With alt text. If you’re in the NYC area, try going.

Oh jeez that’s me 😳

Vote now in the Broken Frontier Awards 2025! Nominees for 'Best Writer' include @acmedarryl.bsky.social, @denizcamp.bsky.social, Mariko Tamaki, Marjorie Liu and @paulcornell.bsky.social. Online voting form here: www.brokenfrontier.com/introducing-... #BFAwards25

My variant for The Nice House by the Sea #7 #thenicehousebythesea #jamestynionIV #alvaromartinezbueno #vertigo #dccomics #javierrodriguez

I am founding a not-for-profit website where independent comic creators and small publishers can easily sell their works to libraries, plus provide other services. Called (for now) the Comics Librarian Commons, this will be an online hub bringing independent creators and librarians together.

Vote now in the Broken Frontier Awards 2025! Nominees for 'Breakout Talent' include Alex Taylor, @lgions.bsky.social, @kaysohini.bsky.social, Kayla E. and @paigumondus.bsky.social. Online voting form here: www.brokenfrontier.com/introducing-... #BFAwards25

Vote now in the Broken Frontier Awards 2025! Nominees for 'Best Writer' include @acmedarryl.bsky.social, @denizcamp.bsky.social, Mariko Tamaki, Marjorie Liu and @paulcornell.bsky.social. Online voting form here: www.brokenfrontier.com/introducing-... #BFAwards25

This. We will happily offer this.

Vote now in the Broken Frontier Awards 2025! Nominees for 'Best Graphic Novel' include work by Lee Lai, @jesselonergan.bsky.social, Kayla E., @keezyyoung.bsky.social and @donyatodd.bsky.social. Online voting form here: www.brokenfrontier.com/introducing-... #BFAwards25

This 1970s ad from one of the recent Archie Comics facsimile issues makes me feel so sad about how few titles Archie publish today on a monthly basis. (Also I wish their facsimile issues were printed on newsprint so they actually were “facsimiles”.)

You have GOT to remove this fucking app from your life. I am serious. Delete all your posts and get the hell off of X right now, or be branded as a fascist supporting bigot. It's done. Get off.

Our comic anthology, Samidoon: Comics for a Free Palestine, the proceeds of which go to the Palestine Red Crescent Society, was nominated for Best One-Shot Anthology in the @brokenfrontier.bsky.social awards! www.brokenfrontier.com/introducing-... I speak for the team in saying we're very honored.

Review! How to Make Life Better When It Feels Like It’s Getting Worse – Fluffy is Back: A Tender, Timely Coming-of-Age Twenty Years on from Simone Lia @simonelia.bsky.social and @jonathancape.bsky.social. www.brokenfrontier.com/how-to-make-... Review by @lydiaturner97.bsky.social

HUGE NEWS! Preview: Silent Pictures – Kevin O’Neill’s Final Books ‘Feartreland’ and ‘The Balaclava Kid’ Available from Knockabout and Gosh! Comics @goshcomics.bsky.social this Month. www.brokenfrontier.com/preview-sile... Check out some stunning art in this article!

I started the year at BF saying we would approach our commitment to socially relevant work with a renewed vigour in 2025 and that would include books we missed covering first time around. Here's a good example.

Stop fucking posting on X, the white nationalist site for white nationalists.

Any time I hear about billionaires building data centers I picture Apokolips

Declan Shalvey allegedly donated to anti-trans activist Graham Linehan Declan Shalvey came under fire on social media for allegedly donating to a fundraising campaign for anti-trans activist Graham Linehan.

I think Rob did exceptional work on our book that went beyond lettering and was full on storytelling. Go vote!

Vote now in the Broken Frontier Awards 2025! Nominees for 'Best Graphic Novel' include work by Lee Lai, @jesselonergan.bsky.social, Kayla E., @keezyyoung.bsky.social and @donyatodd.bsky.social. Online voting form here: www.brokenfrontier.com/introducing-... #BFAwards25

Review! How to Make Life Better When It Feels Like It’s Getting Worse – Fluffy is Back: A Tender, Timely Coming-of-Age Twenty Years on from Simone Lia @simonelia.bsky.social and @jonathancape.bsky.social. www.brokenfrontier.com/how-to-make-... Review by @lydiaturner97.bsky.social

Vote now in the Broken Frontier Awards 2025! Nominees for 'Best Colorist' are: @abscomics.bsky.social, @lgions.bsky.social, Dave Stewart, @javierrodriguez.bsky.social and @lookhappy.bsky.social. Online voting form here: www.brokenfrontier.com/introducing-... #BFAwards25

To be clear, generative "A.i." is theft and garbage for ANY kind of creative work. Do not use it. Your work will suck and people will laugh at you if you do.

Gouache on paper, June 2025

True words.

