It’s that special comics-in-Oxford time of year again and this weekend will find me off at the Caption small press convention. Do come along and say hello if you’re in the area – I will no doubt be propped up somewhere in the bar either doodling or drinking or possibly both. There’ll also be copies of Necessary Monsters and the brand new Rule Of Death issue #6 for sale on the Caption comics table. Worth £2 of anyone’s money, I’m sure you’ll agree.

Meanwhile, on the Internets, I’ve finally had the time to complete the web version of my recent collaboration with David Baillie, The Casita Situations. The last year has seen myself and Dave take several jaunts across to Paris where we’ve been working on a hypercomic installation for the walls of a children’s mental health clinic at the Avicenne Hospital in Bobigny. While the comic is to a large extent site dependent, I’ve tried to provide at least a flavour of the thing in this new randomly generated web version. Take a peek and see what sense you can make of it.

Lastly, as I’m sure many of you have already noticed, I’m now on Twitter. So far I’m actually managing to twit (I know, I know, tweet. But I don’t care!) on a more regular basis than I manage to update this blog, which I guess is sort of the point. So keep an eye on @merlism for blow-by-blow updates on whatever nonsense I get up to between comics.