Comics are like chess. There are a lot of moving parts w/deceptively simple rules that need to mesh w/o visible seams for everything to come together properly. Balloon order, panel order, leading the reader around the page, perspective, character vs. environment focus, and Actually Telling A Story.

A patch of oxeye daisies. One of my larger pieces, Oil pastel on A4 black paper (210 x 297mm or 8.3 x 11.7") Available to collectors and gift hunters on Folksy... folksy.com/find/item/85... #OriginalArt #Drawing #Painting #Artwork #GiftIdeas #ArtShop #SupportSmallBusiness #ChristmasGifts #bsnm

Great news, Travellers! My solo-journaling RPG is now available to buy & download! "It's Been A While" is a game of fantasy taverns - play as an innkeeper and follow the lives of the adventurers who cross your bar! Buy it now on @itch.io! chrislaumanson.itch.io/its-been-a-w... #ttrpg #fantasy

For what it’s worth, if I had endured months of harassment from tabloids and vicious rumors I would probably have a drink too. The whole thing is a crock, and Maya Imamori deserved support. Not this.

I would quite like someone to explain to me why, if I successfully did an objective stealthily in GTA Online, I then had to escape under a hail of gunfire. Do the enemies just magically know I'm there? I have a certain ability to suspend my disbelief, but this is a ridiculous failure of logic.

I think people underestimate the power that artists have. We can make you feel emotions without ever talking to you, we uplift the special moments in your life to unforgettable, transcendental moments, we make you laugh when you're sad, we remind you of the value of your happiness when you're not.

Fuckin hell, I just had an ad served to me for a big corporate software tool where their senior manager talking head was recorded with SO MUCH FUCKING SATURATION Who the hell did you employ in your sound team???

Friday Wristband Pick-Up for Ticket Holders! We have two spots in Harrogate where you can pick up your wristband on Friday 14 November if you'd like to, ahead of the usual weekend collection. Find times, full addresses and accessibility for Friday Pick-up here: thoughtbubblefestival.com/wristband

[at my second rodeo] listen up you ignorant sack of shit

Connor's always got such amazing ideas, and this is incredibly inspired!

Ani-Moe-tion, Day 8: UPA #simpsons #TheSimpsons #moevember #animoetion

Dungeness & Dragons

*Again* the top story on BBC 6 music is about immigration How is Shabana Mahmood wanting to introduce a ‘Danish style’ system for refugees the top story this morning?!? The obsession of 6 Music news on immigration and asylum is frankly bizarre

be nice plz 🥲🐢

I think one thing I'm learning as I'm making more drum and bass is that growl synths should be used like percussion. I think I also need to rid myself from the lyrical song-bases need to have a clear lead melody - I think what I want to do is lean more into layering and texture variance.

This keeps happening, over and over, in the US but also here. Publish something awful and delete it. Come out with a hideous, racist statement and follow up with ‘oh I didn’t mean it’. Hold press conferences where you pretend you don’t know anything about anything; obfuscate and lie and lie and lie

Cover for issue 39 is done!

So I basically have to show @jongraywb.bsky.social this before he discovers it himself because it's better to admit to a British Food Crime than to have one discovered

A new hedgehog drawing has been added to my shop. If you would like to give him a new home you will find him in my Folksy shop... folksy.com/find/item/85... #Hedgehog #AnimalArt #OriginalArt #Drawing #Painting #Artwork #GiftIdeas #ArtShop #ShopIndy #SupportSmallBusiness #ChristmasGifts #bsnm

Down to my last copy of The Great Comic Tree Anthology vol 1 So if you are after a copy act fast!! ko-fi.com/s/a6ac273b11

Seeing it written down in terms of service for an actual videogame pitching this as a feature, yeah it's nuts. "You can talk to the AI but only for entertainment purposes and sometimes it will say things that are offensive or wrong, but don't listen to it. Please interact with the cool feature!"

