Please use this snake oil, we’ve bought truckloads of it!

New illustration for @currentaffairs.bsky.social! The Banal Horror of Jimmy Fallon. A topic close to my heart. Really enjoyed trying to capture a kind of Lynchian dread with the stage curtains and spotlight.

Our Scottish Greens 2026 Manifesto is out! So much great stuff in here, could not be prouder of our party - a beautiful roadmap to a fairer, kinder and greener Scotland greens.scot/Manifesto

Reposting this seeing as today is #portfolioday

🚨 I'm currently open for illustration work! Finished a couple of big projects and now have a semi-free schedule for a few weeks. If you're an AD, please get in touch! 🎨 My portfolio: tomhumberstone.com 🧵 But I'm going to post some work below too... I love illustrating pop culture:

Table applications are now open for Sequential Scotland 2026! We can’t wait to see what everyone’s been up to! Apply here docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

don't focus on making it pretty or anatomically perfect or as detailed as possible. just focus on communicating your ideas! the most important parts of comics imo are pacing/timing, and getting the point across legibly, not beauty. beauty is a choice you can make, certainly, but it's just extras

Comics are hard, take ages, no-one respects them, they barely make you any money, and you should still make them.

Jordi Lafebre: ‘I try to make the reader forget that they are reading a comic book’ interview by Aug Stone www.tcj.com/an-interview...

London’s Queer Comic Fair is back with a WHOLE WEEKEND of queer comics joy this September 26th and 27th 2026. Double the comic fair fun! Entry is FREE. We’re family friendly so bring all your friends. Tell everyone! Get excited! inQ! is BACK! [Poster by the brilliant @kitsuneart.bsky.social]

Cassie Zoom: a character without a story. I'd love to draw a high-octane racing comic sprinkled with a little Speed Racer, Venus Wars and Redline energy. I've just got to write it. Maybe a zine first.

So excited to reveal to everyone the absolutely incredible 2026 poster created by @mortiscausa.bsky.social 😍 We can't wait to welcome you all back to the DoubleTree this August to celebrate everything sequential and small press!

A few of the fantastic speakers at Trans Pride today: "Our liberation is bound up with every person who's ever been told their body, their land, their life doesn't matter" - Q Manivannan Also pictured: Esme Houston; Sister Alaska Lott; Guiders Against Trans Exclusion 🩵🩷🤍 #transrights #edinburgh

📢 THE 404 INK BURSARY FOR UK-BASED SMALL PRESSES NOW OPEN Applications are now open for our bursary to support small presses in the UK. There are 2 strands you can apply for: donating £1,000 towards creative projects, or £500 towards hosting an intern. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

There's a whole generation of UK comics self-publishers who are probably totally unaware how much they and the scene owe to those influential 2000s/2010s small press anthologies like SOLIPSISTIC POP, DIRTY ROTTEN COMICS, TEAM GIRL COMIC and TINY PENCIL. We stand on the shoulders of giants.

If people want to see the slides from that talk, here's a link: shorturl.at/D7vjr It's not the actual talk, but I think there's some useful info and fun nonsense in there.

thinking a lot about the excellent talk @tomhumberstone.com gave at TAGS last year on AI and Luddism. his talk was based on his excellent comic I'M A LUDDITE, which you can buy here! tomhumberstone.itch.io/im-a-luddite

How’s it going with Palantir? Last week Health Services Journal revealed that almost a third of the NHS trusts using Palantir’s platform “were not meeting minimum data security standards”: https://goodlaw.social/aeok

Great thread and excellent newsletter worth subscribing to…

No oil means no electricity. No electricity means no water pumps. No running water means no sanitation. No power for hospitals. No fuel for ambulances. No refrigeration for drugs. Mass death soon follows. This is a crime against humanity.

The first chapter of Rhizomatic Compound is now completed and we are currently looking into collaborating with a publisher and expanding the scope of our game. If you know anyone in the industry who might be interested, please get in contact! Pls wishlist if u havent already!

"Generative AI is an existential threat to the arts and creativity, an environmental disaster-in-the-making, and an oppressive, anti-worker tool. This list explores the many strands of the issues raised by theft-tech." Our new AI "Art" resource list is here: www.brokenfrontier.com/resource-lis...

ICYMI and you’re looking for a quick weekend read - my latest newsletter is about the importance of art in times of crisis and why fascists love AI slop.

