I have finished the portrait I have wanted to paint for more than three decades... Here is the man who led the mutiny aboard the 'Bounty', Fletcher Christian. More context in alt text. #art
Graeme Neil Reid
@graemeneilreid.bsky.social
Artist when I can be and Scottish all the time. https://linktr.ee/GraemeNeilReid
Painting by Charles Ginner ‘Early Morning’ 1917. Oil on canvas. Measurements 61.6 x 50.2 cm.
Happy 89th Birthday, Sergio Aragonés! Sergio silliness can be found on his official website at sergioaragones.com – and do check out the Groo website at groo.com It’s pretty snazzy considering it’s about a mendicant.
"It's the end... but the moment has been prepared for." I was eight when Tom changed to Peter and I really wasn't happy. I knew there were other actors to play the Doctor but I'd never seen a regeneration before. It didn't take long for me to warm to the 5th. Another fully painted Post-It Note.
Sketchbook Bowie Character #24: Nikola Tesla/ The Prestige.
"It's the end... but the moment has been prepared for." I was eight when Tom changed to Peter and I really wasn't happy. I knew there were other actors to play the Doctor but I'd never seen a regeneration before. It didn't take long for me to warm to the 5th. Another fully painted Post-It Note.
Crimson Devil bits and pieces The pages with professional looking lettering are by your pal and mine Colin Bell the others are by my crude hand
Big Chris Lee in @hammerfilms.bsky.social The Mummy. Full page illustration for the next issue of @claretzine.bsky.social
The new edition of Cry Havoc is published by footsoreminiatures.co.uk . The maps are now double sided and there's new artwork for the counters too. Eveything was drawn in black ink and hand coloured using liquid water colours and a touch of gouache.
In June 1934 the British Union of Fascists - the Blackshirts - staged a rally at the Olympia in London. One protestor after another was singled out and beaten up by the crowd. Here's how Ronald Blythe described it.
Dave Vetter@davidrvetter.bsky.social · 2d agoContent warning: Multiple men violently assault a female protester at Reform's conference at the Birmingham NEC, to the visible delight of Nigel Farage.
found a box of Alex Automatic trade paperbacks in the cupboard of doom 228 pages of Psychotropic spy action issues 1-5 and loads of extras jamescorcoran.bigcartel.com
Richard O'Sullivan, RIP. He was always on the telly when I was a kid.
Had a request for a download of Stramash so I have done a £7 bundle of all issues so far and the silent sketch comic Voldugur called Big Auld Download. If scratchy inks, weird Scottish gangsters and loose use of ancient myths are your thing. Apologies I forgot the link jamescorcoran.bigcartel.com
Look at this Giles cartoon from 1978 We have foreground & background. The foreground is on a different level to the background. The architecture of the house, the ceiling & the landing are in service to that. The subject in the foreground is framed. The subjects in the background are also framed...
![[Scene is a parody of a 1970s Public Information Film. A young girl is going home from school.]
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[She leaves the school gates].
VOICEOVER:
The world today
is full of people.
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You meet lots of them every day.
[The girl crosses the road with the help of a LOLLIPOP MAN]
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LOLLIPOP MAN says ’to camera’ [girl’s POV]:
Mind ‘ow you go, love.
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But every time you meet one,
[She gets on a bus]
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BUS DRIVER [also talking to camera]:
That’ll be 40p, please
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[She enters a sweet shop]
You must always think to yourself:
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[The kindly looking woman behind the counter hands her a bag of pick n mix]
KINDLY WOMAN:
There y’are, sweet’art...
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[Voiceover again]:
Could *they* be a person who leaves one-star reviews for things when they get sent the wrong item?
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[The woman picks up a smartphone to write something]
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[Cut to a view of her phone screen, it is an Amazon review page for Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro]:
Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro
[one star]
THIS ISN’T A PRIT STICK
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[Woman looks ‘to camera’ at the girl, sinisterly]
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[Girl’s terrified face behind the ad’s final text line]:
Always have one-star-reviewers-of-things-for-not-being-other-things sense.
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September begins so if you have my calendar (or another one unrelated to me and my work) then get turning that page to the new month!
From 2005, a look back at the work of Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin from Smallfilms. If you grew up in the UK in the 70s then this is a treasure of memories.
Ivor the Engine and the Story of Smallfilms (2005)
YouTube video by Paul Desmond
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Who's looking for comic cover work? I'm going to be hiring a bunch of people in 2027 and would love to expand my list of human artists. Please include samples and/or a link to your portfolio. NO AI or bots using other people's work please
"Quid pro quo. I tell you things, you tell me things." I've seen this film many times (and drawn it) but it was cool to watch it with my son for his first viewing and see his reaction. Post-It Note art.
Just realised that Christopher Lee is in this 1968 radio adaptation of this Ray Bradbury story. Plus there’s music/effects by Tristam Cary. It’s about to start on the radio and will be available to listen again shortly afterwards www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 Extra - Leviathan '99 by Ray Bradbury
2099. Ships sail toward the stars instead of under them. One is led to its destruction....
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PAID COMIC ART GIG Signal boosting for my writer friend @nakerman.bsky.social He needs an artist for a new comic series. Mood: Greek gods, hell , epic battles with great motion. Dante’s Inferno, Mortal Kombat, The Song of Achilles. Horror is key! Post your portfolio + rates. Strictly no AI!
Summer original art sale is here! From 15-50% off some of these. Help me clear some space in my shop and drawers! www.scoobtoobins.com/category/ori...
My new comic 'The Purple Feather' should be back from the printers on the 3rd September. I'll put it on sale once it turns up.
Absolutely this. A cornerstone of our lives, in music in culture, and a genuinely good soul . RIP
Martin SFP Bryant@martinsfp.bsky.social · 2w agoDolly Parton dying feels like when Bowie died
