Owen Watts
@owenwattsdraws.bsky.social
Comic colourist (on the Eisner-nommed Hocus Pocus among others) and inveterate doodler
love that Hocus Pocus gets a citation too! Cc: @owenwattsdraws.bsky.social @jordancollver.bsky.social @richardwiseman.bsky.social Still available from Vanishing Inc (Or at @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social www.vanishingincmagic.co.uk/ebooks/hocus...
Hocus Pocus
Professor Richard Wiseman welcomes you into a totally new world unlike anything else the magic community has ever seen with Hocus Pocus. This page-turning…
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Since everyone and their hog is talking about THAT documentary, here’s my long personal piece again about what ADHD actually means to someone with it. I have no choice but to live it, and labelling it and meeting like-minded folk will never cure it or make it magically disappear, but it helps.
ADHD & Me
Six symptoms which define my mind
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Glorious new live video from Vinnum Sabbathi - it'll never not be weird to hear my voice playing out of speakers at the start of "In Search of M-Theory", this time to an ecstatic home town audience in beautiful Mexico City WELCOME TO THE AGE OF MASTERY www.youtube.com/watch?v=Klbc...
Vinnum Sabbathi - Live at Doom City Fest 2025
YouTube video by Vinnum Sabbathi
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Local arty cinema doing cool "toddler film" events, decide to get involved and find they want an eye-watering £15 a ticket plus another fifteen for each adult, crikey very few other things for kids have such a prohibitive mark-up on them !
I have started a secret art jam group on a non-US theft engine supporting server. If you want to join my quiet idyll, give me a honk and I'll tell you know how. Our current theme is essentially "ancient horror" and we've been beavering away on dark visions. More to come, do join us.
@weirdbristol.bsky.social thought you'd be the right person to ask but do you know more about this purloined horse on the Blaise stables? All it says on the listing is "The bas-relief was brought back from Italy by Joseph Harford Junior in 1832." Hmm
Rare bit of fan art for me for SNL UK, fair play to it, despite being tethered to the American format it can get genuinely very dark and weird. Really enjoyed the "pork board" sketch in the last episode 😅
New substack post using the recent Judge Judy commission as a jumping point to explore my long history of doodling and colouring ol' stoney face.
Drokk It!
A History of Dredd & I
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The science of these little critters is pretty nuts. Here's a comic I did with @rikworth.bsky.social @owenwattsdraws.bsky.social for @bhamlalab.bsky.social #InverteFest #Sciart
Get To Know Nature@gettoknownature.bsky.social · 5mo agoA water strider for #InverteFest. I have spent an absurd amount of time watching them skate around on the water at my local streams. They move so effortlessly #InverteFest #invertebrates 🌿
My colouring on an idea from the twisted court of Judge Turnbull
A little sequence I forgot about, which I quite like. From the thalidomide comic @rikworth.bsky.social @owenwattsdraws.bsky.social & I made with @itraineu.bsky.social - frommoleculetodrug.com/thalidomide-...
I was formatting one of the articles in the "War Stories" TF zine I'm working on and Red Dwarf was mentioned then before I knew it...this happened. #art
Found out that Sam Kieth has died. I utterly adored his bizarre style, this Wolverine v Cyber issue came to me in a random bag of comics and it was mindblowing. It didn't look like anything else at all and I loved that.
Some recent cover art by me and @owenwattsdraws.bsky.social for MedMaster study guides: medmaster.net #sicart
I'm glad I read this from my dear friend Owen. I expect most people will recognise much of this, in yourself or your friends and loved ones.
Owen Watts@owenwattsdraws.bsky.social · 7mo agoA bit of an intense thing to post but it's the entire truth and that's all it can be. ADHD & Me in six key symptoms (with amusing doodles).
A bit of an intense thing to post but it's the entire truth and that's all it can be. ADHD & Me in six key symptoms (with amusing doodles).
ADHD & Me
Six symptoms which define my mind
owenwattsdraws.substack.com
The Eisner-Nominated Hocus Pocus by @jordancollver.bsky.social @owenwattsdraws.bsky.social Professor Richard Wiseman and me is on sale at Vanishing Inc as part of their Vanishing Day sale! Spooky, science comics! www.vanishingincmagic.com/ebooks/hocus...
Hocus Pocus
Professor Richard Wiseman welcomes you into a totally new world unlike anything else the magic community has ever seen with Hocus Pocus. This...
vanishingincmagic.com
Strangely enough I was showing this particular colouring job to my toddler in the library this week (she was not impressed)
Jordan Collver@jordancollver.bsky.social · 7mo agoFelt like posting something GREEN this morning.
To say I'm a massive fan of Red Dwarf is an understatement... I was so fixated on it as a kid that school had to contact my parents and ask them to "make me watch something else". Thanks Rob Grant, rest in peace. ((Ross Bampfylde art - my colouring, from yonks ago))
These lads know how to tell great stories and it's been a great pleasure seeing these slowly come to being so please DO check out their history-tacular, pet-nificent books. Buy one for each of your kids. Buy another for each of your pets. Then buy one for every historical figure to have ever lived.
Rik Worth 👻@rikworth.bsky.social · 7mo agoPets Tell Tales: Ancient Rome and Ancient Egypt out now! Human history from the point of view of the animals who have lived, worked and played alongside side us. Horrible Histories meets Creature Comforts via the Beano by an Eisner-nominated team. Available in all good bookshops!
Things AI couldn't do no.4568, draw this shitty wizard in misguided attempt to appease my toddler's boredom in a local library
Here's another favourite spread of mine from our Ancient Rome book coming out this week. @rikworth.bsky.social writes pages like this he knows I'll get a kick out of drawing.
Jordan Collver@jordancollver.bsky.social · 8mo agoThe prophecy is true: this comes out in less than a week now!
We were here. Easily the highlight of the festival for us, the wonderful anarchic joy of @touretteshero.bsky.social & Captain Hotknives. Also saw him in beautiful freeflowing form in late 2019 on the cusp of the world changing forever. Well it's a different time now alright... rest in peace Captain.
(1/2) Tourettes Hero and Captain Hotknives - Glade Stage - Glastonbury Festival 2016
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For no real reason I spent years making a musical podcast about the evolution of different genres. I have finished, and this is the very final episode and it's about heavy metal. There was no need for this, but I'm weirdly proud that I finished it after so long. www.mixcloud.com/genrevolver/...
I decided to take a brief wander with a long-lost art form: the teenage satirical comedy audio cassette. Turns out I made tons of them.
Audio Comedy
or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Tapes
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The contemporary pain of office culture appears to be having to endure endless hours of speculation on the Traitors. I feel like I'm in Pluribus. WHATS IN THE MILK CARTONS GUYS
Bristolians have set up a bot to mock our appalling and overpriced bus service and I'm weirdly feeling a huge amount of local pride
bristol-bus-bot@bristolbusbot.live · 8mo agoThe outbound m2 is 13 minutes late at Cumberland Basin, leaving passengers to contemplate the 94% humidity while awaiting their £2.60 commute. In franchised Manchester, a more reliable journey costs £2, but Bristolians must pay a premium for the privilege of standing in the damp.