2 new books out this month. My first book from Insight Editions – Captain America: The Illustrated History and Daredevil: The First 60 Years from Titan. All this and a guest spot at the first Liverpool Book Festival next month. It's enough to make me feel like a writer. Take that Imposter Syndrome!

Looking forward to this later this year. I'll be doing my double act with Tim Quinn as we talk all things Marvel! www.lavidaliverpool.co.uk/literary-leg...

LITERARY LEGENDS TO LIGHT UP LIVERPOOL BOOK FESTIVAL! - La Vida Liverpool

The inaugural Liverpool Book Festival on Sunday 7th September is shaping up to be a huge event, with an array of literary legends announced! The debut event is taking place at Invisible Wind Factory a...

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Says it all.

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Donald Trump Was Recruited by the KGB Under Codename 'Krasnov' Claims Former Soviet Spy Chief

A former senior KGB chief claims Trump was recruited by them in 1987 due to his role as a prominent US businessman

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First look at my first book for Insight Editions... amzn.eu/d/7X8JoW8 Out this July—which is also my birthday month!

Marvel's Captain America: The Illustrated History: The Making of the Star-Spangled Avenger

Buy Marvel's Captain America: The Illustrated History: The Making of the Star-Spangled Avenger by Cowsill, Alan (ISBN: 9798886638172) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

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Hold on. Pilks old head office in my hometown of St Helens is the spitting image of the Baxter Building... but there's no Fantastic Four inside... which would explain why Galactus was able to destroy St Helens and leave only ruins... #FF

That moment when you realise Back to the Future 2, that film you once watched that was set 30 years in the future is now set 10 years in the past!!

Great signing Saturday at St Helens Bookstop with Leigh Gallagher, Tim Quinn and Nigel Parkinson. Nice to do a comic event in my home town. Here's to the next one...

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St Helens “The Book Stop” hosts comic creator get together this Saturday

Titans, assemble! But not in the manga section….

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A hometown signing! #StHelens

Hometown signing in Jan. Really looking forward to it. Especially as I'll be alongside 3 comic pals!!

This is true about me.

It's Christmas Eve, I've grabbed my brother's Complete Calvin & Hobbes and suddenly everything is a bit too close to home.

Think I've solved the AI problem for creators. AI companies can datamine and steal as much work as they want as long as artists, writers and musicians can go in to their homes and steal their possessions.

So next July is all about who does best at the box office... Superman or the Fantastic Four?

Just wondering... what's everyone's favourite opening lines of a novel? #Booksky #Books

Black Doves is rather ace. Two eps in and hooked. Also a bit of me wants to see a Black Doves/Slow Horses crossover!

Sitcom idea. After they're both overthrown, Putin and Bashar al-Assad move to Tooting, South London, share a flat and sign on the dole... with hilarious results.

A lot of people ask what did an editor do at Marvel UK circa 1994? A typical day in the best office ever... #Marvel #comics #HULK

Flashback to my first full time editorial job at Games Workshop in the early 90s, trying to get their Warhammer comic off the ground. Still a little sad our Warrior-size mag featuring the likes of Bill King, Simon Coleby, Kev Walker and Colin MacNeil didn't get out the door... #comics #GW #Warhammer

Sold three copies of Zombie 18 this month on Amazon so will soon be retiring on the 63p that earns me. And to think, some people say writing doesn't pay!

Greg Wallace already confirmed for the next series of I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here...

Football's ace! YNWA!! #LFC

Please Don't Destroy are the best thing about SNL... www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyID...

Please Don’t Destroy - Mean Cute with Charli xcx - SNL

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live

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The Christmas Spider-Man issue is out this week from Panini in the UK! Issue 453... seems only a minute ago we launched the thing! www.panini.co.uk/shp_gbr_en/s...

Spider-Man Magazine 453

THIS ISSUE: Spider-Man faces an army of GREEN GOBLINS from across the Multiverse! But he’s not alone – he has Ghost Spider and Miles Morales to help him! PLUS: There are heaps of awesome activiti...

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Thought I'd share an old unpublished strip. This one started out as Deadline strip for Kilkane called Elvis Lives in my TV. We reworked it for David Leach's brilliant but never seen anthology mag he was putting together for Marvel UK. www.alancowsill.co.uk/strips/jim_s... #comics #Marvel #Deadline

Cool to see the rush of people joining here... as well as writing and editing I sometimes do a podcast interviewing comic folk. It's on hold atm due to deadlines but will start up again down the line. Think there's a rule that EVERYONE in the world has to do a podcast! lastgeekinspace.buzzsprout.com

Last Geek In Space

Interviews with famous comic book creators about their favourite artists, writers and comics and a behind the scenes look at magazine creation from those in the industry.

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One of my present gigs is editing Panini's Spider-Man comic. Loving it, writing text and thinking up puzzles. Mentioned it to a pal over coffee that it's nice working on a title I helped launch when I worked inhouse for Marvel UK back in 1996. He smiled and said he wasn't born then! #old #Marvel

Well this little snippet of geekdom's made my day. Thanks to Simon Frith for letting me know.... now I have a real god complex...