✨Live on Kickstarter!✨ The Yellow Wallpaper #1 - A Gothic Classic Comes to Life www.kickstarter.com/projects/sim... From @bluefoxcomics.com Art: #NinaPoulston Adapted by: @simonbirks.com & @mariellewrites.bsky.social Letters: @robjoneswrites.bsky.social

The Yellow Wallpaper #1 - A Gothic Classic Comes to Life

Jane arrives at a new house after the birth of her child, but something isn't right. In the topmost room something's waiting for her...

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Did you know we administer a number of grants for authors? Grants currently open for applications include: 🖊️Authors' Foundation grants for works-in-progress 📜Strachey Trust Grants to enable authors to access literary manuscripts in a UK or Republic of Ireland archive

incidentally, if you want abs really, really quickly, that truck job will give them to you. Honestly why go to the gym when you can pick fruit and veg? (seriously tho, i did this with potatoes for such a bad rate i decided it was better never, ever to do it again).

United Farm Workers@ufw.bsky.social · 2d ago

Yesterday's temperature topped 105° in Fresno. "Carlos" and team were working in the watermelons. "Our team is paid piece rate. The more boxes we fill the more we make. The person closest to the truck has the hardest job so we switch off. This is exhausting work." #WeFeedYou

I just backed Nothing Stays Buried #1 on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/aar... This looks like it is set where I'm from, in Viking Yorkshire. Looking forward to seeing what the team does with it :) (Also-- have never seen anything set there before, so that's cool).

Nothing Stays Buried #1

22 Page Comic Book - Detective Noir/Mystery/Thriller! Imagine a 50s Detective Noir movie..but its Vikings.

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The launch page for my upcoming Kickstarter LOUISE SPROUSE STOLE MY HEART (AND I HAVE TWO HOURS TO GET IT BACK) - a coming of age hitman story - is now LIVE! If you like END OF LIFE at all you'll love this. www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...

Coming soon: Louise Sprouse Stole My Heart

A coming-of-age hitman comic from the three time Eisner nominated cartoonist Kyle Starks (END OF LIFE, RICK AND MORTY, LOBO, PEACEMAKER

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"Today is August 4, 2026" There Will Come Soft Rains By: Ray Bradbury

A few years ago I was asked by Netflix to illustrate my greatest fear, and I did, based on something that happened to me on my dad's farm when I was a kid- I got lost in a maze of backrooms in the Victorian outbuildings, in the dark. Eventually my dad came to rescue me because he heard me screaming.

Lotte Reiniger's silhouette animation in THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED (1926), the earliest surviving full-length animated feature. Her attention to detail was stunning, note the wobble of the chess piece.

So stoked to back the third issue of the coolest Brit mag since the original Deadline! Let’s get this funded! SKRAWL COMIX MAGAZINE #3 www.kickstarter.com/projects/rus...

SKRAWL COMIX MAGAZINE #3

Comics, interviews, prose, illustration from the UK-based SKRAWLLORDZ and some of their very fine chums.

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Lunga is the best. Like telletubby land. It also has amazing rabbits.

Per Ahlberg@perahlberg.bsky.social · 4w ago

The strangest thing happened today. We went to the uninhabited island of Lunga, west of Mull, to look at the puffins nesting there. I was just taking photos when I felt a thump as something landed quite heavily in my head. It was a puffin! It stayed for about a minute before flying off.

this is fair

Rachel Pinnelas 💭@racheaissance.com · 2d ago

I’m tired of men writing comics/comic book character stories about female rage.

A few years ago I was asked by Netflix to illustrate my greatest fear, and I did, based on something that happened to me on my dad's farm when I was a kid- I got lost in a maze of backrooms in the Victorian outbuildings, in the dark. Eventually my dad came to rescue me because he heard me screaming.

And I hope, Broken Frontier now. I'm sure there are readers and contributors and would be-contributors to @brokenfrontier.bsky.social who would like to see their work in A1Deadline. Hopefully this highlights to them that this is possible and highlights Dave and where to apply to. If I can, you can.

Andy Oliver@andywpoliver.bsky.social · 2d ago

This was a very lovely thing to run because Alison was so generous in linking it to a moment of @brokenfrontier.bsky.social history from the @frederikhautain.bsky.social era!

This was a very lovely thing to run because Alison was so generous in linking it to a moment of @brokenfrontier.bsky.social history from the @frederikhautain.bsky.social era!

