Recently by Tony Lee

So, when Neil Elkes suggested writing a regular column for the new and improved Birmingham Mail site, I jumped at the chance. Partly because I think that the Birmingham Mail is a great local publication, having even worked for them here and there in the past, and partly because the comics scene in the Midlands has never been stronger with creators and comics collectives as far as the eye can see; but mainly because I am of course an opinionated blowhard who's in love with his own voice.

For those of you who have never heard of me before, hello. My name's Tony Lee and I am a freelance writer. In employment talk, that's shorthand for 'person who spends a lot of the year worrying that he has no money to spend, and the rest of it rolling around in vats of the stuff, worrying about how he's going to make it last.' I'm a writer / journalist with over twenty years experience and for the last five years I've been working in comics.