Well this is a lovely thing created by @mertzmakesstuff.com Super nice comics folk is just what your timeline deserves 📓✨ go.bsky.app/DyFd9F4

Reject modernity, embrace tradition

I'll be at @halconscificon.bsky.social next weekend with the incredible @lianakangas.com and @notanotheralex.bsky.social, not to mention a whole HOST of other great people. If you're in the area, please come by and say hi and buy some books or sketches or prints! hal-con.com/guest-list

Guests | Hal-Con

See details about the guests who have been announced for Hal-Con 2023. Check back often and subscribe for email updates!

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CANADA!! I am super excited to be coming to you this November for @halconscificon.bsky.social Really pumped to be joining @ericaschultz42.bsky.social + @lianakangas.com s to chat comics as well as Clint McElroy to talk TTRPG art ✨🇨🇦✨ #halcon #comics #ttrpg #dungeonsanddaddies #adventurezone

I searched my heart for sympathy and only found schadenfreude.

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 4d ago

Not just polymarket. $3.5 Billion in crypto has been drained through a compromise of Binance.

👇👇👇

Jessica Ritchey@jmritchey.bsky.social · 4d ago

If you want more Patrick Stewarts, then you publicly fund the arts and learning programs, so that working class kids can find their way into making a career in them.

Oooff, this cuts hard. My Dad used to pretend to be Jean Luc & ask me ‘Number 1’ to fetch him a tea. Obviously I told him to get lost. RIP Patrick. Hope you meet my Dad in the great ether 🖤

George Takei@georgetakei.bsky.social · 4d ago

Fans across the world mourn the passing of a true and irreplaceable legend. As Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Patrick Stewart took the starship Enterprise to places it had never gone before.

Ah so it’s not just me getting these scam emails from putative literary agents that have no internet footprint and publishing houses that don’t exist?

Peter Ross@peteralanross.bsky.social · 5d ago

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The Diversity Spotlight Maps are here! These maps highlight Disabled Creators, Creators of Colour, and LGBTQ+ Creators exhibiting at Thought Bubble Comic Convention 2026! Check them out online now, or pick up a booklet at the convention. Take a look: thoughtbubblefestival.com/diversitymaps

I've talked about how this was inevitable. Generative AI has made superficially polished "perfection" universally accessible. But things that are universally accessible have much less social or artistic value. Even disregarding the moral an political objections: Gen AI is the new "Looks cheap."

Cartoon Brew@cartoonbrew.bsky.social · last wk.

China’s first AI-generated theatrical feature has flopped, earning just $181,000 in its first weekend. By contrast, the scrappy ‘Niu Lai’ turned its crude animation into a viral attraction, grossing nearly $10 million a couple of months ago. www.cartoonbrew.com/box-office-r...

By all accounts this is what most of the recent Reform media events have looked like. Bubble well and truly burst

Just backed Embers by @lyndondraws.bsky.social after a great panel with Lyndon at MCM & hearing of the beasts & eco folklore in this fantasy graphic novel. I know it’s going to be beautifully spooky. Get backing ASAP! www.kickstarter.com/projects/lyn...

Embers - A fantasy graphic novel full of monsters & magic

A travelling wizard returns to his home town, to save it from a fire demon and the people who banished him as a child.

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Reform and Tories have pledged to reverse ULEZ repeatedly.

G🅰️reth@gbentl.bsky.social · last wk.

London has probably now got the cleanest air out of any equivalent sized cities in the world thanks to Ulez, electric cars and buses.

NEWS! DOOMFLOWER is now available in audio from Audible! My first audiobook! Written by @jendiagammon.bsky.social and narrated by Kat Dawson, this is a dark #comedy #horror #romance. Meanest teen queen Camellia Dume vs. killer plants run amok! Out by @encyclopub.bsky.social. #audiobooks

Doomflower (Encyclopocalypse Originals)

Amazon.com: Doomflower (Encyclopocalypse Originals) (Audible Audio Edition): Jendia Gammon, Kat Dawson, Encyclopocalypse Publications: Audible Books & Originals

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Goodnight from the #Murderbot graphic novel campaign, and I hope I see some of you tomorrow at MCM! If you’re at the panel, do let me know if you’re a backer. No freebies to give out yet, but I’ll fist bump you or just nod supportively. www.kickstarter.com/projects/cos...

Murderbot: The First Graphic Novel | Multi-award-winning SF!

