So proud that my friend the brilliant graphic artist and Blakean John Riordan has featured CREATURE at the blog Mindless Ones (UK). As a cinephile and visual expert, John happily singles out the futuristic flash-foward scene near the end of my novel, where the Creature (in a bit of time-bending it was fun to create) shows himself to the Lumiere brothers, who will create the medium through which he continues to come to life beyond the page. That scene also gives us a glimpse of Ada Lovelace, pacing around the Difference Engine, which becomes the first computer. “And now,” John observes, “here we are in the brave new world of Artificial Intelligence, commanding lumbering digital servitors stitched together from reanimated bits of the internet.” Indeed.

Plus, John has alerted me to the Shelleys’ appearance in Grant Morrison’s THE INVISIBLES (above), which, I confess, was new to me. Very eager to read it and learn more, and so grateful to John for his attention and time! Fellow Romanticists in particular should watch for LOS, John’s graphic narrative of the life of William Blake, coming soon, which he has been kind enough to share with me and my Blake seminar students. Take a look here!