Me asking for another deadline extension

SHMF turned 10 this week, which is mad! For a more earnest reflection on it do check out my instagram @superhappymatty if you fancy. Cheers 🍄

Think I loved everything about Hollow Knight apart from playing the game

Trevor TO THE MAX

Wading through AI slop on Pinterest like that grandma in the acid lake in Dante's Peak

Come draw Super Happy stuff! 🍄

5yo borrowed this book from the local library. Read it at bedtime and I'm not sure who enjoyed it more 😅 Great buddy comedy between a #crab and a #prawn, lots of nice facts thrown in. The images are gorgeous and full of so many details and hidden surprises. Can't recommend it enough!! #rockpool

Apple did a great job making the Pencil Pro as slippery as possible

Anyone here draw on iPad? Are you using paper-like / glass screen protectors or raw dogging it? I need answers

Anyone here draw on iPad? Are you using paper-like / glass screen protectors or raw dogging it? I need answers

New one from me, out October 2nd. CROAKY: ESCAPE FROM CROW CASTLE. Pre-order NOW, and if you do it TODAY at Waterstones.com you can get 25% off with the code SUMMER25. But only until midnight tonight. Sorry for the late notice 😅

Last day of the Waterstones pre-order promotion (31 July) 🐺

🔥🌟⚔️ HERO SLAM, a brand new card game, is out VERY SOON! 🔥🌟⚔️ Venture through the enchanted forest, gather a team of heroes, and defeat the Great Evil! But beware, your heroes will fall foul of dangerous sidequests, magical imps, even each other, as you battle to keep them alive!

Private Eye hits the nail on the head

Well, didn't expect that 😅 Super Happy Magic Forest is an AWARD-WINNING TV show! We scooped Best Digital Children's Content at the Broadcast Digital Awards 2025 last night. This show had amazing humans making it. I'm endlessly grateful to them 🍄

Awards night ✨️

Me waiting for a dragon to appear in Tears Of The Kingdom

Was in a Y2 class this week doing a drawing workshop and two kids started fighting. Started with clawing at each other's faces and ended with them both holding chairs and using them to jab and parry. I was halfway through drawing a pixie.

Bruce, a retelling of Jaws from shark’s perspective (1/4) #comics

Excellent work Nich 🙌🙌🙌 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I've got a week of school workshops coming up, can anyone recommend any remedies to look after my tender vocal chords? They're going to be cooked by day 3

Took up studying just so I could listen to lo-fi

The boss just stormed into my studio, declared "regular Mario Kart breaks all day today" and then left. Wow

This was a challenge but I'm glad I did it. College age kids (based on this TINY sample) don't say much or give much away. One just got up and left 10 minutes in (💀) but another stayed after to chat further and show me their own animations which were honestly better than anything I made at college.

Just picked up my Nintendo Switch, opened my front door, and drop-kicked it into the street

About to go and talk to a media studies class at the local 6th form college. Really hope they think I'm cool 💀

The UK government misled the public in the AI & copyright consultation. This calls the legitimacy of the consultation into question. 1/🧵

False equivalence all over this. Comparing generative AI to other modes of expression that society was slow to accept doesn't fly when those new movements weren't built on creative theft. 🚮

Topsy and Tim books were wild

I fell behind on my SHMF episode previews and tbh I can't be bothered to catch up. Still doing them daily on Insta if you're interested (@superhappymatty) All episodes of the Super Happy Magic Forest TV show are on iPlayer now. Please check em out! 🍄

Episode 31: Magic Mess Blossom is tasked with recycling a magical artefact but instead dumps it in a ravine in the hope that nobody will notice. This triggers a mist that sweeps the forest and magically transforms anyone it touches 😵‍💫 Watch on iPlayer now and CBBC at 4.30pm 🍄

Episode 30: Three Wishes The heroes quest to find a magical wishing trident in the hope that it will stop Lady Tamara from summoning a ferocious two-headed dragon. They just need to make sure all the wishes are still intact before the big showdown 😬 Watch it on iPlayer now 🍄

Episode 29: Elf Help When the Riddlemaster's new hat gives him the power to control the Council Of Happiness, the heroes must quest to the Wood Elf Wood to ask for help. But they can only get it by being on their best behaviour... Watch on iPlayer now and CBBC at 4.30pm 🍄

Episode 27: The Merhaven Song Contest. After the Super Happy Magic Forest sponge supply runs dry, the heroes must quest to Merhaven to get some - but end up awakening a monster of the deep. Watch on iPlayer now or CBBC at 4.30pm.

New episodes of Super Happy Magic Forest are on iPlayer now and on CBBC weekdays at 4.30pm. I'll be doing full episode previews on my insta (same name) and shorter ones here. First up is episode 27: Spiky Trevor! Trevor emerges from a cactus patch feeling more powerful than ever.

Some spreads from the second Croaky book Quest for the Legendary Berry, out now! 🐸

Some spreads from the second Croaky book Quest for the Legendary Berry, out now! 🐸

So happy to share the gorgeous artwork for my next novel When There Are Wolves Again, coming Oct 2025 🐺 @arcadiabooks.bsky.social have done me proud! And huge thanks to @runalongwomble.bsky.social for hosting the cover reveal today: www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/4/...

If you're in Oxford, go see my bro talk epic fantasy 🤗

Shout out to the folks protesting the unlawful use of copyrighted material at Meta offices today in London. For those at home, signing this petition is a way to show your support 👊 chng.it/CsGJWDP6yb

If copyright law was as unclear as they want us to believe then these AI firms wouldn't be desperate to change it. We are being stitched up.

This amusing early chapter book from @oxfordchildrens.bsky.social is full of brightly coloured illustrations and tales of adventure drawn and written by @superhappymatty.bsky.social. Croaky and the Woggle Scouts are off on a quest to prove that Winston's Grandpa really discovered the Gemosaurus...

I ❤️ World Book Day.

Hey! I had a new book out today. Croaky: Caverns of the Gemosaurus is available now! Here's a photo of me with the book. Just out of shot is a crowd of people cheering and clapping.

A message to the UK government: please respect our copyright 🙏 #MakeItFair #HandsOffOurCopyright 1/2

Last call for this, and you don't have to answer everything. Especially not the questions which try to get you to respond to an already unfair premise, eg "Should our burglars wipe their feet before entering your house?" Just be clear you don't want any burglars at all.

I was featured in Anglia Ruskin University's alumni magazine last month 👇