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SK Schäfer

@skschafer.bsky.social

Sight-impaired queer artist from Bristol, UK. Fundamentally misunderstood the phrase "crying with laughter". More active on Instagram @skschafer

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SK Schäfer @skschafer.bsky.social · 2d ago

I would have thought Tom Holland would be making more money but I keep seeing him on the bus a lot lately.

SK Schäfer @skschafer.bsky.social · 3d ago

I exist and am making comics again.

Places you can buy my comics and/or hunt me for sport: a cartoon of a fat, white, bearded illustrator running for their life, as spears are thrown at them. They are clutching their white cane and dropping comic books everywhere as they flee. The dates and locations of their events are listed as follows:
August 8th: Sequential Scotland, Glasgow.
August 21-23rd: Undiscolved Private Island Untouched By International Law.
September 19th: PrideCAF, Bristol.
October 10th: The Most Dangerous Game Live, Mr Beast Studios.
November 14-15th: Thought Bubble, Harrogate.
November 17th: Where The Eyes Of God Cannot Judge The Sins we Levy Upon Our Fellow Man, Harrogate.

SK Schäfer @skschafer.bsky.social · 3d ago

I am bad at using Bluesky but I have events coming up including @sequential-scot.bsky.social where I get to be listed alongside incredible talent @shazleenmkhan.bsky.social because the alphabet is sometimes kind

Sequential Scotland Comic Con@sequential-scot.bsky.social · 3d ago

📢 Exhibitor announcements! Please welcome @shazleenmkhan.bsky.social, @iwanttobeahydra.bsky.social, @skschafer.bsky.social, Sounds Sketchy Illustration, South of Foggy, and Steven Fraser. 📖 Get tickets at sequentialscotland.co.uk

SK Schäfer @skschafer.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I've read this story a few times since it was posted. It is some really excellent reporting and evocative writing that shows just how a drug price can get so out of control and the damage it does.

ProPublica@propublica.org · 8mo ago

Cancer drug Revlimid is one of the bestselling pharmaceutical products of all time, with total sales of over $100 billion. It’s also extraordinarily expensive, costing nearly $1,000 for each pill, even though that pill costs just 25 cents to make. By @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social

SK Schäfer @skschafer.bsky.social · 9mo ago

And boy are their lips tired.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 9mo ago

Animals have been kissing for over 17 million years, a new study suggests. Kissing has long perplexed evolutionary biologists, given it has no obvious benefit to reproducing or finding food, while carrying the risk of disease transmission.

QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 9mo ago

🏳️‍⚧️ We’re back with paid opportunities for Trans+ creatives! Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you. With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026. Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️ 🧵 Details 👇

Graphic on light grey and pastel purple background featuring six Trans+ creatives. Text that reads: Trans+ History Week 04-10 May 2026. Paid opportunities for Trans+ Creatives.

SK Schäfer @skschafer.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Going to try and do #Inktober. Also going to try posting comics to BlueSky finally.

A cartoon based on the Inktober day one prompt "Moustache". Advanced Moustache Techniques. Each style of facial hair is accompanied by a drawing of a blank man's face with the stated style in bolder in.
Pencil: a thin wirey moustache like a pencil line. Quill: half of the pencil 'tache but the other end is styled as a feather. Soup Strainer: a bushy moustache covering the top lip. Spaghetti Strainer: an even bushier moustache with sieve holes in. Goatee: a moustache that wraps around the mouth area ending in a point on the chin. Mountain Goatee: a reverse of the Goatee that travels from filtrum to the top of the skull ending in a majestic peak. Handlebar: a long thick moustache that frames down either side of the mouth. Full Bicycle: it looks like a bike.

Transport for All @transportforall.org.uk · 11mo ago

Job alert! We're looking for a disabled person to become our Senior Engagement Officer London, working with members to organise events and meet ups focused on accessible transport, support campaigns, and lead on local consultations. Find out more: www.transportforall.org.uk/about-us/wor...

A casually dressed smiling black man with a limb difference. Behind him is a colourful mural. Under the picture the words 'recruiting now' are written in bold black text on yellow tape. Matching yellow arrows point to the man and words. The image has a lurid pink background.

Hannah Berry @streakofpith.bsky.social · 11mo ago

🌟 IT LIVES! 🌟 The UK Comics Creator Survey is BACK, baby! Here to gather up, analyse and disseminate your data to help uplift the comics world, like if Robin Hood was a statistician or something. ukcomicscreators.org.uk

A promotional image for the survey, reading “we’ve got questions; we need answers. Who’s in?” Above a series of illustrated raised hands in various styles. At the bottom is the url ukcomicscreators.org.uk

Transport for All @transportforall.org.uk · last yr.

We’re hiring! Transport for All is looking for: - Senior Communications and Engagement Officer - Admin Assistant (Policy, Public Affairs and Campaigns team) Passionate about accessible transport? Apply now: www.transportforall.org.uk/about-us/wor...

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Brooke from Let’s Not Date @letsnotdate.bsky.social · last yr.