Alison Sampson is working@alisonsampson.bsky.social · 2d ago

www.brokenfrontier.com/a1-deadline-... Missed this because I've been on holiday, but we spoke to @andywpoliver.bsky.social at @brokenfrontier.bsky.social about A1Deadline, our stories' origins with Broken Frontier & what Deadline means to us. cc @deevelliott.bsky.social @completelycathy.bsky.social

More people should read my comics imho

Hagai Palevsky (he/him)@dialhforhagai.bsky.social · 5mo ago

hey kids! comics! hagaipalevsky.itch.io

Have you preordered A GHOST ARM MADE OF ANGRY GHOSTS yet? FOC 8/10 From @oni-press.bsky.social Thanks to @tylerboss.bsky.social for the kind words!

“mass surveillance is fine if you got nothing to hide” they will have AI incorrectly labels you as a terrorist for drinking water

www.brokenfrontier.com/a1-deadline-... Missed this because I've been on holiday, but we spoke to @andywpoliver.bsky.social at @brokenfrontier.bsky.social about A1Deadline, our stories' origins with Broken Frontier & what Deadline means to us. cc @deevelliott.bsky.social @completelycathy.bsky.social

"Without 'A1' and 'Deadline', We Might Be in an Entirely Different Place in Comics" - Alison Sampson, Dave Elliott, Fred Van Lente and Cathy Kwan on the Return of Two Legendary Publications in 'A1 Dea...

Bringing together two legendary comics titles from the late 20th century in one package, A1 Deadline is an anthology that both builds on the past and looks to the future....

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This survey on drought and heatwave tolerant wild plants is closing in on 100 responses - please do fill it in with plants you've seen thriving or coping in recent days in your area. I'm aiming for over 200 responses in total. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Which wild plants are coping with heat and drought?

Help identify which wild plants are thriving in your area or garden without watering during hot, dry weather. Check your garden and wild areas near you this month August 2026 and report how wild plant...

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GROSS AND ABUSIVE

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d ago

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

amazing

John Lees@johnlees.bsky.social · 2d ago

Today's Patreon update is essentially a big supercut of my cycling journey thus far, charting all the progress in this thread from that first ride to last week's milestone goal. It's a long one, and not comics/process related, but I enjoyed writing it. Check it out! www.patreon.com/johnlees/pos...

pic from 2 or more years ago

Super useful. I figure a lot of us here in the Sky know this stuff already, but it might be handy to hand to parents, grandparents and pals who are less technically minded. www.librarian.net/NoToAI/

Hello I have made this due to a mutual having issues with some folks on here forgetting this fact and shouting at him for it. Feel free to use it as a handy PSA x

🔹 AI-generated media, ‘deepfakes’ must be clearly labelled as such 🔸Chatbots and virtual agents must explicitly state they aren't human 🔹You must be told when AI is actively analysing you, like biometrics, emotion tracking → link.europa.eu/gTvhRX

Sketches/finals for Jeff Noon and Steve Beard’s Gogmagog and Ludluda. Design by the brilliant Alice Coleman

Endometriosis takes nine years to diagnose. That’s about to change. NICE has approved two tests: a saliva test reading microRNA markers, and a gut-sensor test returning results in 45 minutes, sparing women the keyhole surgery currently needed. buff.ly/QX3jHk8 #ShareGoodNewsToo

Rapid endometriosis tests to be made available on NHS in England and Wales

Saliva and gut sensor-based tests hailed as ‘gamechanger’ for millions of women who can wait years for diagnosis

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Orchids revived, the corpse ambulant and a poetic ruined abbey. These are the news stories I want to read.

Amnesty international has done a lot of good work and shouldn't be brought down by this ... person

Holl🌞@willows-song.bsky.social · 4d ago

This is why you dont try to compromise or concede anything to these horrors

This is TODAY! Hugh Raine, Luke Pearson, Tor Freeman and myself taking it in turns to do signings and maybe draw silly things 🎸🏄🏻‍♂️🤯

Jamie Smart@jamiesmart.bsky.social · last wk.

🤯 THIS SATURDAY! GOSH COMICS! (Berwick Street, London). Come down and meet a host of brilliant comic artists, get things signed, etc etc. I don’t think it’s ticketed so you can just turn up (with so many brill artists though, I suspect it might be busy!) Timings below! 👇