Jun 13, 2026 · 45 min · 13 segments
**We lean into the art side of the process this podcast, and turn the clock back to days of yore when pen, pencil and paper were king,** Bristol Board, Sable brushes, Dip pens, Indian Ink, and HB…
Andrew WildmanHost
Simon FurmanHost
yes i mean because it i mean we go back such a long way i was thinking about this and we go back such a long way that obviously inevitably um the kind of technology and everything has changed everything.
When you were first writing comics, were you like literally on an old typewriter?
I remember typing Dracula file scripts or whatever for Scream on a proper old-fashioned manual typewriter.
plus tipex but i mean fairly fairly quickly i graduated to a electric typewriter and then an electric typewriter with one of those little strips of a screen so you could see the sentence you were typing on a screen before it transferred to the paper so it would get to the end of a line so you had a little moment to do some corrections before it printed out that line.
Well, less tip X, you know, and less just kind of, you know, old fashioned XXXs through words and things or crossings out.
a sight to see really although i did i i have got some somewhere because um i did for oh god the hibernia comics they'd unearthed um a nightcomer's story i did for scream that was never published and uh they they'd found some of my original scripts for it some of the art and Basically, in fact, no, all of the art, but not all of the scripts.
And they published it as one of their one-off Hibernia Press licensed under Rebellion, of course.
And that was fascinating, literally, to see those first typed scripts from way back in the day.
Because I seem to remember there were daisy wheel typewriters and golf ball typewriters.
And I think that might have been that one with the little screen strip, because then it would just type out that line really fast.
yes i mean because it i mean we go back such a long way i was thinking about this and we go back such a long way that obviously inevitably um the kind of technology and everything has changed everything.
When you were first writing comics, were you like literally on an old typewriter?
I remember typing Dracula file scripts or whatever for Scream on a proper old-fashioned manual typewriter.
plus tipex but i mean fairly fairly quickly i graduated to a electric typewriter and then an electric typewriter with one of those little strips of a screen so you could see the sentence you were typing on a screen before it transferred to the paper so it would get to the end of a line so you had a little moment to do some corrections before it printed out that line.
Well, less tip X, you know, and less just kind of, you know, old fashioned XXXs through words and things or crossings out.
a sight to see really although i did i i have got some somewhere because um i did for oh god the hibernia comics they'd unearthed um a nightcomer's story i did for scream that was never published and uh they they'd found some of my original scripts for it some of the art and Basically, in fact, no, all of the art, but not all of the scripts.
And they published it as one of their one-off Hibernia Press licensed under Rebellion, of course.
And that was fascinating, literally, to see those first typed scripts from way back in the day.
Because I seem to remember there were daisy wheel typewriters and golf ball typewriters.
And I think that might have been that one with the little screen strip, because then it would just type out that line really fast.
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