CHANGE OF PLANS ON AMERICAN REAPER We decided that, rather than go for a Kickstarter, we'd get Book One of Reaper out in time for Christmas. There's so much love for Reaper, but we weren't getting the followers that we needed.

Read for free my introduction to the Aaaagh! The Secret History of Actio iconoblast.substack.com/p/aaaagh-the...

Pencils from Gary Welsh 'Beating Churchill' in Ragtime Soldier. Churchill was sick. True story: MAN (to bearer): How much is he paying you to carry him? BEARER: Ten bob. MAN: I'll gie' you double to drop him. (love it!) Churchill lost the Dundee election and blames Ragtime.

New York City, 2062. Reapers hunt coffin cheaters: members of an ageing rich elite who become young again by inhabiting the bodies of innocent teenagers. A story torn from tomorrow's headlines: a future that's perilously near! Follow our Kickstarter: tinyurl.com/4a9yb25v

I found my original storyline that got us the gig with Trudie Styler’s film company to develop the character into a film and a comic strip. iconoblast.substack.com/p/american-r...

Matherson hunts body snatchers who perform illegal mind transplants. He's already lost his son. Now he must protect his daughter. youtu.be/xcdzmT_03Jg Join our Kickstarter for American Reaper Book One, drawn by Clint Langley with Reaper Files from Fay Dalton www.kickstarter.com/projects/pat...

We’re celebrating the launch of our online shop with 10% off ALL titles! So if you missed our Sha 1: The Shadow One Kickstarter, you can grab your softcover, hardcover or digital copy! www.millsverse.com/product/sha-... Offer ends 22/08/2025

Earlier this afternoon I received my copy of the deluxe Kickstarter-exclusive edition of “Sha Book 1 - The Shadow One” by Pat Mills & Olivier Ledroit. Was a bit late to the party, but @patmillswriter.bsky.social was super-accommodating, so thanks very much, Pat. Looking forward to future volumes!

Our 2nd Kickstarter American Reaper is in pre-launch! It’s a dystopian near-future thriller, created with Clint Langley. With bonus previously unseen War Dog art by Clint – the original inspiration for Sláine! www.kickstarter.com/projects/pat...

Long before James Lovelock’s Gaia theory, I remember being enthralled as a boy to read Conan Doyle’s When the World Screamed. iconoblast.substack.com/p/when-the-w...

Damn right!!!

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THE GREEN MAN Omnibus was a legendary BBC One arts documentary series. I wrote a sequence about the Green Man in Sláine: The Horned God, specially for Omnibus and you can see Simon painting it on the show. Our section starts at 16:52. iconoblast.substack.com/p/the-green-...

Great to see our Sha backers with their deluxe editions!

Rather unfortunate top line juxtaposition with the cover image

I always like to have catchphrases for my stories. Like Kiss My Axe! Dundee is famous for its jam. So I think the catch-phrase for Ragtime Soldier is likely to be the Dundee Black Watch's battle-cry 'Marmalade!' We've just 5 days and £3,800 to go on our KS: www.kickstarter.com/projects/com...

A successor to CHARLEY’S WAR at last! RAGTIME SOLDIER has my 11 page comic strip about the disastrous and tragic Battle of Loos and how the war resistance movement beat Winston Churchill in the Dundee election after the conflict. 1/2

The most extraordinary example of the Muse I’ve come across is a work by a writer which is worth lingering on. In the late 1980s he sent me – in weekly instalments, an amazing document about the nature of language. When collected together the pages stood three feet high! 1/2

This year is Battle comic’s 50th anniversary. Charley’s War was its number one story despite it being anti-war. So this seems like a good time to introduce its successor: Ragtime Soldier Back us in telling the important untold stories of the Dundee Black Watch: www.kickstarter.com/projects/com...

A selection of 4 pages from Sha #2: Soul Wound, with script by Pat Mills & art by Olivier Ledroit.

In Ragtime Soldier there are brief scenes showing Scott Joplin and the black origins of Ragtime. Teenage British soldiers were into Ragtime long before James Europe’s African-American band arrived with the Harlem Hellfighters in France in 1918. Back us here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/com...

Today's Nemesis The Warlock Secret History. The Princess of the Silver Elves suggests Love is the solution. Then adds reprovingly, ‘I mean Pure Love’. iconoblast.substack.com/p/nemesis-th...

In this week of BATTLE’S 50th ANNIVERSARY, I thought I’d show some of the INTERNATIONAL editions of CHARLEY’S WAR. The FRENCH colourful covers - I think they sold better in France than the Titan editions in the UK because their bright covers appealed to younger readers. 1/3

In Charley’s War, the villain was Captain Snell. In Ragtime Soldier we have two: Major Pollard, a real-life James Bond And Captain Fitzpatrick who has come up from the factory floor. He wants to be accepted by his brother officers, but never will. Back us here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/com...

Pat Mills explains why this is the successor to Charley’s War!

My best-selling saga Charley’s War reached generations of young readers, changed their minds about war. Then it was obscured by a monstrous lie of ‘a noble and brilliant war’ by military historians. Hence the need for Ragtime Soldier. Back our campaign: www.kickstarter.com/projects/com...