HUGE NEWS! Preview: Silent Pictures – Kevin O’Neill’s Final Books ‘Feartreland’ and ‘The Balaclava Kid’ Available from Knockabout and Gosh! Comics @goshcomics.bsky.social this Month. www.brokenfrontier.com/preview-sile... Check out some stunning art in this article!

I’m in good company in this list! I predict Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou will win, as it should be. 🙂

I’m in this - lend me your vote kind stranger? It’s an honour being on this list btw

Vote now in the Broken Frontier Awards 2025! Nominees for 'Best Letterer' are: @beccasee.bsky.social,Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, @letteringbear.bsky.social, @robjoneswrites.bsky.social and @ruswooton.bsky.social. Online voting form here: www.brokenfrontier.com/introducing-... #BFAwards25

Vote now in the Broken Frontier Awards 2025! Nominees for 'Best Colorist' are: @abscomics.bsky.social, @lgions.bsky.social, Dave Stewart, @javierrodriguez.bsky.social and @lookhappy.bsky.social. Online voting form here: www.brokenfrontier.com/introducing-... #BFAwards25

🚀 ELON MUSK: AMERICAN OLIGARCH by has been nominated for the 2025 @brokenfrontier.bsky.social Award for Best Writer 🚀 Congratulations Darryl! "An exceptional piece of work, right when we need it most.”—Alan Moore Order here: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/elon... ‪

With the world continuing its plummet into a netherworldly abyss, and the disappointment of seeing multiple UK indie creators this week expressing sentiments Comicsg*te would be proud of, I am taking some comfort in setting up some (free) Zoom mentoring calls for a handful of emerging artists.

For those that are interested, a newly printed authors edition is available to purchase on my website and at gosh comics!

Review! Lavender Clouds: Comics About Neurodivergence and Mental Health – @schnumn.bsky.social Bex Ollerton’s Collection of Short Strips is Beautifully Eloquent. From @andrewsmcmeel.bsky.social. www.brokenfrontier.com/lavender-clo...

I joined @brokenfrontier.bsky.social at the end of 2006 to review super-hero comics. This year will mark 20 years and a lot has changed since. Primarily I now own BF. And I have probably reviewed maybe one super-hero comic in the last several years. Exploring the comics universe and all that...

Review! Lavender Clouds: Comics About Neurodivergence and Mental Health – @schnumn.bsky.social Bex Ollerton’s Collection of Short Strips is Beautifully Eloquent. From @andrewsmcmeel.bsky.social. www.brokenfrontier.com/lavender-clo...

To resist oppression, and continue to protest for basic civil rights in the face of powerful authorities, is heroic. Every change begins with a small group of determined citizens. The future has not been decided yet, let’s make it better than the past. Let’s stick up for one another ✊

Self-publishers! If you're making comics railing against the horrors of the world around us in 2026 you are eligible for free advertising at Broken Frontier @brokenfrontier.bsky.social for your online store. My e-mail address is here for more details: www.brokenfrontier.com/contact-us/

This. We will happily offer this.

ICYMI Review at @brokenfrontier.bsky.social Samidoon: Comics for a Free Palestine – An International Community of Palestinian Artists and Their Allies Respond to Events in Gaza. Via @davidmariotte.bsky.social et al. www.brokenfrontier.com/samidoon-com... Also nominated in this year’s BF Awards.

This is a vetted fundraiser for the family of Renee Good, the woman who was killed by ICE in Minneapolis. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

Also, before I start focussing on more positive things today, a warning I am actively purging my timelines of the "oppressed people should be sitting down with their oppressors and trying to understand their point of view as to why they want to oppress them" people. Jog on.

Vote now in the Broken Frontier Awards 2025! Nominees for 'Best Publisher' are: @averyhill.bsky.social @dandq.bsky.social @fantagraphics.bsky.social @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social @selfmadehero.bsky.social. #BFAwards25 Online voting form here: www.brokenfrontier.com/introducing-...

Brilliant lineup of creators & comics. Vote for your ‘25 fav whilst marvelling at the wonderful array of comics 💖 www.brokenfrontier.com/introducing-...

Thank you @brokenfrontier.bsky.social for including YOUNG MEN IN LOVE: NEW ROMANCE in their nominations for Best Anthology for 2025. They also nominated @letteringbear.bsky.social for Best Letterer, who lettered the entirety of YMiL:NR!

MOTHER has been nominated for 3(!!) categories in the Broken Frontier Awards 2025 🤯 If you'd like to read my ~award nomimated~ comic you can grab it digitally and physically here! ko-fi.com/abscomics/shop

I'm excited, happy, and honored that Manga: A New History is included in this category 🙇

Amidst the ruins of a world burning down around us, chatting with the new #BF6toWatch is very cathartic.

This weekend I'm going to start on that folder of the pick of the review PDFs submitted for Thought Bubble coverage that I wanted to cover back then but ran out of time for.