5pm to 6pm to sign copies of The Dark. Terror abounds as I face friends and family in my “professional” capacity as the mind behind the book, so any and all support is greatly appreciated!
Many thanks to the guys at Forbidden Planet for squeezing this into their busy signings schedule. If you are interested, please sign up for our Facebook Event so that they now how many people to expect. (Not that …

I will be appearing at Ace Comics in Richmond, along with Huw J and Harry Markos, to sign copies of The Dark on March 20th. Ace are already offering copies of The Dark at a discount price with free shipping via their website.
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The signing will run from 12:00 – 15:00, so hopefully I will have plenty of time to talk to everyone who comes in. Podcasters and bloggers are welcome to get in touch in advance to arrange interviews before, during, or after the session.
Other than for conventions, …

Software Development has a habit of throwing up the same problems again and again. Subtle variations abound, but I have always believed that with a few core programming techniques most problems can be solved. In an eighty/twenty world, only twenty percent of problems are interesting and only twenty percent of those require a truly original or innovative solution.
The trick is identifying the underlying problem, or design pattern, that you are dealing with and then applying your tried and tested algorithm. Of course, it helps a great deal if you can …

So, I finally succumbed to temptation and decided to trade in my Nokia XPress Music 5800 for an iPhone. When I bought the 5800 it was as the result of a detailed “pound for pound” comparison with the iPhone and, for my needs at the time, the 5800 came out on top. Was the fact that I didn’t have to change networks to get this phone dominant in my decision making? Not really, but it was certainly a factor.
Some months later however, I find myself buying an iPod Touch. I …

To celebrate the launch of “The Dark”, Markosia are producing a limited run of just 100 copies of the “Bristol Expo Special Edition”!
The official promotional text runs as follows:
To celebrate the launch of their new graphic novel, “The Dark”, Markosia are producing a special edition of the book exclusively for Bristol Expo visitors.
With a variant cover from series artist Rick Lundeen, there will be only one hundred of these individually signed and numbered editions available.
A great opportunity to read the graphic novel that critics are calling “highly original“, “a great, …

Fantastic news broke on Bleeding Cool yesterday with an announcement from Diamond that they are changing their policy on the much publicised, and much maligned, “minimum order threshhold”.
Implemented last year, the order threshold previous basically meant that Diamond had the right to cancel orders for any book that did not reach their minimum order values. Retailers who had ordered the book would not get it, nor would their customers, even if they had pre-ordered, and effectively the book would be dead.
This rule has been a bane for the small press. …