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Yes, I’ve reached the grand old age of 35, which I reckon is half the allotted span that’s dealt out to most of us.

That’s a bit depressing.

Not as depressing as it being pointed out to me on the phone by my mum this morning that she was my age when she had me and at that point she also had three daughters aged between 9 and 13.

Yikes.

Anyway, I don’t think I’ve done badly in the past 35 years;

- have a beautiful wife;
- have a baby due in the next few weeks;
- have a great family;
- have an awesome dog;
- have some great friends;
- traveled to Australia, New Zealand and across the US, and various other places;
- wrote a book (unpublished);
- wrote a screenplay(unpublished);
- wrote a comic;
- wrote another comic;
- wrote a whole bunch of other stuff;
- have a job which, although I may hate, allows me to provide for the first four above, and generally I work with some pretty cool people.

So yes, all over I’d say I’m a pretty lucky guy.

Well, obviously Mecha Simian didn’t win the Zuda competition in April. In fact, the strip came in 7th. Not great, but not terrible – after all it’s a pretty big deal to get into the final ten in the first place.

I’m not sure I’ll be doing anything else with the strip in the immediate future but in the meantime, it’s preserved on Zuda here, and the script and assorted odds and ends can be found here.

Over on my comics blog, I also posted an eight page comic I did (which was rejected by Zuda a few months ago), called The Thin Dead Line. Click on over and take  a look – page one’s at the bottom… There’s also a bunch of production stuff on the comic, again, including the script, here.

I’ve also updated the writing section to include spec scripts I wrote a few years ago for Smallville, Veronica Mars and Lost. They’re not fantastic and the Lost one especially has huge structural issues (because hanging off a cliff for half an episode’s dumb), but they were good practice.

In addition, there’s an original pilot for a comedy that I wrote before that. Again, not perfect but good practice. You can read Lucky Man here.

Phew!