BenPaddon.co.uk

I always feel a bit silly writing these things. I usually write “About Me” pages in the third person, but I think that I need to stop doing that.

I’m a 22 year-old Brit living in Los Angeles, having left my long-time home of Luton in England in mid-2007. My passion in life is writing - if you were to ask me what my job is, I’d tell you I’m a Project Coordinator for Disney ABC Television Group. If you were to ask me what I am, I’d tell you I’m a writer. I’m the creator and de facto Head Writer of scifi-comedy webcomic Jump Leads, with the art provided by the inescapably brilliant JjAR. Together, JjAR and I act as the Webcomic Gurus for SoulGeek, or rather we will do once the page is updated.

My other writing work includes a semi-regular column for gaming website Game Partisan, where against all common sense I was voted in as Editor in Chief in early-2008. I’ve also had work published in the old pre-Future Publishing Nintendo Official Magazine UK. I would be tempted to say that I have written for the BBC’s website, but that written work extends as far as writing occasional emails to the Magazine Monitor, some of which have been published (mostly in the final months of 2005).

I’m into video games, as well as books, movies and good television. (Good television, by the way, is shows like Doctor Who, Scrubs, Red Dwarf, South Park, Coupling, The IT Crowd, and Who’s Line is it Anyway?. It is not shows like Will & Grace, World’s Most Extreme Car Chases, Friends, Deal or No Deal, or Loose Women.) I also like music, although I can’t say there’s much of it these days that’s any good.

Since my daring escape from England, there’s just the one Ben Paddon left living in the UK. He lives in Exeter and doesn’t know how to keep his blog up to date. Despite being 2 years my elder, I still consider him to be an underhanded little bastard who stole my name for his own nefarious purposes.