Dan Whitehead
@danwhitehead.net
Writer for books, comics, TV and games. Worked on Star Wars, Looney Tunes, LOTR, and more. Ella Upgraded, Hex Loader, Frankenstein Texas, Speccy Nation, Blondie (Z2), Terrahawks (Time Bomb), Minecraft (HarperCollins)
Find my stuff here: danwhitehead.net
Find my stuff here: danwhitehead.net
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November 5, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Since the original post is deleted, here's what it contained:
We now go live to Andrew Cuomo...
November 5, 2025 at 6:47 AM
We now go live to Andrew Cuomo...
Kudos to the artist who managed to sneak this in.
November 5, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Kudos to the artist who managed to sneak this in.
There's an entire generations that will watch Pulp Fiction and wonder why the guy from the Direct Line adverts turns up.
November 3, 2025 at 8:23 PM
There's an entire generations that will watch Pulp Fiction and wonder why the guy from the Direct Line adverts turns up.
Inside you there are two Wolfs.
November 3, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Inside you there are two Wolfs.
Even older example: If you've seen a gorilla in a B-movie made between the 1930s and the late 1950s, it was probably Crash Corrigan. I genuinely love that kind of niche typecasting. You used to be able to have a solidly consistent career just playing The Gorilla Guy or The Drunk Hobo Guy!
November 3, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Even older example: If you've seen a gorilla in a B-movie made between the 1930s and the late 1950s, it was probably Crash Corrigan. I genuinely love that kind of niche typecasting. You used to be able to have a solidly consistent career just playing The Gorilla Guy or The Drunk Hobo Guy!
Tangentially related: the magnificent character actor George "Buck" Flower. If there was a drunk homeless guy in an 80s movie, it was almost always him. Best known as Red, Hill Valley's resident hobo in Back to the Future, but played similar roles in dozens of things. "Crazy drunk driver!"
November 3, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Tangentially related: the magnificent character actor George "Buck" Flower. If there was a drunk homeless guy in an 80s movie, it was almost always him. Best known as Red, Hill Valley's resident hobo in Back to the Future, but played similar roles in dozens of things. "Crazy drunk driver!"
Considering the recent wave of nostalgic movie documentaries, it blows my mind that nobody has made one about the Sherman Oaks Galleria, aka The Mall In Every 80s Movie. Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Night of the Comet, Commando, Phantom of the Mall, Innerspace, Chopping Mall, Terminator 2 etc...
November 3, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Considering the recent wave of nostalgic movie documentaries, it blows my mind that nobody has made one about the Sherman Oaks Galleria, aka The Mall In Every 80s Movie. Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Night of the Comet, Commando, Phantom of the Mall, Innerspace, Chopping Mall, Terminator 2 etc...
In 1953, as TV ownership exploded in the UK because of the Coronation, Ealing Studios released a comedy called Meet Mr Lucifer in which TV is literally a tool of devil created to cause the breakdown of society.
November 2, 2025 at 11:20 AM
In 1953, as TV ownership exploded in the UK because of the Coronation, Ealing Studios released a comedy called Meet Mr Lucifer in which TV is literally a tool of devil created to cause the breakdown of society.
This also gives off AI vibes. Not enough for AI detectors to pick it up, but it's clearly a digital image pasted on a paper texture (the texture isn't visible between the legs, for example) not an actual pen sketch.
October 30, 2025 at 4:49 PM
This also gives off AI vibes. Not enough for AI detectors to pick it up, but it's clearly a digital image pasted on a paper texture (the texture isn't visible between the legs, for example) not an actual pen sketch.
So much for secret identities!
October 30, 2025 at 1:44 PM
So much for secret identities!
The KP SKIPS FREE COMIC offer was also hilariously convoluted. You had to buy four comics, and collect a token from each one, then eat 10 packets of Skips and send the empty packets off along with the tokens, and they'd send you 88p - the cost of the four comics you'd bought - back through the post.
October 30, 2025 at 11:22 AM
The KP SKIPS FREE COMIC offer was also hilariously convoluted. You had to buy four comics, and collect a token from each one, then eat 10 packets of Skips and send the empty packets off along with the tokens, and they'd send you 88p - the cost of the four comics you'd bought - back through the post.
Oh, and I also did all the screenshots using a mod for the PC version that let you pose the characters.
October 29, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Oh, and I also did all the screenshots using a mod for the PC version that let you pose the characters.
Four years since I worked with Mojang and Collins on this range of official Minecraft English school workbooks. I worked with the publisher on the concept, then wrote the story material around the curriculum activities, and made sure everything was true to the game. A really fun gig.
October 29, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Four years since I worked with Mojang and Collins on this range of official Minecraft English school workbooks. I worked with the publisher on the concept, then wrote the story material around the curriculum activities, and made sure everything was true to the game. A really fun gig.
Same, but it’s the fully loaded dinner table from Tom & Jerry.
October 28, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Same, but it’s the fully loaded dinner table from Tom & Jerry.
I'm a monster. This is me.
October 28, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I'm a monster. This is me.