It is bonkers how busy this year has been... I keep on preparing to beat myself up about how behind I am on [X thing] only to be shocked into sense by reminding myself just how much has happened/continues to happen in 2025 personally and professionally 😵

Maintaining a diversity of ongoing personal projects is important because it enables you to procrastinate on one by aimlessly tinkering with another, thereby creating the possibility that you'll finish one of them by accident.

Losing everyone to keep a transphobe. Was it worth it, Polari Prize? The community believes in solidarity among us, even if you don't.

Here's a breath of fresh air. Glasgow's chronic air pollution was one of the earliest issues I raised when I was first elected. I was always clear that we'd never crack it until there was bold action on the most polluting vehicles. Delighted to welcome this success. news.stv.tv/west-central...

I can finally say BUUZA!! is going to be PUBLISHED BY ABRAMS BOOKS! I've had to keep this under wraps for SO LONG, but the Pre-Order links went up today, so it's official!! BUUZA!! Vol. 1: Good Morning Salwa will be available in the USA on 14th April 2026! www.abramsbooks.com/product/good...

Up late correcting someone Wrong on the Internet (they loftily informed a Scottish person that P1 = Reception, actually, when in reality it's a lot more complicated than that for age-you-start-school reasons) and forcefully stopped by my screen time restrictions cutting me off several paragraphs in

I struggled to get started with attacks on @artfight.net this year, but the 2 pieces I did complete, I got EXTREMELY absorbed in. And I've kept my slightly-over-50% battle ratio! ✌️#sharemyattack2025 OCs: the elegant Geneviéve by docholligay on tumblr & the adorable Subu by @marineteeth.bsky.social

Less than 10 hours to go!!! Send your comics to us before midnight tonight to be considered for the 2025 awards: selkieawards.org/2025

⚠️BATCH DOWNLOAD YOUR GOOGLE DRIVE NOW⚠️ 👉 takeout.google.com/manage I did this last night, and literally this morning a friend who writes fic has had her whole account restricted, and when I try to access writing that I've edited/collaborated on, this is what I get:

Just a few more days until the deadline! Have you submitted your comic yet? 👀

Some artfight attacks on @caragaffney.com's Hannah and mumuverse's Ae'ris! #artfight2025

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BACK FOR ROUND 2

🦭 The Selkie Awards are back for our second year! 🦭 If you're based in Scotland and finished a comic in the past year, we want to hear from you! Our applications are now open until 31 July. Check out the details here: selkieawards.org/2025 #scottishcomics #scottishcomicbookday #smallpress

🗣️ I LOVE BIRDING

Went out and saw a play today and dang, thinking about stagecraft always scratches the same place in my brain that thinking about comics does

You know how there is this repeated phenomenon of very left wing, working class politicians sending their kids to posh schools where the kids grow up to be wildly conservative? It feels like the Labour Party is this phenomenon writ large, and I don't see how it can possibly be redeemed at this point

This is so brazenly counter to reality I can hardly believe it

Not to be unkind, but I am so impatient about the “what’s the point of making my little zines/comics/crafts/art when the world is on fire” sentiments. I get it, but saving the world is not a responsibility shouldered by your art! That’s what being a neighbor, a friend, and hell, a citizen is for!!!

the best comic artists know when to phone it in

making comics is not about drawing everything perfectly. its about drawing things somewhat and psychologically tricking your readers to fill in the blanks for you so you have to do less work

🗣️ I LOVE WRITING

I'm back at the blogging! This time I'm digging into The Power Fantasy by Kieron Gillen and Caspar Wijngaard, and spending way too many words on gender: caragaffney.com/posts/2025-0...

I'm back at the blogging! This time I'm digging into The Power Fantasy by Kieron Gillen and Caspar Wijngaard, and spending way too many words on gender: caragaffney.com/posts/2025-0...