Don’t send me an unsolicited picture of your peewee cocktapus unless you want me to… A: find your mom’s Facebook B: find a picture she uploaded of you reminiscing about what a nice young man you were C: badly photoshop that into a locket D: convince you I’m your daughter. Happy Father’s Day Daddy.

Pigeon @pigeonface.bsky.social · last yr.

I’ll be wrapping up a freelance gig in May and so I’m open for work from June onwards! Hit me up for: 🌱Character and ornament focused illustration 🌱Cover art 🌱Comics Portfolio: pigeonmakesart.co.uk Contact: pigeonmakesart@gmail.com

Cover design for my upcoming comic „The Ecstasy of Jenny D”. Merging medieval ornaments with the vibes of a teenager’s diary decorated with stickers. The nun in ecstasy on the cover is inspired by the sculpture Ecstasy of Saint Theresa.

A pagan folky lady adorned with flowers for the band Ophelia’s Beard

A book cover of a folk tale story „Selkie Song - The Mermaid of Scottish Sea”

Moody, dark comic page set in the woods. A young girl sits on the ground among red mushrooms. She’s looking up onto a tall house on a chicken foot which is towering over her and staring at her intensely with a single bright yellow eye.

SK Schäfer @skschafer.bsky.social · last yr.

Happy Shrove Tuesday everyone! #PancakeDay

A cartoon version of the Disaster Girl Meme where the girl is Guy Fawkes coyly smiling to camera, flipping a burnt pancake in a pan whilst a diner burns to ash in the background. Textreads: remember to burn your first lancake in honour of when Guy Fawkes tried to burn down that Pancake House.

SK Schäfer @skschafer.bsky.social · last yr.

Would play. Would build a PS2 out of sticks and mud in order to play.

Kit Frith@firstmadekit.uk · last yr.

@skschafer.bsky.social and @edinsnicestboy.bsky.social dearly wanted the Japanese PS2 Columbo game to exist, so I did my best...

Cover art concept for a PS2 Columbo inspired game.

SK Schäfer @skschafer.bsky.social · last yr.

Happy smooching season. Here is a comic about dating, kissing, and how Mike Love of The Beach Boys is music's greatest monster.

Third comes marriage. I've been on many bad dates: such as going to a cat cafe full of rescues who were all terrified of human beings so the whole place had an air of tragedy & trauma. A furious ginger cat with their heckles up screeches "so how did you two meet?". Or the time we had three bottles of port in four hours simply because it was "five weeks 'til Christmas". Turns out neither of us actually liked port. A phone scrolls through endless dating profiles of gradually emptying bottles of port. One time a woman asked me out after seeing me do stand-up. We went to dinner and 20 minutes in she said "Oh fuck you're like this off-stage too". Your author SK is pictured as a fat man with glasses and wild brown hair and beard, he is dressed nicely but slumped disappointedly at a dinner table as his date a put together woman awkwardly sips from a bottle of "not port". She thought I was doing a clever character act about a type of person we both hate, when in reality I am just a person we both hate.

However my worst choice of date was when I went on a third date to a wedding fayre. The phrase "third date to a wedding fayre" is presented on an elaborate wedding invitation. Our second date was to a graveyard and death didn't do us part so our choice of next date was limited. A row of headstones read: wedding fayre, retirement home, antenatal class, coffee. While at the graveyard my date made a CREATURE out of discarded trash we found including: headless teddy bear, plastic flowers from a bin, weird cross from a grate, burnt out noseless doll's head covered in swastikas. There is then a drawing of that creature which be thankful you cannot see.

We thought we'd have fun at the fayre, blend in with the crowds, make bets on which couples would divorce first, drown ourselves in free samples, use those samples to create a new monster. An artist's impression of what such a monster would like with the decapitated teddy bear being encased inside a wedding cake, holding sugared almonds, and wearing a veil over a head of roses.
But when we arrived we were the only ones there. Me and my date are pictured tiny and still at the end of long rows of vendors clammering to get to us. All eyes were on us immediatedly & intensely, like a puppy getting on a train, overwhelmed by the attention and unable to comprehend the speed we're moving at. A drawing of said puppy, shy and retreating from many grasping hands.

We were not prepared for this. We didn't even know each other's last names. So I just started answering questions antagonistically; "do you have a date yet?" was met with an aggressive "I like December but SOMEONE doesn't think winter is romantic." Me and my date argue in front a dejected staller "I just think it's too cold to have it outdoors" my date pleads while I sassily snap "I keep telling you you can't get frostbite twice!".
Our second mistake was not eating beforehand, they had enough free champagne for hundreds of guests, also my date didn't drink, so we were three stalls deep and I'd already drunk my weight in free booze, and in champagne terms my weight is a magnum (heavy on the bottom with a breakable neck). I am pictured next to a champagne bottle labelled "not port", I am very curvy and doing a silly little sexy pose showing off said heavy bottom.
So I was making increasingly ridiculous requests like having a giant bowl of spaghetti because it's MY wedding and thus my God-given right to Lady & Tramp the guests. I am sat cross-legged beneath a bowl of spaghetti & meatballs the size of a small house, I am dressed in a tux and have hearts in my eyes as a noodle dangles from my mouth and a queue of wedding guests line-up to enjoy their meal/smooch.

