I need anybody who has joyfully and willingly used generative AI to know that they aren't allowed to complain about the heatwave lol.

Had fun participating in @pseudonymjones.bsky.social’s Terrible Comic Day and reading everyone’s comics on #makeaterriblecomicday2026

I love this quote by Ira Glass. I think about it often. "But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer." <- Read the whole quote but this I love.

thank you for your mandatory participation! Please note that the hashtag for this year is #makeaterriblecomicday2026 which you can already find filling up with comics!

I made a terrible comic for Make A Terrible Comic Day #makeaterriblecomicday2026

My statement on Ai from the mini-comic as syllabus i made for new class I'm teaching that starts tomorrow! It robs you of your decisions & struggles - and the joy of being surprised. We won’t to be robbed of our learning - this is essential. This & the full mini at post: bsky.app/profile/nsou...

Fist bump to anyone else caught between the need to bow down & accept the dire, broken reality of the attention economy to continue surviving via their creativity & a desire to disconnect which becomes more vast, and more potentially vital to their sense of inner peace, with every year that passes.

When digital art programs came out there were those who insisted digital art wasn't art. I think that's what AI ppl hear when I say images made by generators aren't art. But they are intentionally disregarding the essential element here, which is fucking humanity. A human being creating something.

Started listening back to past episodes of @thingsbydan.co.uk’s podcast this week, and hopeful the lantern begins to glow that little bit brighter.

You used to be able to google the time of the sunset, and Google would give you the exact time right on top every single time. Thankfully, with artificial intelligence, you can now ask Google what time the sun will set and it will conveniently tell you "I don't know."

some important internet history herein

Some people are downplaying this as "just using it for storyboards" I don't know how to break it to you, but we already have a means to make those, its called storyboard artists and you pay them a wage. I cannot stomach how little some artists will think of other artists and their livelihoods.

I love how no matter how skilled you are as an artist the beginning stage of a painting always looks incoherent

I'm a huge proponent of the idea that we need boredom and we need to learn to enjoy it. Just existing with nothing so stimulating it stops a wandering mind or captures you're attention. Genuine think it's one of the most important things we've lost to tech, yet it's a huge help to mental wellbeing

Doing a piece for Team Cul De Sac to auction off at HeroesCon for the Michael J Fox Parkinson’s Foundation. It’s going to be big. Calvin is about the size of my hand.

Local librarian is having a tough day

Nothing is more depressing than watching young artists give other young artists advice like “only use one colour palette in everything you do to have a more recognizable brand” and “draw everything with a target audience in mind”

I hate it here.

Doodles are baby masterpieces, Son.

In space no one can hear you dream. #webcomics #comicsky

It's Mental Health Awareness Week in the UK and we have an entire Broken Frontier comics list dedicated to the subject on our Resource Lists page here: www.brokenfrontier.com/resource-lis... Do check it out! #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek

Being an artist means you’re drawing daily for hours while wishing you had time to draw

This is a very good thread about AI.

Birch fox 🤙

"Where Claude Went Wrong" "Some More Of Claude's Greatest Mistakes" "What Is This "Claude" Thing Anyway" "Well That About Wraps It Up For Claude"

Happy birthday, Dad. Wish you were here. You’d know what to do. Or at least you’d know what to write. ❤️

Stop measuring your right to create by how "good" you are today.

Local artist hasn't had coffee yet.

This is not wrong.

Rattlesnake but instead of a rattle it's a theremin and it makes sci-fi sounds at you.

kiss me, you're beautiful - these are truly the last days

“It is vital that pilot and co-pilot maintain open communication at all times.”

✦ Shudder ✦

"No more shoes?" "Nope. AI all day." "What does that mean?" "It's AI. It's in everything. It's the future. So we're the future." "What does your AI do?" "Multi-modal agentic self-supervised latent-space singularity." "You don't know what that means, do you?" "No." "Here's a billion dollars."

Princess Mononoke

The Brush Bearer ep.8 : Page 1/4

O B S E S S E D

The brush bearer, monday mood.

THIS. The vast majority of the insights I depend on as a writer (and digital artist) have arrived as a byproduct, usually serendipitously, of the “grunt work.” There is NO Quick Easy Trick into the mastery of craft. Anyone claiming otherwise is lying, and likely also trying to sell you something.

I bought this pen recently and I really love this pen

If you can't stop yourself from making comics, then you should make the comics which make you happy and that you want to read. If you can stop yourself from making comics, you should. Get a proper job. Then use your spare time to make the comics that make you happy and that you want to read.

Old one, but apropo

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

I keep seeing "all authors use AI, the real issue is they're being forced to be sneaky about it" headlines. Full stop No. This is a lie peddled for normalization. It's schoolyard-level pressure tactics "C'mon, all the cool kids are already doing it. We won't tell. It's fine. We're on your side."

Mackenzie Crook’s magical suburban folk tale, #SmallProphets published by #PenguinBooks and #PuffinBooks down the years. A 🧵 1/

Local artist reacts to their to do list.

Heating oil prices are sky-rocketing around the world. The Nordics have understood the risks of using fossil fuels for heating early on and transitioned away from heating oil almost entirely whilst phasing in heat pumps.

see? here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared