When I started researching my recent BBC essay, one question in the back of my mind was, how am I going to draw a black hole? There...

During the 1980s, when I was something less than ten years old, my brother and I auditioned for roles in a stage adaptation of Rudyard...

Last week, after literally months of research and development, my graphic essay ‘The Blue Flash’ was published by BBC Future. Sitting...

Today I have two offerings on the Manhattan Project. The first is my graphic essay, The Blue Flash for BBC Future. The result of many...

A few weeks ago I was interviewed for for Dan Snow's History Hit podcast on the subject of of Saint-Alban, the psychiatric hospital that...

This year is the 30th anniversary of Madonna's photo-book Sex. I was an adolescent when it was published but I clearly remember a...

In the summer of 2020 I started revisiting Jack Kirby's artwork for Marvel Comics. In particular I was looking at his early drawings for...

Back in 2008 I was asked by my friend, poet and Elder Bard of Ynys Witrin Wes White, to take part in some events in celebration of...

Wrapping presents? I enjoy it, usually more than buying the gifts. Here's some examples from the archive, starting with Christmas 2017....

During lock-down last year my cousin asked me to do some Zoom classes with her kids. In one session I set them the task of drawing...

This is the final part of Marie-Rose Ourabah’s story of asylum. Here she reflects on the impact of her experiences as a refugee during...

This is the story of how Marie-Rose Ourabah, daughter of François and Hélène Tosquelles, escaped Spain after her father was sentenced to...

In my correspondence with Marie-Rose Ourabah, daughter of François and Hélène Tosquelles, I asked her to tell me the story of how her...

During the research for my essay, Asylum, I corresponded with Marie-Rose Ourabah, daughter of François and Hélène Tosquelles, central...

My essay, Asylum, for Aeon, ends with this paragraph: “We are all subject, to a greater or lesser extent, to the deadening, separating...

In 1936, the poet Paul Éluard helped to organise an exhibition of work by surrealists from across Europe. In June of that year, when the...

During my research for the Asylum essay, I’ve been corresponding with Marie-Rose Ourabah, author and daughter of Francois Tosquelles. I...

Late last year, a friend invited me to watch a film called Our Lucky Hours. Directed by Martine Deyres, it tells the fascinating story of...

The following is an episode I wrote for my memoir, Tell Me the Planets, that wasn't included in the final version of the book. It tells...

In the winter of 2019 I attended Emily Haworth-Booth's Drawing the Graphic Novel course at the Royal Drawing School in London. Here are...