Yes, mistakes were made: repeatedly delaying the Bill and indulging transphobic backbenchers, after a clear promise to act as long ago as the 2016 election, allowed anti-trans prejudice to grow and fester. If they'd legislated quickly, the sky would not have fallen in, and we'd all have moved on.

Ok ok one last repost....... so happy that this is resonating with people!

happy #WebcomicDay y'all! I make HANS VOGEL IS DEAD, which is an antifascist fairy tale about a dead WWII pilot on a journey through the afterlife to undo the fascism he embraced in life. Updates Thursdays! www.hansvogelisdead.com

It's #WebcomicDay! Feels like an appropriate time to share my blog about abandoned webcomics, and why they're so important: caragaffney.com/posts/2025-0...

There's been more but this is the first one that always occurs to me........ I love Sayonara Wild Hearts

Just had a very good and nice birthday 😌😌😌 never underestimate the restorative properties of having a good time with pals

For anyone not keyed into maternity issues: things remain extremely dire. Just look at this article and what a review of the "least worried about" services in England uncovered www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Whilst the Prime minister of the UK is busily throwing transgender people under a bus and pretending that it's to 'protect women' his government are busily cutting the maternity service budget for NHS England from £95 million in 2024-25 to just £2 million in 2025-26. rcm.org.uk/media-releas...

I shared some of my favourite meat-free recipes on my blog! Also included: a general review of Gousto as a service in case anyone's been considering trying recipe boxes caragaffney.com/posts/2025-0...

Joy and defiance at the cabaret for trans rights in Glasgow. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💚🏳️‍⚧️ Powerful speeches from Cllr @hollybruce.bsky.social, @irisduane.bsky.social and Cllr Elaine Gallagher. The @scottishgreens.org will ALWAYS stand for and with the trans community.

I'm going to the Glasgow demonstration tomorrow at least for a couple of hours - anyone else heading out?

I finished the Outer Wilds base game last week (only six years late)! I've shared my extremely spoilery thoughts on my blog: caragaffney.com/posts/2025-0...

Be amazing if £1.5m could be invested in the UK comics scene, wouldn’t it? Someone’d need to build a fully-costed, well-reasoned argument to DCMS for such a thing first, I guess… WELL, NOW. Come see what your friends at CCIC have done! www.thecomicsculturalimpactcollective.org/CCIC%20DCMS%...

They've already blocked GRC reform, now they're gutting the legal power of a GRC? This is so genuinely frightening, I can't understand how things have gotten this bad this fast.

I finished the Outer Wilds base game last week (only six years late)! I've shared my extremely spoilery thoughts on my blog: caragaffney.com/posts/2025-0...

Genuinely didn't see any of the reactionary stuff happening r.e. asexuality yesterday but now that I've been made aware of it, you all have to compensate me by reading my (very personal) blog about my ace experiences

A wee blog for International Asexuality Day about some of the harder parts about being a-spec caragaffney.com/posts/2025-0...

Checking the date on this one like please say first of April please say first of April please say first of April--- www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...

Very funny that Showcases on Pokemon Go decide the winner based on how big a given Pokemon is compared to its species average nowadays, instead of how big it is compared to the others entered into the contest. I just won the Biggest Bug competition at the Botanics with a Joltik

Are there any comic sites that shares articles other than reviews/news these days while @wwacomics.bsky.social is (hopefully not permanently) on hiatus? I've got an essay about webcomics based on an old viral tweet of mine that I thought might be worth finding a home for other than my wee blog

I'm going to try doing a blog on my website! Going for something very low-key to start with: Why I'm Not Making Comics Anymore (Clickbait) caragaffney.com/blog

I'm going to try doing a blog on my website! Going for something very low-key to start with: Why I'm Not Making Comics Anymore (Clickbait) caragaffney.com/blog

Look at this ABSOLUTE UNIT that my dad took some photos of this weekend

Here's what I include at the bottom of every freelance invoice I send - and I've cashed in on this! Know your rights as a freelancer! The full text is in the alt.

Deadline is midnight tonight!!