This guide to watching bands alone and how to survive the experience was originally published in the Clap, Cambridge’s greatest music paper back in 2002.

Thought I’d start using Planet Alan to put out some old stories and articles.

An insider’s guide to the creation of the Spirit of Hope.

Congratulations to Sven Wilson and Colin Williams are in order as the DC Super Hero Collection has won another Diamond Gem Award for magazine of the year.

I’m presently editing a charity book for the Comic Book Alliance to raise funds for disaster victims across the world.

Just finished the features for Sven over at the DC Super Hero Collection. It seems to me that Mister Terrific is a really underused hero in the DC Universe.

Sending the Man-Bat Special to print this week. Designer Rob Green’s done a class job illustrating my old boss James Hill’s text with lashings of classic Neal Adams artwork.