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I am a fifty year old writer. I create interviews and write review about comics and the film industry. I am here to make contacts and write more excellent interview with amazing creators. I will share writing and hope for feedback.

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David Mack Speaks To Tripwire About The Greatest American Hero And More Painting His Own Creative Path Tripwire’s contributing writer recently spoke to comic artist David Mack about his plans for 2026. TRIPWIRE: You recently shared online an image of a new cover you paint...

A few days ago I had a chance to chat to one of my absolute favourite artist and nicest people on Earth.
Please check out my little talk with superstar David Mack.
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26.02.2026 13:18 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

Please check out this link. I have been trying to write comics for 40 years. This new kickstarter book from Tripwire will have 25 pages of comic strips I have written for some amazing artists. PLEASE check it out, and support it if you can.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tri...

24.02.2026 15:44 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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P Craig Russell Talks About Unscheduled Adaptation Of Neil Gaiman’s Story Only The End of The World Again A Project Which May Never See The Light Of Day In recent weeks, artist P Craig Russell has been sharing some beautiful art on his social media. It all connects back to a story called Only The End of T...

I was recently very pleased to have an opportunity to speak to one of my favourite artists P Craig Russell. He spoke to me about his astonishing art for a Neil Gaiman story that may never see the light of day.
Please do have a read.
tripwiremagazine.co.uk/headlines/p-...

12.02.2026 16:26 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Tripwire Talks To Pat Mills About The 35th Anniversary Of British Comics Anthology Toxic Trying To Break The Mould Toxic! was an anarchic weekly British comic that ran for 31 issues between March to October 1991, that was published by Apocalypse Ltd. This means that as of March 2026, it w...

I make no bones about it. I absolutely loved the week comic Toxic back in the day.
It was like a slap across the chops. It was anarchic and punk and fun. Talking to Pat Mills recently was a huge thrill. Personally I am gutted Toxic didn't succeed. Have a read!
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01.02.2026 10:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Tripwire Talks To UK Indie Writer Laurence Alison About Working On Odysseus, Circe And More Reinterpreting The Classic Tales For The Four-color Medium Tripwire’s contributing writer Paul N Neal endeavours to keep an eye out for exciting developments in the UK Comic Industry. One of the more ...

It was recently a joy to talk to the gentleman and wonderful writer Laurence Alison about some of his various comics projects.
tripwiremagazine.co.uk/headlines/tr...

24.01.2026 17:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Tripwire Talks To Bob Bretall, Owner Of The Guinness World Records’ World’s Largest Comic Book Collection Talking to a Record-Breaking Comic Fan Tripwire’s contributing writer Paul Neal recently had the opportunity to speak to Bob Bretall about his incredible comic collection… TRIPWIRE: Bob, am I correct ...

I was recently my pleasure to talk Bob Bretall. He holds the Guinness Book of Records title for the world's largest comic collection. Please do have a read.
tripwiremagazine.co.uk/headlines/tr...

16.01.2026 19:06 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Simon Bisley Talks About His Favourite Comic Covers What Makes A Great Comic Book Cover For One Of Modern UK Comics’ Best Artists? During 2025 Tripwire’s contributing writer Paul Neal has presented a trilogy of articles that asked a variety of comic cr...

I recently spoke to the Comic Icon Simon Bisley about his favourite comic covers. Please do check it out.
He is amazing. Feel free to share. Comments are very welcome.
tripwiremagazine.co.uk/headlines/si...

24.12.2025 13:49 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

John Wagner,Andrew Sawyers,SHAKY KANE,Jose Villarrubia, Brad Walker,Dakota Alexander,Dave Elliot, Howard Chaykin, Comics Tony,Michael Powell,Chris McAuley,Ian D Peterson, Laurence Alison,Alan Holloway, Marc Deering & Chuck Dixon talk about their fav Xmas comics tripwiremagazine.co.uk/headlines/cr...

23.12.2025 12:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

John Wagner,Andrew Sawyers,SHAKY KANE,Jose Villarrubia, Brad Walker,Dakota Alexander,Dave Elliot, Howard Chaykin, Comics Tony,Michael Powell,Chris McAuley,Ian D Peterson, Laurence Alison,Alan Holloway, Marc Deering & Chuck Dixon talk about their fav Xmas comics
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23.12.2025 12:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Tripwire Asks Another Ten Comic Creators What Makes Truly Remarkable Comic Book Covers! Part Three Beckoning The Reader In Tripwire’s contributing writer Paul N Neal welcomes you to Part Three of his series of articles that simply asks ten talented comic book professionals at a time about what makes a genuinely effective and eye-catching comic book cover. Here is the question everyone involved was asked: “As a comic book professional, […]

I am pleased to share my article that asks creators what makes a great Comic cover. THIS IS PART 3. It features Jerry Ordway, Brad Walker, Jose Villarrubia, Alex Ronald, Greg Staples, Grayham Puttock, Shaky Kane, Patrick Olliffe, Fabian Nicieza, & Marc Deering
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14.12.2025 17:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Tripwire’s Contributing Writer Paul Neal Speaks To Veteran Marvel And DC Editor Mike Carlin About His Decades In Comics A Life Shaped By The Four-Color World Over a number of weeks Tripwire’s contributing Writer Paul N Neal recently had the wonderful opportunity to talk to comics veteran and legendary Superman editor M...

