Alan Cowsill
@alancowsill.bsky.social
Writer, editor, special ops geek. Presently editorial contributor for Panini's Spider-Man, chief writer on the new Marvel Encyclopedia.
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https://alancowsill.co.uk/
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2 new books out this month. My first book from Insight Editions – Captain America: The Illustrated History and Daredevil: The First 60 Years from Titan. All this and a guest spot at the first Liverpool Book Festival next month. It's enough to make me feel like a writer. Take that Imposter Syndrome!
August 13, 2025 at 9:05 PM
2 new books out this month. My first book from Insight Editions – Captain America: The Illustrated History and Daredevil: The First 60 Years from Titan. All this and a guest spot at the first Liverpool Book Festival next month. It's enough to make me feel like a writer. Take that Imposter Syndrome!
Hold on. Pilks old head office in my hometown of St Helens is the spitting image of the Baxter Building... but there's no Fantastic Four inside... which would explain why Galactus was able to destroy St Helens and leave only ruins... #FF
February 4, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Hold on. Pilks old head office in my hometown of St Helens is the spitting image of the Baxter Building... but there's no Fantastic Four inside... which would explain why Galactus was able to destroy St Helens and leave only ruins... #FF
Great signing Saturday at St Helens Bookstop with Leigh Gallagher, Tim Quinn and Nigel Parkinson. Nice to do a comic event in my home town. Here's to the next one...
January 19, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Great signing Saturday at St Helens Bookstop with Leigh Gallagher, Tim Quinn and Nigel Parkinson. Nice to do a comic event in my home town. Here's to the next one...
Hometown signing in Jan. Really looking forward to it. Especially as I'll be alongside 3 comic pals!!
December 28, 2024 at 4:54 PM
Hometown signing in Jan. Really looking forward to it. Especially as I'll be alongside 3 comic pals!!
Flashback to my first full time editorial job at Games Workshop in the early 90s, trying to get their Warhammer comic off the ground. Still a little sad our Warrior-size mag featuring the likes of Bill King, Simon Coleby, Kev Walker and Colin MacNeil didn't get out the door... #comics #GW #Warhammer
December 4, 2024 at 11:24 AM
Flashback to my first full time editorial job at Games Workshop in the early 90s, trying to get their Warhammer comic off the ground. Still a little sad our Warrior-size mag featuring the likes of Bill King, Simon Coleby, Kev Walker and Colin MacNeil didn't get out the door... #comics #GW #Warhammer
Geeks, trying to find the original issue this pic of Fin Fang Foom was in. Only found it an an old A-Z atm but know it's from somewhere...
October 21, 2024 at 11:23 PM
Geeks, trying to find the original issue this pic of Fin Fang Foom was in. Only found it an an old A-Z atm but know it's from somewhere...
Well this little snippet of geekdom's made my day. Thanks to Simon Frith for letting me know.... now I have a real god complex...
October 8, 2024 at 9:31 AM
Well this little snippet of geekdom's made my day. Thanks to Simon Frith for letting me know.... now I have a real god complex...
For me it wasn't the huge cosmic slugfests and the cosmic back from the dead (again) shenanigans that made the X-Men great, it was moments like this from the classic Paul Smith era.
April 1, 2024 at 3:29 PM
For me it wasn't the huge cosmic slugfests and the cosmic back from the dead (again) shenanigans that made the X-Men great, it was moments like this from the classic Paul Smith era.
As Facebook and Instagram are down I better post my park photo here..
March 5, 2024 at 4:17 PM
As Facebook and Instagram are down I better post my park photo here..
The new Godzilla/Kong trailer reminded me of something...
December 22, 2023 at 3:04 PM
The new Godzilla/Kong trailer reminded me of something...
Found an old disc and on that disc I came across this wonderful pic by the late Edmund Bagwell. We planned to turn it into a strip down the line... still miss him.
December 14, 2023 at 12:04 AM
Found an old disc and on that disc I came across this wonderful pic by the late Edmund Bagwell. We planned to turn it into a strip down the line... still miss him.
This week's workload includes writing about the Defenders and Tim Boo Ba! So that's a win.
October 9, 2023 at 10:35 PM
This week's workload includes writing about the Defenders and Tim Boo Ba! So that's a win.
Watching a full rainbow on Glastonbury Tor gets me extra hippy points.
September 21, 2023 at 7:08 PM
Watching a full rainbow on Glastonbury Tor gets me extra hippy points.
St Helens rocking on a Friday night...
September 1, 2023 at 10:34 PM
St Helens rocking on a Friday night...
Is having 2 of your books on sale in a charity shop a sign of success or failure? 😉
August 14, 2023 at 3:58 PM
Is having 2 of your books on sale in a charity shop a sign of success or failure? 😉
Uh, oh, someone's nicked half the moon!
August 6, 2023 at 11:16 PM
Uh, oh, someone's nicked half the moon!