'No one provokes me with impunity' It sounds like the kind of threat barbarian Sláine would make to his enemies. It certainly has that Celtic menace, which is entirely appropriate as it’s the national motto of Scotland: Nemo me impune lacessit. iconoblast.substack.com/p/no-one-pro...

Ragtime music was the rock’n’roll music of its day loved by young soldiers in the Great War. Because it was hot and their parents hated it. Historians ignore it cos they’d rather show Tommies as patriotic cannon fodder. Back our campaign, help me tell their story: www.kickstarter.com/projects/com...

Ragtime Soldier should've happened long ago. But there was a media black-out on anything anti-war during the WW1 centenary years Publisher’s excuses to me were amusing and pathetic. The one exception was Dundee Uni who asked me to write Ragtime Soldier in 2019 www.kickstarter.com/projects/com...

Rebellion were keen on me writing a Charley’s War for Battle 50th anniversary. Then I heard no more. Whether it was because I turned down their suggested artist, or my story was too controversial, we’ll never know. So I wrote it for Ragtime Soldier instead www.kickstarter.com/projects/com...

Researching Dundee’s gangs for Ragtime Soldier, I discovered there weren’t any with the same high profile as Glasgow gangs. So my Sergeant was a (Catholic) Norman Conk from Glasgow who lost an eye after he showed mercy to a (Protestant) Billy Boy. www.kickstarter.com/projects/com...

“Politicians who took us to war should have been given the guns and told to settle their differences themselves, instead of organising nothing better than legalised mass murder.” Harry Patch, the last Tommy. A great source of inspiration for Ragtime Soldier. www.kickstarter.com/projects/com...

In WWI, British soldiers called themselves ‘The Ragtime Infantry. We cannot fight, we cannot shoot, what earthly use are we?’ They sang it to the tune of the hymn ‘The Church’s One Foundation’. That’s so Monty Python! Check out our Ragtime Soldier Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/com...

hey for anyone who might want to actually own their kindle books instead of renting them, or who might be thinking of switching to kobo etc and will want to convert them to epubs, you now only have one week before amazon kills your ability to download its ebooks www.theverge.com/news/612898/...

it's live now on Kickstarter tripwiremagazine.co.uk/headlines/pa... @patmillswriter.bsky.social

I once debated a Haig defender at the Imperial War Museum who said 1000s of soldiers paid their respects at the General’s funeral. But 1000s more knew the truth about him, which is censored today. It’s all there in my new Ragtime Soldier: www.kickstarter.com/projects/com...

in case people missed our chat with @patmillswriter.bsky.social here it is again tripwiremagazine.co.uk/headlines/pa...

Today’s historians censored and lied about the Great War. Called the Somme ‘a great victory’! Ragtime Soldier – the successor to Charley’s War – tells us the reality in a new saga illustrated by Gary Welsh & Phil Vaughan.

I always wanted to write more about the Home Front in Charley’s War and what families went through. Now, with Ragtime Soldier, I have the space to write about the war in the trenches and the war back home. Check out our Kickstarter, launching soon: www.kickstarter.com/projects/com...

Our 1st Ragtime Soldier story will be revised for the collection – with an extra page showing the Dundee election. A sick Winston Churchill was carried by 4 bearers like an Indian Maharajah. They were offered money to drop him! Kickstarter launches 14 Feb www.kickstarter.com/projects/com...

AFAIK Peaky Blinders is the only TV series that shows how working class soldiers suffered in the Great War + what happened to them when they came home. Alongside Charley's War, it's a major influence on Ragtime Soldier. Our Kickstarter launches 14th Feb: www.kickstarter.com/projects/com...

Adrift in Ipswich Matriarchy versus Patriarchy (3) Read my latest free post: iconoblast.substack.com/p/adrift-in-...

Launching soon: Ragtime Soldier! Follow us for campaign updates: www.kickstarter.com/projects/com...

Just finished the Ragtime Soldier outline featuring a Black Watch trench raid & showing Dundee’s Dope Boys after the war. In Peaky Blinders they also used cocaine & opium to deal w PTSD. The impact on soldiers of army-sponsored drug Forced March (cocaine) was huge. Establishment historians ignore it

Page one from Olivier Ledroit of our short story Hellfest in Hell, for Metal Hurlant.

I wrote about the medieval gnostic Cathars in Sláine. In both I was drawing on my strange, real-life adventures in France where I encountered the Cathars. But I’d actually come across some modern-day Cathars before. When I was twelve. iconoblast.substack.com/p/the-shadow...

Here's part 2 of my piece on Torturer, a German comic I created with the late John Hicklenton iconoblast.substack.com/p/torturer-2...

“Aiee! Now we're going up the stairs!” A Pageturners extra on dialogue. Free read. Aiee! iconoblast.substack.com/p/aiee-now-w...

8 hours left! Bag yourself a Kickstarter-exclusive deluxe edition of Sha Vol 1. The deluxe edition won't be available post-campaign – when it's gone, it's gone! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sha...