It was recently my joy to speak with veteran comics writer and editor Mike Carlin about his incredible career and his time guiding the various adventures of Superman.
tripwiremagazine.co.uk/headlines/tr...

05.12.2025 09:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Tripwire Asks Ten More Comic Creators What Makes An Eye-catching Cover Part Two The Shop Window To A Comic As promised after of a well-received part one, Tripwire’s contributing writer Paul Neal continues to ask ten more of our friends in the comic industry a deceivingly simple q...

If you love comics please click on my NEW piece for Tripwire. THIS IS PART 2. With Bill Morrison,Joseph M Linsner,Dan Brereton,Jimmy Broxton, Val Semeiks,David Mack,Yildiray Cinar,Dan Cornwell,B Sienkiewicz,Dakota Alexander, and Andrew Sawyers
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31.10.2025 19:48 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Ten Comic Creators Explain What Makes A Really Good Comic Cover Part One Just What’s A Great Comic Cover? Tripwire’s contributing writer Paul N Neal recently asked a handful of our friends from within the comic industry a deceiving straightforward question? He hoped to fin...

I recently put together an article for Tripwire Magazine. It was about was makes an effective and eye catching comic book cover.
I am so gratefully to the creators involved for taking part and sharing their valuable time. This is an article I am genuinely REALLY proud of PLEASE do have a read.

20.09.2025 06:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Tripwire Looks At The Social Network Trend Looking At A Modern Film Fashion Tripwire’s contributing writer Paul N Neal has written for Tripwire in the past when he thinks he has noticed a trend in television or cinema… Paul argues that the suc...

I recently wrote an article for Tripwire that puts forward the idea that the film The Social Network kickstarted a sub genre of of film for movie makers. Love to have some feedback. Or indeed shares
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16.09.2025 12:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Tripwire’s Contributing Writer Paul N Neal Investigates Morphodroids #1 The Greatest Comics Toy Tieup That Never Was Tripwire’s contributing writer Paul N Neal spends much of his time looking at the Kickstarter comic market. He thought Morphodroids looked interesting and ...

It is my absolute joy to share my latest humble article for Tripwire's website. Keith Finch's kickstarter looks fun and interesting.
I endeavoured to find out more. Please do check it out.
tripwiremagazine.co.uk/headlines/tr...

10.09.2025 12:59 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Tripwire Catches Up With 2000AD And DC Comics Legend Glenn Fabry Talking To A British Comics Original Tripwire’s contributing writer Paul N Neal just interviewed legendary UK comic artist Glenn Fabry to talk about his health and what he is up in terms of work and h...

I have not said anything for a while. It was recently my pleasure to talk to the LEGEND Glenn Fabry. He had some WONDERFUL news to share and chatted to me. PLEASE DO SHARE THE GOOD NEWS. Comments are very, very welcome. but please share. I am so pleased for him
tripwiremagazine.co.uk/headlines/tr...

21.08.2025 15:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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Tripwire Catches Up With 2000AD And DC Comics Legend Glenn Fabry Talking To A British Comics Original Tripwire’s contributing writer Paul N Neal just interviewed legendary UK comic artist Glenn Fabry to talk about his health and what he is up in terms of work and h...

I have not said anything for a while. It was recently my please to talk to the LEGEND Glenn Fabry. He had some WONDERFUL news to share and chatted to me. PLEASE DO SHARE THE GOOD NEWS. Comment are very, very welcome. but please share.

tripwiremagazine.co.uk/headlines/tr...

21.08.2025 14:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Tripwire’s Paul Neal Looks At The “Let’s Launch A Nuke To Solve All Our Problems” Cliche In Movies Time To Call In The Nuclear Option Tripwire’s contributing writer Paul N Neal thinks he has spotted an annoying trend in modern movie making. This is where in action or superhero movies the military f...

I recently wrote a piece for Tripwire Magazine online. It is a fun piece about movies and a movie cliché I thought I spotted. Please do have a read. Comments are very welcome.
tripwiremagazine.co.uk/headlines/tr...

31.07.2025 11:16 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Spielberg’s Top 10 Movie Moments The Master Of Modern Cinema’s Key Scenes With Spielberg’s Jaws hitting its fiftieth birthday this year, our contributing writer Paul N Neal decided to put together his own top ten of the legendary dir...

It was my pleasure to to recently write and put together a Top Ten of Steven Spielberg's greatest movie moments for Tripwire.
Please do have a read. Or even share if you like it?
tripwiremagazine.co.uk/headlines/sp...