Decided to upload digital copies of my zines, comics, and poetry comics to itch.io You can get them all for £4 each here: tomhumberstone.itch.io

this made me cry in a good way

I'm currently running a sale on my store for the duration of March, 20% off your order using the discount code 03SALE26. www.willtempest.com/shop

💙 SCOTTISH COMIC CREATORS! 💙 Submit your comic to the Scottish Comics Itch Bundle, which will go up for sale later this summer! 25% of profits will go to charities aiding Palestine and the rest will be split among creators. More info in the thread below! 🔗 Submit comics: forms.gle/n7BzZWwJPqm9...

This is an Art Attack. A new newsletter discussing art at the end of the world, trench and plague art, memento mori, the danger of a frozen culture, and reading too much into the 28 Years Later sequels. Read it here: grave-offerings.ghost.io/this-is-an-a...

My hairdresser and friend opened her business last week. Tonight it burned to the ground. This is devastating. I’ve set up a fundraiser. If you haven’t done anything for international women’s day yet, here’s a chance to support a women-run business in need: www.paypal.com/pools/c/9nhn...

THIS. If you’re in central Glasgow tonight please close your windows; if you have to be out please wear the best mask you have available. If you can smell it, you’re at risk.

"Everything is politics...You don't get to make art in a fascist state" CMAT delivering, mar is gnách. 👏 (Same goes for sport btw) #Speirgorm

Like clockwork, the conversation about keeping "politics out of sport" has resurfaced. This time because some American athletes haven't been super pumped to represent a country that executes it's citizens on the street. I made a comic about this back in 2018: thenib.com/politics-in-...

In the latest issue of @currentaffairs.bsky.social magazine, I’ve illustrated a piece about influential political folk musician, and radical left hottie, Phil Ochs. The article is about something close to my heart - a defence of political specificity and topicality in art.

Now watch Ireland thrive and become world leader in the arts. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Diary comics thread for hourly comics day ✏️ intro/9am #hourlycomicday #MEcfs #ChronicIllness

the idea that making art is embarrassing if you don't do it well enough to make a career out of it is an objectively harmful and toxic brainworm.

Since #bbclaurak is trending, let’s remind ourselves that ONE MONTH ago, the BBC invited Mandelson on for a soft-ball interview on her show. While HIS CLIENT , Palantir’s Louis Moseley appeared as a pundit Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’ 1/

This tells you if your local NHS is using Palantir, and provides you with an email template to speak against it. Takes seconds. Share and sign.

Oracles by @zebko.bsky.social is currently funding on Kickstarter! It’s one of the most beautiful and moving books we’ve ever made. Back it here! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ave...

'the UK creative industries — which contributed £125 billion to the economy in 2024 and supported 2.4 million jobs — are being destroyed by an AI sector that... contributed just £11 billion in the same year and supported only 85,000 jobs." www.thetimes.com/culture/film...

"They must not know how to use the Child Porn, Psychosis and Scam Generator. It's the only explanation for why nobody's using the Child Porn, Psychosis and Scam Generator. Free training for all in the appropriate use of the Child Porn, Psychosis and Scam Generator. Twenty minutes should do it."

Calling transphobia a 'gateway drug' to the far right undersells it. It's pure accelerant. Grimly fascinating to guess what crankery becomes any famous transphobe's secondary obsession, cos they all have one: 15 minute cities are fascism! Grok noncing is cool! ICE are good! We should kill all dogs!

If you make poetry comics, published or self-published, this is worth applying to!

Every artist wishes they could go back in time to deliver a swat to the back of their own head and say, “Don't do that!” None of this is universal, but here is a protips thread of some things I (and many of my peers) would try to stop ourselves from doing.

Just got my hands on this beautiful poetry comic by @chrissywilliams.bsky.social and @tomhumberstone.com. It's wonderfully written and illustrated and it's an artifact that cries out to be treasured and studied thanks to the way the art engages with it's printing process.

Really chuffed to see I Know The Way Out by me and @chrissywilliams.bsky.social in this @brokenfrontier.bsky.social list of 2025 Small Press Comics. If you'd like to buy a copy, you can get it online here: tomhumberstone.com/shop/i-know-...

Boycott Microsoft, Boycott XBox www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybj1...

Rockstar now claims it was, in fact, the leaking of “specific game features from upcoming and unannounced titles” that led to the firings. We’re going to have to see the company prove this in an employment tribunal & more than that, it’ll need to prove it for all 31 fired employees in the UK too.

If your choice is between an existential risk to your organisation, vs being a fascist collaborator, and you make the difficult choice to be a collaborator... ...then you are still a collaborator.