The Man Who Fell To Earth

I can't believe I only found out about this graphic novel yesterday! It came out 3 years ago:

Subotsky's Film that Never Was

Putting the final pieces together of my Lego reconstruction of the Guy N Smith film that, unfortunately, was never made: 

And for anyone who hasn't got the foggiest what this image refers to, here's a postcard I picked up from ladt year's Guy N Smith convention:

Crustacean Construction

Continuing work on my Guy N Smith construction for an upcoming fotoshoot for GNS3:

Feverfew

Flowers on a rainy Autumn morning:

These are also my favourite flowers in our garden at the moment.

A Time Travelling Adventure Begins

Preparing something special for GNS3 - the third #guynsmith fanzine, which is a 50th Anniversary Night of the Crabs special.

Shell Island - Part 4/4

In the final of 4 blog posts exploring Shell Island and the locations there and thereabouts featured in Guy N Smith's Night of the Crabs, I will share a few more scenes from the island before stopping of at Barmouth to show you a few more images of places from the novel.

The dramatic mountains of North Wales dominate the horizon around Shell Island. And whilst he weather during our camp on the island was very changeable, the clouds afforded some dramatic scenes around the various beauty stops:

This is our tent:

These are the dunes on the southern end of Shell Island...

...where visitors are welcome to camp:

The old farmhouse, below, is reputedly haunted by a girl, and has featured on the UK TV paranornal investigation show, Most Haunted:

This is Dartmouth Townhall, where plans on how to defeat the invasion of giant crabs were drawn:

The building now also doubles as a local theatre.

This is Dartmouth harbour, featured in the latter stages of Night of the Crabs:

And finally, here is the bridge that carries the traintrack along which Dai Peters and his passengers met King Crab before being consigned to their watery graves:

And that's all I have to share from my trip to Shell Island. Until, that is, next year when my Guy N Smith's Night of the Crabs pilgrimage will feature in GNS3 - the 2026 issue of the Guy N Smith fanzine.

As 2026 marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Guy's introductory novel in his Crabs franchise, GNS3 will be devoted to the author's giant crustaceans. Harking back to GNS1, I will also share a Gallery of Lego book cover mock ups of Guy's recent Crab book reissues. 

And that's not all. Whilst I can happily crack on with further crabby content for GNS3, like GNS2, I would ideally like to feature the creative work of other Guy N Smith fans in the fanzine. So, if you have any creative writing, book reviews, artwokmrk; quizzes or any other crab-related work you would like to see printed within the books covers of next year's Guy N Snith zine, get in touch with me via the new WhatsApp group devoted to the publication.

Shell Island - Part 3/4

Back to Guy N Smith's Night of the Crabs, I will use this post to share some of my photographs of a few other key settings used in the pulp horror novel.

Remember the Royal Airforce base where Professor Cliff Davenport who was interrogated after spying on the unmanned aircraft there to see if their undercarriages had left the strange giant crab-like marks on the Shell Island beach? Well, that RAF base exits no longer and is now utilised as a small airport:

And this is the beach carpark Davenport uses when he started out to explore the beach below:

Later in the novel, Professor Cliff Davenport learns that the giant crabs are not living in the sea, but in the adjoing marsh on the other side of Shell Island:

And here, on the causeway road that separates the marsh from the beach and cuts off Shell Island from the North Wales mainland at high tides, visitors enjoy catching crabs:

I wonder how many of them wonder, like Guy had the imagination to, what would happen if the little crabs they catch before returning them to the water, mutated into monstrous proportations.

I will round up my write-up of my late Summer Guy N Smith pilmrimage in my next post, with some more pretty pics from the island and a quick stop-off at Dorchester, with a couple more photographs of places features in Night of the Crabs.

As next year marks the 50th anniversary of the release of Guy's most popular story, I will also add a few details of how the next Guy Smith zine GNS3, will celebrate the event, and how you too can have your creative work featured in the book...