Here's a high art jam comic from 2016 when we were at an event in York. Every panel ICONIC.

Notice the limitation - this only applies to the @ Grok X account, not the ‘Grok Imagine’ tool which is where the full nudes and hardcore video are being generated. Media - be sure you ask about Grok Imagine specifically.

About to nuke the Paper Jam twitter account. Some nice stuff in there, like that time a couple of years back where we were trading actual comics for pictures of cats or batman:

Trying to sort out photos of drawings I've liked. Here's a sample 4. A #Hexham #urbansketch and a #concertinapad done in the same style. Plus some #traxongpaper #lifedrawing and a #zinefair #minicomic I aim for more in 2026.

Click through to see loads more TREASURE. Absolutely corking cover designs.

in a refreshing change of pace, both bandcamp and games workshop announced this week that they've banned AI to varying extents. these stances are crucial during a time when AI is being rammed down our throats at every turn, and some people are starting to accept it

Offer still available in incredible new year sale. Also we've got a new comic, keep an eye out for launch details soon.

this, from West Ham's Freddie Potts, is the single worst "five famous people you'd invite to dinner" I've ever seen

I am calling for a complete and total boycott of the Mercator projection in all news stories about Greenland until every member of the American public has seen this

The Bridge Tavern in #Newcastle makes an appearance in this week's @2000ad.bsky.social

"Like Icarus, have you ever flown too close to the sun?" "I've been to the sun and it was fine."

Funding now on kickstarter! You like Scooby Doo? You like RPGs? You like fun? Then check this out! Loads of new art by me and a great new game from Bloat Games. Please like, share, and spread the word ❤️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/eri...

THE TRUCE HURTS (1948)

Artificial Unintelligence: the government is in full retreat over copyright, and the attempts to make it look dignified only make it funnier. My SKETCH. thecritic.co.uk/arti...

@louisereeve1.bsky.social yoooo, it's me, I'm on bluesky also

GenAI companies keep claiming the books and copyrighted works their programed were "trained" on without permission didn't retain complete copies in their systems. This was a lie. These companies may now face for even more liability for violating copyrights. 1/ www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Use Oxo, not this Rock Band to liven up your Shepherd's Pie in 2004

Curse of Private Equity. Vets under pressure to increase revenue, Six companies control 60% of the UK's pet-care market Prices up by 63% between 2016 and 2023. Vets pressurised to meet financial targets by offering costly tests and treatment options. Govts do nothing. Now handing the NHS to PE.

NEW: The Palantirisation of the UK military is a national security disaster. Peter Thiel is now the third wheel in the US-UK ‘special relationship’. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Anyone using any RSS reader (I presume browser extensions) they'd recommend? Am looking to go back to The Old Ways.

Classicsfest 2026 seeking treatments for 30min play about Greek/Roman cookery at @alphabettitheatre.bsky.social - see www.culturednortheast.co.uk/p/a-tasty-ro... and www.cinziahardy.co.uk/classicsfest...

If you're looking for some kind of rock-like constancy in this alarming and uncertain world, then why not buy a copy of the new issue of Viz? It's in the shops today, it was in the shops yesterday, and it will still be there tomorrow.

Rewatched The Holdovers. Still excellent. Is it a 'Christmas film'? Didn't see it mentioned in much xmas film chat. I suppose it is: important to the plot to be set then, does have *some* of the xmas film type themes, but.. hmm... doesn't quite feel it. A good 'new year film' maybe.

Labour defends Trump.

As Tees Valley mayor Lord Houchen's defence of his deal with local businessmen crumbles, here's the Eye's recent special report on how Britain's flagship regeneration scheme secretly turned into one of the biggest giveaways of public money on record. ➡️ www.private-eye.co.uk/special-repo...

On #WorldQuittersDay, what have you been giving up? Has the New Year Resolution started dipping? Well... If it was to 'write more', then I can help you get back on track! www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B... Here's a prompt for every day of the year... #amwriting #writingcommunity

rules for life

X is now permitting archive downloads again, so am currently wiping my account with CYD - which kind of automates manually deleting individual tweets, and you can WATCH it - so am watching over a decade of nonsense flash before my eyes vanishing into the air. Having FEELINGS.

Pictures that explain things Contour lines Artist: Ronald Lampitt (Understanding Map, 1967)

Chicken & bacon bacon bacon

Skimming through my twitter archive before obliterating it all, may save a few bits and bobs for posterity. Here, probably my only real achievement of 2022.

Would you like an award-winning mash up of news and pop culture to deal with the current shitshow that the world is in? Well you’re in luck as a BRAND NEW series of #TheSkewer starts tonight 11.15 on BBC Radio 4. Also BBC Sounds. Enjoy.

Great piece on great telly. I watched it maybe 15 years ago via arduously-obtained imported DVDs - but now it's on ITVX! You can just watch it! Amazing. Luxuriantly imaginative teatime 80s fantasy-action fare pushing the 'family' tag surprisingly far with weirdo folky occult elements!

Don't know what exactly I'd define this aesthetic as but marauding semi-sentient zombies + motorbikes + loads of mud (look at the floor! brilliant!) feels fresh and v metal.

I feel I cannot stress enough how 'AI' products serve, intentionally or not, to reestablish the control of a very small group of people over language and expression, a new form of digital boot. One hopes the proliferation of open models may push back on this. Or the Butlerian Jihad. Either way.

This short turned 69 and holds a special place in my heart, as it was one of the first LT cartoons I ever saw. Stan Freberg’s singing alongside Shorty Rogers’ composition, makes it one heck of a catchy short and is hard not to tap your feet along. Cartoon: "Three Little Bops" (1957, Friz Freleng)

Also enjoying PENELOPE GRITSTOP, BASIL SALTY, and SIR ANDY FLURRY

Just checking with how Starmer's crusade to ban apps that produce deep fakes is going

Writers! If you're in/near North Tyneside, the first North Tyneside Writers' Circle of 2026 is on Saturday 17th January, 1000-1200, North Shields Library. www.facebook.com/events/85991... Hopefully see you there! #amwriting #writerslife #writingcommunity

Delightful, obviously, but that 2D 3D animation style is fascinating - it's like Paddington is just more... REAL... than anything else.

Tell me we should trust AI to give us the facts. Tell me it's a future we can put our faith in. Come at me. I'm right here, waiting.

Making beans on toast singing 'beans on toast' to the tune of 'Girls On Film'

He said, 'Well, talk to yourself if you like, but don't scold yourself, because you don't deserve it.'

Oof, that’s a brutal decline data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflo...

Update: yesssssssss. Minesweeper + dungeon crawl = Dragonsweeper. Super game (free, can be played in-browser), using logic & tactics - great sudoku-ish fun, learning the secrets of the different enemies gives it surprising depth, & achievements: surprising longevity! danielben.itch.io/dragonsweeper

YESSSSS danielben.itch.io/dragonsweeper

Given that all the moons of Uranus (except Belinda) are named after characters from Shakespeare, I propose that S/2025 U1 should be called "Bottom".

Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.