Here’s something I’m sure we’d all like to see– an Ada Lovelace documentary! In order to afford the visual effects necessary for the action-packed Salamander People sequence (addendum: JOKE), the filmmakers are undertaking a spot of the old fund-raising, for which your help is needed– no, they don’t need you to throw cash at them, [...]

Whooo! The Amaaaaazing Steampunk Exhibit at the Museum of the History of Science is now open! Behold (good thing I went for the 600dpi..): There’s 3, count ‘em, 3! ways to see the comic. 1.The best way to see the comic online is at Tor.com, the Sci Fi Supersite!  which has kindly up it up [...]

Welcome! If you are new you probably want to start with Lovelace: The Origin. You can then read the episodes/half-baked ideas/pointless ramblings chronologically by clicking on the link to the next post in the upper right of the post pages. At present the complete comics are: Lovelace and Babbage Vs The Economy. Lovelace and Babbage [...]

Despite the blog silence I have been drawing comics!!   The Museum of the History of Science Steampunk Exhibit opens on the 13th of October– the comic is  a 2-page insert for the Broadsheet . Thoroughly intimidated by the epic lineup of actual artists… Giant monster conditions:  severe.  Comic output will continue sporadic. Waiting-for-renders activity:  cataloging [...]

So here’s a little tale for you.  As it features ME, it is of course a gripping, hair-raising story of FUN and COOL and… okay, it’s a tale of.. LIBRARIES. So I’ve been tromping all over London in search of a few bits and bobs of books on Babbage, and a public library catalogue search [...]

Long renders and an itchy Google finger turn up a strange, sudden little window into the past: So, what DID Babbage talk about when he talked about Ada? WHOA. I found that little story amazing for a few reasons- -I’m kind of staggered by the fact that Babbage is telling this stuff to a complete [...]

Did I say two weeks?  Erm… here!  Look at some process art! Please understand that at present my priories are necessarily:  1. Job 2. Pub 3. Comic 4. Food, laundry, etc. I tend to do roughs while waiting for renders (that invaluable source of idleness in the visual effects industry).  Something else I do is [...]

Posting something, so that it is understood that this has not been the haughty silence of one who is Too Famous to Respond to Comments, but rather the awkward, paralyzed muteness of one opening a door to a broom closet and finding a large expectant audience in there waiting for her to say something funny. [...]

OH FAME THOU GAUDY BAUBLE! Charles Babbage Foresees the Future on BBC’s Techlab! When they asked me to do this I read their little intro where it says it’s a forum for “The World’s Leading Thinkers” to speculate about the future, and I thought, if that’s me, boy are we in trouble. There’s footnotes (of [...]

I’m currently holed up in my hidden mountain base in the wilds of Canada, where I’m enjoying being chased into lakes by enraged elk. In my devotion to this proto-comic, I am nobly forgoing 20-mile hikes through bear- and elk-infested trackless wastes to dedicate myself to curling up on the couch and drawing. The temporal [...]