Microsoft wants to build three massive AI data centres in Leeds. It’ll drain thousands of litres of water from the River Aire and become the city's biggest carbon emitter. We can still stop the council's final sign-off, but we need more voices. Add your name: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...

Stop the Microsoft AI megasite in Leeds!

Microsoft want to build three huge AI data centres at Skelton Grange. It would drain the River Aire and become the city's biggest carbon emitter. We can still stop it - add your name to the petition.

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This page was inspired by (very) old school Grand Theft Auto. Art, of course, by Si Smith. It’s from our book Gigs.

Don’t have a gig today.

@iandunt.bsky.social Hullo! Listening to your ep about Luddism & would very much like to send you my comic, Gigs, about... well, a bunch of the stuff you were talking about in the episode. It's (this IS embarrassing to type) somewhat critically acclaimed. www.publishersweekly.com/9781603095938

5/ 🇬🇧 Leeds 📍 Leeds Comics Collective @ The Brew Society Browse 30 stalls packed with comics, zines and artwork from local creators, 11am–5pm. A perfect chance to support indie artists and pick up something unique.

It’s fine, it’s not like we need water for other things.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w ago

Not enough water for UK’s datacentre plans, trade body says

A little over 1k short of goal and only 3 days to go! We're down to hours, people! Time to get off your tushies and back this book assembled by @sxbond.bsky.social

Mark Mosedale@markmosedale.bsky.social · 2w ago

subCULTURE, assembled by @sxbond.bsky.social, is superduper close to being funded! And I need you to get behind it so that I can read all the material in it that i didn't write (i.e. most of it) because it's going to be the tits. Please, thank you. www.kickstarter.com/projects/sxb...

Despite seven years of hurt, or whatever we want to call it, it's hard not to feel a bit pumped about this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=irVN...

Avengers: Doomsday | Official Trailer | In Theaters December 18

YouTube video by Marvel Entertainment

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subCULTURE, assembled by @sxbond.bsky.social, is superduper close to being funded! And I need you to get behind it so that I can read all the material in it that i didn't write (i.e. most of it) because it's going to be the tits. Please, thank you. www.kickstarter.com/projects/sxb...

subCULTURE

On In-Crowds & Outliers. A hardcover collection of comics, photos & essays from smoky clubs to secret raves by misfits & provocateurs.

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Yesterday Si and I had a big old chat with Tad and Phil at @22panelspodcast.bsky.social to talk about Gigs, art, the enshiffification of the future and more things than you can fit into one hour and 47 minutes. It was a good talk! jcd22panelspo.podbean.com/e/markmoseda...

"GIGS takes place in a time and space where most people’s livelihoods are reduced to being where they’re told by their phones." Maybe that seems too familiar but it's what Mark Mosedale and Si Smith explore in their new book from @topshelfcomix.bsky.social. www.fromcovertocover.com/gigs-by-mark...

Gigs by Mark Mosedale and Si Smith

At the heart of Gigs is a brewing rebellion, encouraged by Syd and fought by Ivy and others against the systems built to oppress and control.

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My mate wrote a comic book. I didn’t wanna hit him up for a free copy… and I wanted to boost his sales and support independent comic shops, because fuck Amazon. Amazon was selling it for half the price I paid though. #Gigs by Mark Mosedale and Si Smith.

Yesterday Si and I had a big old chat with Tad and Phil at @22panelspodcast.bsky.social to talk about Gigs, art, the enshiffification of the future and more things than you can fit into one hour and 47 minutes. It was a good talk! jcd22panelspo.podbean.com/e/markmoseda...

RIP Sam Neill. every comic book creator should watch this, it helps me immensely in the dark times

Daniel Benneworth-Gray@danielgray.com · 3w ago

Sam Neill on tackling depression and imposter syndrome when you’re between jobs.

Some Gigs we completed together.

Hello. It’s me again. Here until 7/23 looking for Mods. Rockers. Punks. Goths. New Wavers. Ravers. Where are my People? We need to raise $5.5K to make this glorious beast of a book full of comics, essays, photos & illustrations! Spread the word, Nerd! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sxb...

🚕🤖💸 What happens when the gig economy becomes the only economy? @chriscoplan.bsky.social sat down with @markmosedale.bsky.social and Si Smith to talk about their brilliant and unsettling graphic novel Gigs, exploring labor, AI, art, survival, and finding humanity in a system built to crush it:

Working toward that bright, scary future: Mark Mosedale and Si Smith discuss work, survival in ‘Gigs’

The future never looked so good (while also being so maddeningly depressive).