17.07.2025 08:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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30 Days: A Longpig Tale, Kickstarter Launches On 27th May A Tasty Treat After the success of the first Longpig miniseries the creative team recently announced the launch of a new original horror/western tale from the dark history of Longpig. A stand-alone ho...

It was a pleasure recently to briefly talk to Grayham Puttock about the latest addition to his Longpig saga. It promises to be well worth checking out. Grayham's writing always a treat and Adam Jakes' art is excellent. Their partnership is one of the jewels of the independent UK comics scene.

27.05.2025 06:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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23.05.2025 10:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Artists Talk About The Right Way To Draw Superman Part Two Portraying DC’s Man of Steel A month ago, Tripwire published an article that asked a number of wonderful artists how they approached illustrating Superman. It asked them within approximately 200-300 w...

After much thought I finally finished Part Two of my "How Best to Approach Drawing Superman with some incredible artists

23.05.2025 10:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Tripwire Talks To Chris Weston About Dark Horse’s Paranoid Gardens With Gerard Way, Now In Trade, And Shares A 10-Page Preview Enter The Gardens Of Paranoia Chris Weston is longtime friend of Tripwire, and with a new trade paperback edition of his latest work Paranoid Gardens, written by Gerard Way with Shaun Simon, now avail...

Can I share a recent chat I had with the excellent Chris Weston about his stunning art on Dark Horse Comics, Paranoid Gardens. Our talk includes a ten page preview of his gorgeous art. Please do have a read.

09.05.2025 23:36 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Tripwire Talks To Chris Weston About Dark Horse’s Paranoid Gardens With Gerard Way, Now In Trade, And Shares A 10-Page Preview Enter The Gardens Of Paranoia Chris Weston is longtime friend of Tripwire, and with a new trade paperback edition of his latest work Paranoid Gardens, written by Gerard Way with Shaun Simon, now avail...

Can I share a recent chat I had with the excellent Chris Weston about his stunning art on Dark Horse Comics, Paranoid Gardens. Our talk includes a ten page preview of his gorgeous art. Please do have a read.

09.05.2025 23:36 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Steve Yeowell Talks About Zenith, Grant Morrison And More An Auspicious Start Given Grant Morrison’s apparent retirement from mainstream comics, in the third of a new series of retrospective interviews, Tripwire’s contributing writer Paul N Neal recently too...

It is my absolute thrill to share my latest interview for Tripwire. For many years Zenith from the pages of 2000AD has been one of my absolute favourite comic strips. So it with great pleasure I share my brand new interview with Steve Yeowell about his time working with comic writer Grant Morrison.

28.04.2025 16:56 👍 21 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 1
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John Wagner And Dan Cornwell Tell Tripwire All About Spector: Incorruptible, The Final Work Of Carlos Ezquerra Cleaning Up The City Legendary Judge Dredd writer John Wagner and talented artist Dan Cornwell recently took some time to talk to Tripwire’s contributing writer Paul N Neal about the collected edition...

Check out this Tripwire Magazine interview with John Wagner and Dan Cornwell about their new @2000ad.bsky.social comic, Spector! The pair will be here from 1pm today to sign your copies!

tripwiremagazine.co.uk/headlines/jo...

26.04.2025 09:41 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Andrew J Lewis Talks About The Latest Volume Of 2000AD Fanzine ZARJAZ A Love Letter To The Prog Zarjaz editor Andrew J Lewis recently reached out to Tripwire to discuss Volume 3 of 2000AD’s long running anthology fanzine. In an effort to discover more our contributing w...

It is my honour today to share my interview with Andrew J Lewis. It is all about Volume 3 of the 2000AD fanzine Zarjaz.

Please read, please SHARE and please love this project as much as I do>
tripwiremagazine.co.uk/headlines/an...

12.04.2025 19:20 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Tripwire Reviews Netflix’s The Electric State Lacking A Real Spark Tripwire’s contributing writer Paul N Neal tries to understand Netflix’s $320m gamble, The Electric State, available to watch now… Directors: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo Stars: Chris...

Over the weekend I tried writing a review of Netflix's The Electric State. Please do have a read, any feedback is very welcome.
(Feel free to share it)
tripwiremagazine.co.uk/headlines/tr...

18.03.2025 12:50 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Dakota Alexander Talks To Tripwire about Trouble Comics’ The Hunter The Hunt Is On Again While online Tripwire’s contributing writer Paul N Neal recently spotted an exciting Kickstarter for a new comic called The Hunter. He was so impressed by the project’s distinctiv...

I recently had the chance to talk to writer and artist and all round gentleman Dakota Alexander about his wonderful comic project, The Hunter.
His kickstarter is very exciting. For comic fans it promises a real kick of retro nostalgia. Honestly you will not be disappointed. Comments are welcome.

14.03.2025 19:00 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

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The article / interview will be posted here too in due course.
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Paul N Neal
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