We name EVERYTHING DEAD & DYING by @tatebrombal.bsky.social, @thatjacobphillips.bsky.social, Pip Martin & Aditya Bidikar, & published by @imagecomics.com, one of the Best Comics of 2025. Listen to #TheStampies (Part One) to hear our other faves from the year: cbccpodcast.podbean.com/e/the-stampi...

Want to read about some great comics this Christmas Eve? Well, you can, as I handed out awards to my favorite comics of 2025, including @beetlemoses.bsky.social, @zandercannon.bsky.social's Sleep, @nickdragotta.bsky.social and @iamdavidbrothers.com Good Devils: Don't Play Fair With Evil, and more.

Hindi writer Vinod Kumar Shukla passed away a couple of days ago, and Chaar Phool Hain Aur Duniya Hai – a wonderful documentary about him – seems to now be available to watch for free on YouTube. It's a powerful portrait of stillness, and well worth a watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM6q...

Following up on that last repost, the reason why "ffi" is sometimes a single character in typefaces is that it's what's called a ligature, in which characters are merged to make them look better on the page, as seen here:

Absolutely confounded by critics I respect calling 2025 a bad year for films, and then I look at their end-of-the-year lists, and I realise that they mean English-language films.

I wrote about the Best TV Shows of 2025. seantcollins.com/2025/12/the-...

Officially done with lettering work for the year! 😎 (This is not including the logo I'm doing for a friend's game, or the font I'm making for my own book, but shhhhh, let me have this.)

Today, I'm handing out SKTCHD AWRDS to 25 of my favorite Comics of 2025, ranging from @beetlemoses.bsky.social and Hirayasumi to Lil' Burgers and Good Devils: Don't Play Fair with Evil. This piece is open to non-subscribers.

Got some film scans back today. I really enjoy the mirror portrait genre, as you can tell.

No offense but if your best of 2025 list doesn’t include Sleep, it is wrong and you are wrong

Three pages of lettering work left for the year!

I loved this conversation between Neeraj Ghaywan and Martin Scorcese about Homebound (h/t @adityab.net) #desisky www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u8T...

More and more it's becoming clear that capitalists don't actually understand what "work" is.

A little tribute to Rob Reiner I drew

Final newsletter of the year is out – this is a big one, with updates, looking forward to next year, thoughts on work and film. Lots of stuff. www.adityab.net/2025-11-wrap...

The BIG NEWS is out! I'm taking over the retitled NEW TITANS with #33 in March, and I am joined by the INCREDIBLE Sami Basri on interiors with @muaadib.bsky.social on covers. New members, new villains, NEW STORIES!!

Everything Dead & Dying #4 is OUT TODAY!!! Thanks to everyone who’s picked one up 💫 Created by the amazing @tatebrombal.bsky.social @thatjacobphillips.bsky.social @adityab.net @readtinyonion.bsky.social @imagecomics.com

EVERYTHING DEAD & DYING #4 is out today from @imagecomics.com with this beautiful @tozo.today cover!

I don't think I'd realised quite how many recent fantasy romances are just rewritten fanfics. Weird.

Good piece! We go through a very similar compositional training process in Indian English-medium schools, and I tend to side-eye most "AI writes like this" statements because so many of us write like this.

NEW SPIELBERG youtu.be/UFe6NRgoXCM?...

You know what I need in my life? A 2025 upgrade of Understanding Comics – the same formal analysis for laypeople, but 30 years on, with everything we've figured out since.

little painting of my grandma's backyard

I enjoyed THE MASTERMIND, but then in the last 5 minutes, they just go, by the way guys, in case you didn't get it, this guy is Richard Nixon, okay? and that rather spoiled it for me.

Now that I’m nearing the end of my first longform writing project, I regret to say that “Write regularly. Finish things. Edit ruthlessly.” is in fact the comprehensive writing advice I refused to believe it was. Everything else is only useful once you learn this.

i saw Ella McCay so YOU DONT HAVE TO: defector.com/everything-i...

Thanks to Drew Friedman I can no longer think of Buddy Rich without thinking of this:

Jon Babcock’s hand lettering from Marvel’s RUINS #1 (1995). 2/2

As promised to my fellow lettering nerds: Check this out! I am now the proud (humbled, honored) owner of all of legendary letterer, Jon Babcock’s hand lettered vellum overlays from Marvel’s RUINS #1 from 1995! Thank you, Jon!!! 1/1

NOROI (2005, dir. Kōji Shiraishi) One of my all time favorite horror movies of mine - and now one of my favorite 2025 drawings, too!

Lookit the killer art Stipan is doing for our Vertigo series Bleeding Hearts.

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This guy must have been preparing answers for the inevitable “your grandpa was the country’s most famous fascist” question and then the boss is like “it’s why we wanted to hire you”

The house alters subtly, whenever you glance away. The airing room reflects the sunlight from too many windows.

An executive threatened me with legal action because I shared my own drawings of characters from an original show they canned!!

Pneumonia has hit me hard. Over the past two months, I've lost almost $20k of work, and by the time we get to January, I'll only have three projects left. Editors/writers/artists/publishers: if you're staffing new projects over the coming months, PLEASE keep me in mind as your letterer 🙏

Great movie!

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

I like whatever is wrong with my algorithm over there

This passage shocked me to my core. The loss of biodiversity isn't a tragic accident or oversight, it was the plan!

Issue #35 of our newsletter is out, ft. The Pricks in The Hand, Sandwichpunk, Kilmarnock Infirmary, M.A.S.K., The Lion in Winter, and fresh instructions for contacting Santa.

#PudgyHorse Lascaux Tribute 2. A companion piece to the first, following one of the other cave horses with a darker colour morph. Again, painted with pigments made by Mary Sanche from Cretaceous rocks from the Albertan badlands. From 2020. #ArtAdventCalendar

I wrote the latest installment of TRUE WEIRD, “An Encounter with the Michigan Dogman” — you can get it in RED BOOK 3, out from @readtinyonion.bsky.social / @darkhorse.com December 24th. collaborating with @oliveoilcorp.bsky.social was a dream!! and @adityab.net crushed it on letters, as usual!

I've discussed ZOOTOPIA many times with people who like it but find themselves uneasy about the implied racial allegory of predator and prey animals etc., and I continue to tell them that's the wrong lens – it's not a metaphor, it's FURRY ROLEPLAY.

NOW ON FOC! DEPARTMENT OF TRUTH #35 Lee Harvey Oswald has unleashed the Department of Truth’s agents to bring in Cole Turner by any means necessary. Caged by nightmares, Cole chooses the devil he knows…the Star-Faced Man. Plus: Scott Snyder and Joshua Hixson conclude their history-making Elvis epic!

I haven’t been able to form a sentence in like 10 minutes

not the top-voted reply, but this is a hilarious way to troll white people