SK Schäfer @skschafer.bsky.social · last yr.

Happy smooching season. Here is a comic about dating, kissing, and how Mike Love of The Beach Boys is music's greatest monster.

Andy Barr @barrstard.bsky.social · last yr.

Similar to the 'defcon' system, the Mambo scale decreases with severity. Contrary to expectation Mambo No. 5 indicates, in fact, a normal state of Mambo - the most severe would be Mambo No. 1.

sean morley @seanmorl.com · 2y ago

Club Wormhole is the real deal. The UK only allows about 3-4 cities to have a healthy alt comedy scene at any one time and right now Nottingham's is the place to be.

Lee Kennedy, idiot@sionmillsscion.bsky.social · 2y ago

Cannot believe what a job the rest of The Club Wormhole Gang™️ did rewriting Macbeth as a Panto in 3 weeks

Cat Frith @catsinook.bsky.social · 2y ago

Ok! My twitch stream anniversary is around this time so I’ma do a longer stream of random stuff! Schedule below, Wednesday 27th November! Would be cool if you popped by 💜 twitch.tv/catsi_nook #artistsontwitch #streamanniversary #bmovie #coop

CATSIVERSARY - 4 years on twitch
9am- Needle felting
11am - Doodle requests
12pm - Supermarket Together with ENB
2pm - Loco Motive
4:30pm Watch/DrawAlong : Legends of Dinosaurs and Monster Birds
6pm - Finish!
1 Sub or Kofi over £4 = 1 Christmas dec on tree

SK Schäfer @skschafer.bsky.social · 2y ago

A comic of pre-cursors to roller disco. The "hot-rod lindy hop" has two 1950s teenagers dancing on the roof of a classic car. The "bi-plane charleston" has a flapper girl and her escort jiveing on the wings of a flying plane. The "penny farthing two step" has two victorian lovers embracing atop duelling penny farthings. The "horseback waltz" is a regency couple atop upright bipedal horses attempting an elegant waltz. The "riverboat bangle walk" has three women of ancient egypt on a long riverboat doing the famous waitress dance from The Bangles' 1980s hit song.

SK Schäfer @skschafer.bsky.social · 2y ago

A comic of Faux Pas: things that I have mistaken for my father.
An old jumper that smells of ash. A stack of military history novels. Angry static from an AM radio. A golf club with a moustache. A hammer I haven't seen in years. An emotionally distant ship in a bottle. An oil spill in the shape of a frown. Any man that refuses to hug me.

SK Schäfer @skschafer.bsky.social · 2y ago

Going to post a few old comics for this app.

A cartoon of hard to swallow pills. One is too spiky. One is literally on fire. One is far too long. One is made of glass. One is always flying. And one seems normal but is the size of an elephant and very far away.

SK Schäfer @skschafer.bsky.social · 2y ago

Going to post a few old comics for this app.

SK Schäfer @skschafer.bsky.social · 2y ago

Happy Gay Halloween. Part 1/2.

Title card for a comic called Horror Movie Villains Gayer Than The Babadook. Written in a drippy horror typeface except for the word "gayer" which is lit up like a Broadway sign.

Freddy Hearts Jason. Freddy Kruger and Jason Vorhees embrace as they passionately suck face. Freddy's long claw tenderly tracing the cheek of his lover. Awww.

Leather Daddy Face. Leather Face from Texas Chainsaw Massacre wielding their chainsaw and iconic flesh mask, but they set the whole outfit off with a skimpy leather BDSM number. Sexy and chic.

The Two Mummies. A pair of lesbian mothers who also happen to be ancient undead mummies have risen from the tomb to take a nice family photograph with their bouncing baby boy.

Natalie Alana Ashton @natalan.bsky.social · 3y ago

obsessed with margiethehun - a tiktok account that posts ai generated images of marge simpson reimagined as a kind-hearted british nail technician/aspiring instagram influencer

ai generated image of margie (marge simpson with fake eyelashes) wearing a white matching lounge set and uggs, and holding a starbucks takeaway cup. caption reads "caramel waffle latte today because we mean business x"

ai generated pov image of margie's full dinner plate. her nan is sitting opposite her happily waiting to start her own dinner until margie has finished taking a pic. caption reads "pie, mash, veg & gravy at Nan's 💕 she makes the best pies. there's nothin like a home cooked meal is there 🥲 x"

picture of margie in uggs and a puffer jacket in aldi's middle aisle, holding a rake. caption reads "av arrived in Aldi do of course im in the middle aisle looking at rakes. i av no use for a rake x"

margie standing in front of her pink car, which has novelty antlers attached to the roof. the registration is "MARG13". she's included a screenshot of a tiktok comment which asks "what happened to Homer?". her response is the caption, which reads "I av no idea who that is Hun x"