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Si knows what having a good time looks like. We've got a story in @sxbond.bsky.social's upcoming subCULTURE anthology, and I can't wait to look at the rest of it. #comics #subculture #rave #folkhorror

New addition to the Absolute line, @dc.com? #GIGS #Comics #Art #Illustration

GIGS panel of the day, to remind us what cold feels like before the heat hits. Art by Si Smith. #comics #scifi #dystopia (I guess) #ProperWeather

Breyfogle set the bar for what superhero comics should look like for me. Love this. (Though there are a couple of designs in there I'm glad got passed on)

Popverse@popversesays.bsky.social · 4w ago

Norm Breyfogle's 1990 pitch for a new Robin costume.

Still time to get your name down for this years micro-bursary. The deadline is on Sunday! Tell your friends!!

Thought Bubble Festival@thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social · last mo.

Our Micro-Bursary submissions are open! The Micro-Bursaries are open to early career, UK based: Comic Creators of Colour, Disabled Comic Creators, and/or Trans/Non-Binary Comic Creators. Find out more, and put your name forward here: thoughtbubblefestival.com/microbursaries

Feels vaguely tacky to just clip the bit of this interview where @sxbond.bsky.social talks about GIGS, but she blew my Vans off (again), so here we are. open.spotify.com/clip/11vbq4E...

Clip - With Great Power #336... 22 Panels with Shelly & Philip Bond

22 Panels - A Comic Book Podcast · Clip · 2m

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Three weeks since GIGS launched and it's been very much all of this. A great mini-tour, some really great coverage, and then the Great Deflation. Now I'm starting to dig in for the promotional long tail and TRYING to get back to writing/pitching. Despite a ton of support, it's weirdly lonely.

SHADOW OF MADNESS out now!@dvbishop.com · 4w ago

Revealed: the honest truth about publication week - dvbishop.substack.com/p/whats-publ...

China built a 40-story tower that banks wind power by hoisting giant concrete blocks, then dropping them when the grid needs juice. A skyscraper-sized battery with no lithium in it.

China built a 40-story tower that stores wind power by stacking concrete

The Swiss company Energy Vault spent years pitching a novel idea: store surplus electricity by using it to stack heavy blocks, then recover the power by letting them fall. Boing…

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Then I picked up Gigs, which has the praise of @aptshadow.bsky.social, @kierongillen.bsky.social and other heroes of the people. Basically it imagines a future where we all have to do whatever gigs society demands to survive. And it’s so damn good. @markmosedale.bsky.social and Si Smith, YES.

Bookplates have arrived for July 2026's Adult Graphic Novel club selection: GIGS. Find the book and the inserted bookplate on our Adult GNC cube! GIGS by @markmosedale.bsky.social and Si Smith / @topshelfcomix.bsky.social For more on our graphic novel club, click here: 🔗graphicnovelclub.com/start

I nearly pitched a story about the northern punks still doing it years after London had moved on, but I think P M Buchan's essay about being a goth in Newcastle's hinterlands will do it better. open.substack.com/pub/pmbuchan...

subCULTURE – Sanctuary for the strange and unusual

P M Buchan on growing up alternative in Newcastle, and his essay for subCULTURE — a new collection edited by Shelly Bond, on Kickstarter now.

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Right enjoyed doing this interview. It's still really early days with Gigs and we haven't had THAT much opportunity to talk to people who've read it, so @chriscoplan.bsky.social's really thoughtful questions were a ton of fun to get into.

AIPT@aiptcomics.com · last mo.

🚕🤖💸 What happens when the gig economy becomes the only economy? @chriscoplan.bsky.social sat down with @markmosedale.bsky.social and Si Smith to talk about their brilliant and unsettling graphic novel Gigs, exploring labor, AI, art, survival, and finding humanity in a system built to crush it:

This feels a bit like someone pinning a rosette on us. Very excited to be part of it.

Comix Experience@comixexperience.bsky.social · last mo.

Graphic Novel Club July 2026: -Kids Graphic Novel Club Selection: HAVEN AND THE FALLEN GIANTS by @kaijubean.bsky.social / @randomhousekids.bsky.social -Adult Graphic Novel Club Selection: GIGS by @markmosedale.bsky.social and Si Smith / @topshelfcomix.bsky.social 🔗graphicnovelclub.com/start