This is the facility that I and many others have been protesting. We’ve been hit, thrown, gassed, and shot with pepper bullets but none of that holds a candle to what is being done to people *in* the actual facility. Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.

quote with your night / dark #art 🌙 using this as an opportunity to show you both juicy bits from old comics, but also secret crop from new WIP comics

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

🔴 Alright folks, let's get comicking! Friday Art Stream is live now, and in a few minutes' time we'll be working on inks for my comic in next year's Comic Tree Anthology! Come watch me draw some Bad Gals over on Twitch right now! www.twitch.tv/MaoTheCat #art #illustration

I don't believe I've posted about this yet, and that's entirely my bad! In about a month's time we'll kick off with the introduction class for my online Comic Art course through ELVTR.🎇I'll be covering a lot of stuff, and have written new scripts for you! Sign ups open! uk.elvtr.com/course/comic...

I've needed more expensive dental treatment, so any sales from this would be super helpful to recoup some of the costs and immensely appreciated!

Right, I've done all my art admin, I'm gonna work on my music track for a bit to calm down after my online shop rage, and then at 1300 GMT we'll get another page of comic inks done, shall we? Stay tuned for Friday Art Stream!

Okay, I'm kind of pissed off that I had to delist Crafty Elven Scout from my Itch page because if I don't, Itch throws a fucking wobbly and whines about adult material and how the government's going to come get you for thinking impure thoughts.

Great news, Travellers! My solo-journaling RPG is now available to buy & download! "It's Been A While" is a game of fantasy taverns - play as an innkeeper and follow the lives of the adventurers who cross your bar! Buy it now on @itch.io! chrislaumanson.itch.io/its-been-a-w... #ttrpg #fantasy

Which one is more English?

Butter on your roll and sausage, y/n

I'm noodling around with doing a copyright-friendly Audrey Horne Mysteries, still, but I'm sort of hung up on the fact that the key aspect of it is that the Girl Detective/Wannabe Femme Fatale *needs* to be in over her head, and I don't think it'd be enjoyable if she constantly has to be rescued.

It’s a good ridiculous object! I did find the artist too kelseyshort.com/shop/shibari...

This stupid project has been a highlight of my life. At the risk of sounding almost sincere, being able to explore a pop culture staple in this format is incredibly fulfilling. It means a lot to me that anyone cares, never mind that they are actively supportive of it. Here’s to many more seasons.

Artist be like if I shift this line 0.05 cm to the left, increase overlay by 2%, and move this character’s head slightly by 3° will make a life changing difference that everyone notices

I genuinely can't take the snails in my garden seriously anymore since @slowedmountains.bsky.social showed me their Snail Shibari scarf.

Mountains and Seas – Song of Today 山海今 DECEMBER 2nd -6th @omnibustheatre.bsky.social www.omnibus-clapham.org/mountains-an... (And I realised not very many in people in theatre talk like this anymore but it was all the rage once, kids, honest it was 😜) “Compassion means rage as well.”

Black magic 2018 Ink on paper 2 1/2 days left to get 38% off originals!

It is *obscene* that that beast wearing the skin of a man called Elon Musk was just awarded a trillion dollar pay-package after he personally signed the death warrant of hundreds of thousands of innocents earlier this year.

I am 100% That Guy™ who will attempt to make small talk, partially because of my own social anxiety, but also because I genuinely am interested in being nice. I'll say hello, I'll say thank you, I'll make an observation about whatever I'm buying or the shop or whatever.

Hey folks! Today's plan is: art admin and music in the morning, then in the afternoon we'll work on more comic inks on Friday Art Stream. See you there!

Tonight's sketchy sketch from Drink 'n' Draw: Calico Hagon, an old RPG character I designed when I was like, sixteen or thereabouts, as you can probably tell from her... Everything.

Well, this is all somewhat troubling.

Tonight's sketchy sketch from Drink 'n' Draw: Calico Hagon, an old RPG character I designed when I was like, sixteen or thereabouts, as you can probably tell from her... Everything.

Just did art & layout for "HILLBILLY HEROES", a bite-sized #ttrpg by @lordsomtnorotr.bsky.social - here's a look at the cover piece! I love it when I get to go full cartoon ape-sausage on a drawing. This is the kind of lo-fi chaos I live for!

I was very happy to contribute to a|state. Check it out!

Hey folks, I’m happy to announce that as of today, all physical and digital rewards for Kid Eastwood the Movie have shipped!! For UK backers, you should have your books by the middle of next week at the latest, and for US backers, you should have yours in the next 2-3 weeks.

....... Fuckin hell