Comics artists: A young person of my acquaintance (age 8) is getting interested in drawing and writing comics and I'd like to get him a drawing book with a mix of comics advice and pages with panels. Does anyone have a rec? I would love to not buy on Jeff Bezos' Capitalism Emporium if I can!

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Starmer won't prevent far-right riots because he will not take on X. He won't ramp up defence in the face of Trump and Putin because he refuses to take hard financial decisions. He has failed to protect Britain against its enemies - foreign and domestic iandunt.substack.com/p/swirling-i...

Honestly wish I could erase my memory so I could go in again cold.

True for me. You?

Struggling to avoid spoilers here, but #DisclosureDay is literally exactly the same story as... another Spielberg film. And it ain't Jaws.

Unironically one of the funniest jokes in Star Wars history is literally that bit from Empire where an asteroid smacks into the bridge of a Star Destroyer and just flat-out kills a guy in the middle of a call with Vader, and everyone just ignores him

We are about to witness a corporation experiencing an extremely funny set of consequences lol

Felt a bit guilty about sitting around all morning reading comics… until I remembered it’s actually part of my job!

Torunn Grønbekk is known for her comic book writing, but she started in tech -- and is using that knowledge to build Norn, a new scriptwriting software for comic book writing.

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Whale necropolis discovered: • 745 miles long • Dates back 5.3 million years • Teeming with life that “may be new to science”

I’ve half-joked that at its heart, DOCTOR WHO was always “punk for kids.” Without a real home, family, status, even a name, the Doctor would always find monsters (literal and figurative) and authorities preying on others and he’d say NO and fight back. That’s delicious to a kid and still needed now.

I'm led to believe that the Prime Minister has actually issued a statement about last night's pogroms. But in order to read it you have to have an account on the combination far right propaganda/child abuse image website run by the US billionaire who has called for a fascist coup in Britain.

“The truth is that the global far right have spent the past few years using a billionaire-owned social media platform to deliberately whip up racist violence on Britain’s streets and now they are finally starting to succeed.”

*taps sign*

Famous authors asking you out

The Punisher sticker we've needed all along

Knife crime is actually falling in the UK, though certain individuals are trying to trick us into believing the opposite is the case. Ask yourself why. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

To anyone reading this - we are ACTIVELY SEEKING someone to cover indie comics as a regular beat...but everyone is making 15 minute videos now and it's hard to get them to put down the camera. I get that we need both platforms. Anyway who wants to write about comics, DM me.

This is amazing! For the 50th anniversary of Star Wars members of the modelling community decided to get together & build a 1 to 1 recreation of the ILM model shop in Van Nuys as it was in 1976. Using photos taken during the making of Star Wars they recreated this iconic space. So geeky. I love it!

THANK YOU to everyone at the Enniskillen Comic Fest! Had a wonderful time this weekend. Friendly fans, amazing creators, and positive vibes all round. Recommended! www.facebook.com/EnniskillenC...

I'll say this for him, he certainly knows how to fleece the rubes.

Look at this astonishing chart and tell me we don't have a billionaire wealth problem.

The Caped Crusader meets the Lawman of the Future – and it doesn't go well! Don't miss the oversized Batman/Judge Dredd: Judgement on Gotham Anniversary Edition — pre-order now https://bit.ly/4bOArOa

"Something remarkable happened in April. For the first time in history, wind and solar generated more electricity than gas across the entire planet. Not in a country. Not in a region. Globally." Tons of great news here from Danny Kennedy (via @billmckibben.bsky.social's newsletter, which rules).

Knife crime is actually falling in the UK, though certain individuals are trying to trick us into believing the opposite is the case. Ask yourself why. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

UK folks, let's jump on this AI regulation petition the Society of Authors emailed out! It's an actual parliament one so the government HAS to respond if it reaches the signature threshold. It calls for regulations to make AI developers disclose copyrighted works trained on. Sign & repost!! ❤️

Anniversary of "Tommy Robinson" celebrating the D Day soldiers who needlessly gave up their lives by running into the sea.

📆 Next Monday 15th June we’re going to be talking about goddamn COMICS LIVELIHOODS. What sources do we earn an income from? What does fair pay mean? What’s the value of IP? Should only commodified art exist? What is the difference between a career and a hobby, or -god help us- a “side hustle”?

We need more rich people with normal interests like "your movie sounds neat" instead of, like, white fertility rates.

because Phil Tippett is a fucking genius that's why

Want to start your own local comics meet-up but not sure how? @toadlett.bsky.social’s got you!

City AM issues broadside against flood of AI slop being submitted by writers for its pages: "if you can’t be bothered to write it, why should anyone be bothered to read it?" www.cityam.com/there-should...

Tokyo storm drains would be an amazing location to shoot a James Bond or Star Wars movie.

From Gamergate, to Blake Lively, to Brexit, to ‘two tier policing’, we know, we have data that most of these campaigns aren’t ’real.’ They’re primarily the work of bot farms employed by hostile nations. So why is this never discussed on a mainstream level?

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

Mad Cow Disease, but for computers. Well done everyone.

Football's coming home, along with every bit of gold from Trump's White House and a LOT of skulls.

Oh, and if you have no idea what I’m talking about, here’s the short version: I made a podcast from 2012-2023 talking to cool creative people then stopped and now I’m starting it again. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...

Photos of newly arrived immigrants at Ellis Island. Augustus Sherman took the photos between 1902 and 1920 when he worked as the Chief Registry Clerk. Striking to me how the outfits all look good because they have a discernible silhouette (shape and drape).

Saw people talking about Wally Wood's 22 Panels That Always Work. They've been passed around like cartoonist samizdat for decades now. This is good! But remember: they aren’t a lesson in how to make great comics, they’re just something to keep handy in case of emergency. Thread:

wait do people not have this post committed to memory like I do? bsky.app/profile/kyle...

Thursday eh

This line from the first Men in Black film is such sharp insight, I think about it a lot It's just a film, AND YET We love to think of ourselves as higher, intelligent beings who employ logic to guide our actions, but we absolutely are not

The dumb-tech revolution is happening. 99% of the CEO class still huffing the AI hype glue off a cliff, but anyone reading the room knows no one wants an AI surveillance fridge and there’s a huge opening right now for offline products that just fucking work (bonus points for chunky physical buttons)

"George was never considered a “people person.” But his wife was. She was famed for adding warmth to material that might otherwise seem mechanical or theoretical, as well as for figuring out which pieces of the story were guaranteed to make the audience happy." www.rogerebert.com/tributes/the...