The official adaptation of the international bestselling multi-award-winning ALL SYSTEMS RED, part of The Murderbot Diaries series.

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If you see this, post a vampire that isn’t Dracula. (But is iconic)

Gary Erskine@garyerskine.bsky.social · 2w ago

If you see this, post a vampire that isn’t Dracula.

Incredibly excited for this. Love Lucy's work so much

Lucy Sullivan > Thought Bubble! B3 Travelling Man@lucysullivan.bsky.social · 3w ago

Closed script, layouts & thumbnails today on chapter 3 FOMHÁR / HARVEST of my upcoming book MOTHERS RUIN My favourite scene - Mammy Vs Nanna - involves a battle of the grannies (quips & jibes abound) in a greasy spoon (that’s a cafe to the uninitiated) Out Fall ‘27 with @averyhill.bsky.social

Anyway, a reminder in the run-up to our community-focussed Thought Bubble Month and all the fab TB coverage that's coming your way that @brokenfrontier.bsky.social runs at a massive loss every year. I rarely remember to link to this but your support is *so* appreciated. ko-fi.com/andyoliver70...

Support Broken Frontier

Support Broken Frontier

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The French ed. of my graphic memoir The Facts of Life is published today in Europe by ZoleVara. Canada on 23rd. The title is Fleuve Intranquille, which translates as Restless River. It's about not having children and chronic illness. #Books #Comics #GraphicMedicine #Memoir #ChronicIllness #MEcfs

Closed script, layouts & thumbnails today on chapter 3 FOMHÁR / HARVEST of my upcoming book MOTHERS RUIN My favourite scene - Mammy Vs Nanna - involves a battle of the grannies (quips & jibes abound) in a greasy spoon (that’s a cafe to the uninitiated) Out Fall ‘27 with @averyhill.bsky.social

Students made their first minicomics in my intro making course - mostly standard format but this student, a first time maker(!), did something so off the charts I’m still reeling from it! & he made like 12 of them for his classmates! A paper engineering feat of flipbookery as well as killer drawing!

Hope more people get to see it. Such a labour of love for the director & a brilliant, compelling film.

Alison Sampson MCM London AA A-02@alisonsampson.bsky.social · 3w ago

player.bfi.org.uk/subscription... @lucysullivan.bsky.social made the art for this film, and imho, there's a lot more of her in the film than that. It's amazing. You can stream it on the bfi player now

player.bfi.org.uk/subscription... @lucysullivan.bsky.social made the art for this film, and imho, there's a lot more of her in the film than that. It's amazing. You can stream it on the bfi player now

Watch The Thing with Feathers - BFI Player

Benedict Cumberbatch gives a powerful performance in this visually striking fantasy drama about grief, family, and healing.

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MCM London runs from 23rd to 25th October and I am excited to be hosting a frankly ridiculous number of panels this time - I have officially claimed the Artist Alley Stage as my domain! My panel prep has already started, so please enjoy an ongoing thread of who I get to talk to:

What makes a good monster? Join comic writers and artists, Lyndon White, Lucy Sullivan and Simon Birks, as they discuss how they craft magical creatures, diabolical demons and the supernatural into their stories. Hosted by me! @lyndondraws.bsky.social @lucysullivan.bsky.social @simonbirks.com

Best of luck to my old pal @chrismole.bsky.social and to SCARF 2026 this coming Saturday! A great example of getting off your arse and organising something cool for your area, massive kudos!

Chris "Human Cryptid" Mole@chrismole.bsky.social · 5mo ago

It's the full line-up for SCARF 2026! Far too many people for me to tag in this post but WHAT A CROP 😙🤌✨ October 10th 2026 at Trafalgar Warehouse, Sheffield, S1 4JT - completely free entry, and we'll have some freebies for the first 50 punters through the door! Put it in your diaries 📒

It's the full line-up for SCARF 2026! Far too many people for me to tag in this post but WHAT A CROP 😙🤌✨ October 10th 2026 at Trafalgar Warehouse, Sheffield, S1 4JT - completely free entry, and we'll have some freebies for the first 50 punters through the door! Put it in your diaries 📒

Sunday at #LICAF started with a cracking live drawing trio accompanied by a brilliant musical trio. Couldn’t have been better. Artist no2 was the County’s own @lucysullivan.bsky.social drawing with ink after being only spotted using carbon paper recently