Andy Luke; he's a tumblin man.

March and April: bleeding productive! Feast eyes… And the livestreams! Even with a week off here there seems as much as May. This week I’m putting out the Sunny Season 7 reviews and verdict on Cutaway Comics’ Lytton by Saward and Renshaw. Here’s text links to March-April stuff: March’s VideosSunday Comics #2 – Jua OK! https://youtu.be/_MINVDqB7tcAndrew Luke Digital Portfolio…

February 2026’s batch of videos including a few new Discworld and Gerbils entries, as well as the first batch of Victorian Villainry livestreams, usually made with Katie Marshall. These are 3+ hours long each and I’ve gone through and timestamped them so you can get right to the pertinent points for you. I’ve Never Read Discworld with PJ Hart: Book 29: Night Watch Chatelherault and Cadzow (with…

I took a well deserved break after Christmas. Just four videos. Just four hours screentime. I’ve Never Read Discworld: Sky TV’s The Hogfather GerbLog: Gerbils of Summer 2025 200+ Seconds Sunny Season 5 – EXPANDED, REMASTERED, COLLECTED GerBlog: The Young Ones The new project is Sunday Comics, a weekly indy comics review show in a lazier style. Its available now at patreon.com/andyluke on the £1…

It’s January 9th and I’ve had an absolutely crippling work-load this last week. Muscle and bone pains in my left leg, brought on by the stress and labour, which I feel are subsiding. Two deadlines on the exact same day, worthy causes. Building Caption Comics Fest‘s online meeting to recruit committee members, connect with the resourcers and socialise. That went well: small but high in quality.…

Hello your eyes. Here’s the almighty first episode of Screencleaner with LOADS on MP media interests, a gaming and then a bad film review; lots of fun edutainment. These are going out every Wednesday at 10pm for the next six weeks. And a roundup of October’s videos, Press Gang Reader: 2×10 The Rest of My Life https://youtu.be/VXM4BuKDtgQ200 Seconds Sunny: 7×06 Storm of the Century…

I’ve been going at it with video creation lately. (YouTube.com/@andrewluke) 13 in September on Patreon: micro-reviewing Always Sunny, weekly for 82 weeks now, go me. Press Gang video essays, which is turning up some odd links and as I finish Series 2 is painting a picture of a show marrying reliable industry veterans with fresh new talent. The project of reading all of Terry Pratchett’s…

Caption Comics Fest has happened and everyone enjoyed it and James Kochalka said he wished he could have been there. A Work Capability Assessment was a trial and a verdict was good. New gerbil babies were born, some died. The Gen 1 gerb Abed died, and I am remembering I can’t feed him. RIP Abed 2022-2025. Goodbye old buddy. I found Abed night Friday 29th, around 10. Cold but not stone-cold. On…

VIDBLOG TRANSCRIPT Hello. I thought it was about right for a check-in as to were I’m going with life and Patreon and YouTube. My Universal Credit issues were resolved around three weeks ago, or at least a respite around them for the Summer. It all feels unstable as to after that. For now I can pay my rent and other essential bills with some left over for unforeseen expenses and things like…

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Death-Everyone-John-Robbins-ebook/dp/B0CSC3F7Y3 This horror-comedy is careful not to exploit the cruelty of its dicey theme, favouring consistent light wit over crash-bang punchlines. The word count is economical in this adventure of key protagonist Humphrey Hardly, himself a masterclass in writing the outsider. The tortured soul is deftly contrasted in public settings…

Patreon.com/andyluke is my home most of these days. Got to look after the paying customers first. And some times that finds its way to audiences. Half Baked Alaska is my new novel, a thriller-comedy set in the Aleutians range circa 1950s. Serialisation is just beginning. 200 Seconds Sunny. A series of capsule audio-video reviews of Always Sunny in Philadelphia. We’re just beginning series 2.…

[Comics] Occupied: Towards A Silent Night

In October 2019 I decided to give the 24 hour comics another go. It was an honourable failure: sixteen pages in sixteen hours (within twenty-six hours) I’m happy with the results which formed the backbone for chapters 27-28 of the novel. So I present it for you now, and as a download if you prefer. occupied-towards-a-silent-night-16hr-comicDownload You can find out more about the book at…

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I learned last night our new bookcast, I’ve never read Discworld, made the Apple top 50 for UK book pods in September. O Team! It was pleasant news after two days graft editing. There’s the new episode of The Drew and Look Podcast to come, in which I interview indie start-up SHP Comics about creative entrepreneurship, as well as sex, sci-fi and vampires. The Drew and Look has been on hiatus a…

Occupied extract: The Illuminati Man

The morning after the strike the camp was thick with frost and the three girls in the marquee sat in a wafting mist. Regardless, there was colour in Cat’s cheeks. She and Jack were talking about where they went for bargain clothes. It transpired they each went to the same charity shops. Kiera said they dressed so differently she’d never have realised it to look at them. The interruption…

Bob and Leon's new friendship is put to the text when Bob decides he's ready to face his fear of journalists. Mixed Up Media is a new Occupied 24 hour comic!

Occupied: Mixed Up Media was my fourth 24 hour comic, following Gran, Absence and Don’t Get Lost. Created in Farset Labs in 2014 it served as a rough draft for Occupied chapters 11-12: Optimising this for the web I followed the style Stephen Downey used at absencecomic.com. The images were merged in blocks of six with the easy free filesmerge.com making sure to keep altering the merge order as…

Press Gang – The School Edition (Part 1)

New Podcast! Comedy-drama Press Gang was widely hailed as one of the best YA telly series ever, attracting critical acclaim and industry awards. As well as featuring some of the best names in the business it launched a dozen careers including those of Stephen Moffat, Julia Sawalha, Dexter Fletcher, Lee Ross, Paul Reynolds, Gabrielle Anwar and Lucy Benjamin. Occupied author Andy Luke’s feature…

A first draft of Occupied chapters 7-8 in comics form!

Moved by Gran? Educated by Absence? Interacted with Don’t Get Lost? Then you’ll probably want The Spook. Created in Farset Labs in 2018, this served as a rough draft for Occupied chapters 7-8. Early pages are raggedy but it gets good hi-speed comixing: Optimising this for the web I followed the style Stephen Downey used at absencecomic.com. The images were merged in blocks of six with the easy…