This, from a year ago today from me

67 years since the beginning of perhaps the greatestTV serial of all time.

49 years since The Signalman was broadcast.

Happy Noir Christmas!

Nearly finished work for the year once this new Criminal book is done. Didn’t think I’d been that busy in 2025, but adding it all up looks like I have been… 216 comic pages pencilled, inked and lettered, 6 covers, 12 painted commissions, a Blu-ray cover, and 39 paintings for the Criminal TV show!

Drink The Sea at Liverpool Arts Club last night. Finishing our gig going year with one of the absolute best. @remhq.bsky.social

Last day!

Offer ends Friday...

NEW LOW is out now! 'Thoughtful, expansive, and deeply layered…Torpa’s most fully realised work to date’ @moolakiiclubai.bsky.social ‘…tailor-made for the cinema, with tracks that dip into film noir, suspense, espionage and more’ @acloserlisten.bsky.social torpa.bandcamp.com/album/new-low

Our album IN ACTION is 4 years old this week! Get it for FREE/ PAY WHAT YOU WANT for #BandcampFriday torpa.bandcamp.com/album/in-act...

Last Bandcamp Friday of the year! torpa.bandcamp.com/album/new-low

A couple of personal favourites: DOOMSCROLLER torpa.bandcamp.com/track/doomsc... SILHOUETTE BY THE MOTORWAY torpa.bandcamp.com/track/silhou...

To celebrate the 4th anniversary of our album IN ACTION it is now FREE / PAY WHAT YOU WANT until 12 December. torpa.bandcamp.com/album/in-action Happy listening. @electronicsound.bsky.social @bobfischer.bsky.social @moonbuilding.bsky.social

A couple of personal favourites: DOOMSCROLLER torpa.bandcamp.com/track/doomsc... SILHOUETTE BY THE MOTORWAY torpa.bandcamp.com/track/silhou...

To celebrate the 4th anniversary of our album IN ACTION it is now FREE / PAY WHAT YOU WANT until 12 December. torpa.bandcamp.com/album/in-action Happy listening. @electronicsound.bsky.social @bobfischer.bsky.social @moonbuilding.bsky.social

Rupert Hines' 1978 OST The Shout is released on Friday; Darran Anderson digs into this & the sound of feature films about sound, including Berberian Sound Studio, Bait, The Conversation and episode 8 of Twin Peaks: The Return among other things. Ln1k in thared.

RIP Tom Stoppard: just an incredible writer. But also Hollywood’s go-to emergency guy for rescuing scripts for YEARS, under the pseudonym “Barry Watson”. Like when he totally saved the script to the third Indiana Jones just weeks before they filmed it: www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...

Susannah York, John Hurt & Alan Bates in The Shout (Jerzy Skolimowski 1978). Electronic soundtrack & effects by Rupert Hine preordering now & released next Friday on LP, CD + DL buriedtreasure.bandcamp.com/music

Magnificent set from the enigma that is @cravenfaults.bsky.social at the Capstone Theatre in Liverpool.

Yes hopefully Ewe are working on it But also Can you contact your local cinemas and ask for it ? It helps us massively

CINEMA DATES For our Film in the UK Screening NOW!!

This really needs emphasizing. The entirety of the UK media ecosystem is utterly fixated on a 100% fabricated "crisis".

Happy 50th birthday, Protect and Survive! A booklet full of bogus advice and a PIF series that was thankfully never shown (if it had, we'd have been hurtling towards a nuclear war), it still holds a special place in our hearts...

Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.

So how's the AI going?

It's Doctor Who Day. To celebrate, I've edited and designed a new digital bookazine for @radiotimes.bsky.social, collecting the best of the magazine's articles and rare photography from the show's early years. Download it FREE from www.radiotimes.com/doctor-who-t...

Fuck AI Christmas cards.

Weekend delivery. Can’t wait to dive in. @seanphillips.bsky.social

Saw Mulholland Drive at the cinema for the first time since its release in 2001. Seen it close to a dozen times on dvd, blu ray etc.since but nothing can top of the power Lynch on the big screen with that soul stirring Badalamenti score.

Thanks to @moonbuilding.bsky.social for a lovely review of our album NEW LOW in their latest issue!

Leonard McCombe, 1957. “Dublin” #photography #1950s #cats #Dublin #LeonardMcCombe

Just need to find a comic bag big enough for this monster! @andrelimaaraujo.com

The new John Lewis Christmas ad plays like a sequel to Adolescence.

All versions of us are in.

Undoubtedly one of the great creative partnerships in comics.

Peter Watkins has died - perhaps the least-appreciated great British filmmaker (and you sense he wouldn't have wanted it any other way). www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

RIP the brilliant Peter Watkins. The War Game and Punishment Park are required viewing and have only grown in relevance and power through the years.

Moonbuilding Weekly Issue 86, the fright night special, is out now ... moonbuilding.substack.com/p/issue-86-3...

#NowPlaying Wonderful reissue of Brigitte Fontaine’s 1968 French psych-pop classic. Worth it for the demos alone.

It's my last BBC Radio 3 Sound of Cinema tomorrow, and I will be saying a proper goodbye. So tomorrow's show is an argument for the intellectual depth and richness of the film music, and how it should never be treated like wallpaper. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Great to see Eureka releasing two great Kiyoshi Kurosawa films including one of this year's best, Cloud.

70 YEARS AGO TODAY: Quatermass II's story of meteor showers and government infiltration by aliens had what was then TV's most ambitious location shoots and was one of the first shows to be telerecorded for repeating.

You asked for, it's here! A RIGHTEOUS THIRS FOR VENGEANCE - Artist's Proof Edition, out in October 29. Collecting the first two issues in black and white in a gloriously giant-sized format. By me and @remender.bsky.social through @imagecomics.com. I'm mind blown by it and you will be too.

#NowPlaying Absolutely loving this release. @theblackdog.bsky.social having been knocking it out of the park with a run of brilliant albums and this is one of their best.

Last day!

If in doubt, black it out.

#MusicSky #ElectronicMusic #Music #AlternativeMusic #Bandcamp #Synth #Soundtrack

5 years old today 🎂

Offer expires Sunday!