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'Bridlington', by Reginald Edward Higgins, c.1926.

Just a reminder that my “Queer Mexicana” print is restocked on my store in photo frame and postcard sizes! Please check it out 🇲🇽🏳️‍🌈

It's actually remarkably easy to not ever use ChatGPT.

I'm Marc Laming and I draw comics. Here's my work for this #portfolioday

Old pic day (well, just found an 'old pic in a file' day really). Isabelle Kingdom Brunel

A day in Ravenna, somewhere I’ve always wanted to visit & never thought I’d get to. The pictures don’t come close to capturing the glitter & swash of the Byzantine mosaics… all over 1,500 years old.✨✨✨ Yep, that’s one & a half thousand. …& couldn’t miss the grave of Dante 💜 @alyfell.bsky.social

"A Luddite is someone who is against the *abuse* - not the use - of technology." The kids get it.

Hate to do this but I only had two orders this month and I'm overdrawn so if you could boost or check out my shop that'd be a great help! thanks anaisfae.art/shop/

Sometimes I'll be working on a page and get frustrated by the composition or pose of a character or whatever, just not liking how it's turning out, like "Ugh, this is awkward, bad, amatuer, boring!" And then I remember; I'm the artist. If I don't like it, I can change it. So then I do.

George Herriman is arguably one of the first major black artists in comics. And the only reason for that is because NO ONE KNEW HE WAS BLACK. He was light skinned enough to be white passing & hid that fact into old age so that he WOULD be able to continue drawing largely due to rampant racism.

Seeing the Bill Watterson originals full of pencil lines of stuff that didn’t work, scuffs the eraser didn’t pick up, white out galore and more was something I needed to see to remind myself that nothing is perfect the first go and tweaks need to be made and you’re allowed to try again.

Disgraceful. Absurd. As with the Kimmel situation, politicians across the world want to suppress protest and creative resistance. They hate opposition. They hate protest. They hate satire. They hate art. Soon we will wake up and find our mouths gagged, our hands tied, our pens and laptops taken away

Emily's new book is now LIVE on Kickstarter!

Endeavour inks

My illustrations for The Woman in Black are now available as signed giclee prints. You can view them on my website nicktankard.co.uk I’ll also be making the original illustrations available here on Bluesky, watch this space…The illustrations are in the hardback edition published by Vintage Classics.

The "Golden Age of AI" was the era when we didn't have it.

"Bill Forsyth’s 1983 masterpiece LOCAL HERO is perhaps the greatest film ever made about attuning to the frequency of a place, of someone fitting in where they least expected."

al parker is here to remind you that there's always something interesting you can do with patterns or color or staging.

A Truly Good Man www.thetimes.com/comment/regi...

Harry Willcock’s wonderful, enticing covers for Penguin editions of John Wyndham’s books. They make me feel like reading one right now, as fine book covers often do. Perhaps Trouble With Lichen …

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

Private Eye hits the nail on the head

Kat Philbin (kAt Philbin). Contemporary American. I’d had the first image,“The Bad Luck Gang” as a wallpaper for ages, and am now finding more of her lovely work.

A brand-new world of steampunk adventure is set to begin for 13-year-old Lumen and her grandfather Captain Nemo in the comic series The Adventures of Lumen N. Details: bit.ly/43f5c8I By James Robinson, Phil Hester & team, variants by @duncanfegredo.bsky.social @danbrereton.bsky.social & more!

Let's talk about these two department store owners: brother and sister Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld. From Newark, New Jersey. They are random people, basically. But in the late 1920s, with fascism taking over Europe, they made a choice that profoundly changed the world: 🧵

It took me nine months to be able to sit, focus and draw again. Hours of therapy, colouring in, and willpower to break a block I thought I’d never be able to break. ‘Heartbroken’ is the first piece to come from my rehabilitation. This little zine is one of my proudest achievements.

In the news: In which we learn that our leaders find it easier to believe "AI is the future" than to believe that actual, living human beings who make art for a living have rights and deserve respect. Our consent doesn't matter to them. Only appeasing the tech bros matters.

I mean it when I say that this comic belongs in the world's finest art museums. No one in the history of comic strips was better at the format in representing all of its facets and all it could be and do and say than Bill Watterson, and this comic is, IMO, Calvin & Hobbes in perfect microcosm.

The East End of London in the late 60s and 70s David Granick "Always remember to photograph the ordinary things around you, the people, places and events we all take for granted. Eventually time will make those photographs extraordinary."

Nate’s fonts are highly recommended and the man is a generous supporter of indies. 🙂

I'll be here 'Lawless' Bristol, end of May - 24th/25th. Pop along. The last time I did a con in Bristol I saw stromtroopers directing traffic. Although I imagine it's more likely to be Judge Dredd at this one. Or you know... traffic wardens. (There's a spin-off in there somewhere...)

Hey, remember people saying Supreme Court ruling wouldn't remove rights from trans and non-binary individuals, yeah that's not how reality works. It has further opened the door to this Attacks on our existence. To claims our lives are "an ideology to be combatted". 1/5 www.bbc.com/news/article...

It’s PUBLICATION DAY for the French translation of The Fates! And it’s BEAUTIFUL! ✨💜✨ Les Moires with Sabran Editions I am beyond thrilled - my first translated novel & Sabran have created a stunning edition to treasure ✨✨

'Captain Star' by Steven Appleby. Our intrepid team of animators worked on four episodes of this back in't nineties. I think I have some promo cards somewhere... www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTqn...

A wee update to the old leather jacket - still in one piece after 35 years or so. Ta muchly!

This is an absolutely heartrending read. Becky was a much valued member of the Broken Frontier team for the best part of three years and the anger I feel as more and more details emerge only intensifies as the weeks go on. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Very sad news.

Today UK authors are protesting against Meta for stealing our work to train their AI model. Authors earn an average of £7000 per year, we are not rich, and yet a trillion dollar company decided it didn’t want to license our work fairly as it was “too expensive” Theft is not a valid alternative.

Congratulations to all the folk getting tables for Thought Bubble @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social

To effing hell with AI.

I wanted to remind people of the existence of Fantasy Icon Catherine Jeffery Jones (1944-2011). She was a huge inspiration to me in high school and is well known amongst the fantasy illustration community but i’m curious if she’s know well by young trans artists today. She’s one of the greats

Got some fancy prints mounted (just two) for an in person event I'm doing in a couple of weeks, they look LUSH! #dragon #dragonart #prints #fantasyart

A satisfied vampire, such delicious illustrative work by Rachel a Rua. #beautifulbizarre #contemporaryart #surrealart #artcollectors #artmagazine #artinspo #vampireart #vampire #art

'The Fates', by Rosie Garland, is getting a French translation from Sabran Editions. This looks spectacular, with sprayed edges and some gorgeous embossing. It's a wonderful story (I'm completely unbiased - of course!) @rosiegarlandwriter.bsky.social

The inspiration for the size and shape and feel of The Whitechapel Cordon's print edition came from the wonderful ghost stories of @alyfell.bsky.social I love the idea of European-style books that show off the artwork, but in the (almost) global standard paper size, A4.