Special shout out to @stupidmonster.bsky.social who’s new book Mighty Mega Pets is out NOW and it is AMAZING 💖

MIGHTY MEGA PETS by Gary Northfield @stupidmonster.bsky.social - a bunch of pets get superpowers in this gloriously funny, silly, exciting and generally joyous graphic novel. A book that made a friend enquire what I was reading because I was laughing out loud so hard. Just an absolute delight. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Dear Mr. Clegg I have started a business, selling the contents of your house I knew when I launched I did not have legal access your house Without this access my company will not be profitable Others have told me I have a flawed business model, but I disagree Please advise how I should proceed

This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?

Aha! Jim Medway proving himself to be not just a fantastic cartoonist but also a fantastic human being. medicalaidforpalestinians.enthuse.com/pf/jim-medway

Thank you to everyone who has signed the petition which now stands at 15,000+! You can #DoTheWriteThing & stop #MetaBookTheives by adding your signature here✒️ authr.uk/sp40

All my Julius zebra books are in there, the thieving bastards.

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Already well thumbed, with thanks @wrdmag.bsky.social @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social. Julius Zebra's latest adventure, this time in Ancient China. An absurdly comic piece of fiction studded with fascinating historical facts. Gary Northfield @stupidmonster.bsky.social always has us howling.

Oh hey that’s my quote. Incidentally I spent Saturday writing my speech for London Book Fair. I’m chuffed with how it turned out. It mostly covers how children’s comics were abandoned by publishers in the 90s/00s, and in doing so we lost a generation of readers. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

Had a brilliant #worldbookday, fantastic, jolly upbeat teachers and kids, 110% effort in costumes all round too! Such a life-affirming day :) A visiting parent (who was also a teacher) asked me in reception if I was an author, because I looked like one! 🥸 I’ve no idea what that means!

The word you’re looking for is “stolen”, not ‘given away’

The Government is siding with big tech over British creativity. Today is the FINAL chance to respond to their consultation on AI and copyright. Let's make sure creators' voices are heard. Guidance below 👇 #MakeItFair #PayTheCreator www.alcs.co.uk/news/your-ri...

Every major UK newspaper - left, right, broadsheet, tabloid - is running a front page campaign against copyright carveouts for AI training. I can't remember the last time any political cause had such broad support, let alone one so anti-big tech and so economically consequential.

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We have 4 RIOTOUSLY FUNNY copies of #JuliusZebra #CommotionInAncientChina by @stupidmonster.bsky.social to #win! If you crave an action-packed adventure full of illustrated silliness with Julius & friends in Ancient China… Repost & Follow by Feb 21 to enter @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social #WRDMagComp

Top of this week's "Who gives a sh*t?" news. "Why we're selling family castle after 700 years" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Find Gary at @stupidmonster.bsky.social

YO COMICS EXHIBITOR! Gary Northfield has been writing and drawing comics since 2002. He is most famous for Derek the Sheep - which appeared in The Beano. He has also created many jolly comics for The Phoenix, National Geographic Kids magazine, The Dandy, and Horrible Histories magazine.

I assume I’m the billionth person to notice that Zuckerberg looks more like Beaker every day.

How can there be so many people in the world who want others to suffer?

Sure is a bad time to be a person who cares about things.

Hector Ayala, the White Tiger, by George Perez

The ONE THING the UK punches above its weight at is the creative industries. Every move either party has made in the last 15 years has been to wreck them.

See also this @danfrancis02.bsky.social Hardworking artists and writers are having their IP stolen by the AI industry and the Labour Government is handing it them on a plate. There is an online consultation, but it is deliberate gobbledygook and impenetrable management speak.

This is so depressing. We are sleepwalking into a disaster for the arts. Theft and laziness is being normalised and our professions undermined. @danfrancis02.bsky.social Please have a word!

Didn't have to read too much of the consultation to realise it is merely window dressing; a government wanting to be seen as doing the right thing while it has already decided to do the wrong thing.

Small press comics, pals! Check this out!

News! Yo Comics! – New South London Comics Fair for Kids and By Kids Launches March 23rd, 2025. And please give @yocomicsfair.bsky.social a follow! #comicscommunity www.brokenfrontier.com/yo-comics-ne...

🚀 Yo Comics Fair is gooooo! We are excited to announce that a brand new comic fair, FOR kids and BY kids, is happening at South London's on March 23rd 2025! Woo hoo! Keep your eyeballs glued to our Insta and Bluesky (we're @yocomicsfair) for more exciting announcements! #comicfair #Londonevents

#uksnow DA17 0/10 after the coldest day ever, boring flipping rain :( something is broken.

We're burning the planet for a technology that has so far mainly produced mediocre animation clips and terrible student essays

Anyway, AI has already stolen friends’ work, and is going to put other people out of work. I do not think a political party that claims to be the party of workers in this country should be using it. Even for just a silly joke.

Daily reminder that the underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.

Why the fuck are there LED screens everywhere? Were we not using enough rare earth by just putting up posters? Anyone serious about climate change needs to be using fewer screens— and yet we’re plastering this shit over everything like suicidal muppets running off a cliff

On the left, my image. On the right, the Al image that was clearly trained on, and designed to plagiarize, my image. All Al generated imagery is inherently theft. It's unethical, environmentally disastrous, and does irreparable harm to both artists and society.

"Sorry, we can't make this technology that sucks and nobody wants and that uses enough power to blow up the moon unless we *also* steal people's shit to throw into our content woodchipper in order to produce mediocre digital particleboard out of the cumulative artbarf." futurism.com/the-byte/ope...

The wording made me so angry. To me it was deliberately impenetrable to stave off us poor creatives being used and abused.

cool, shut it down

Today, the UK government announced a proposal to change copyright law - for the benefit of AI companies - that would cause huge, irreversible harm to creators. More info below, but most importantly here's what you can do (wherever you live): 1. Email your MP. Template letter in 🧵 👇 1/10

Just filled this in. by which I mean I wrote the same answer in each box. "Total copyright protection. It's not hard." Please join me if you're not a thief.

This is useful - doesn't work 100% but definitely helps (thank you @jongraywb.bsky.social) bsky.app/profile/jong...

Getting reference images for drawing (hairstyles, cars, how a carpenter holds a saw ... whatever) now seems to show from 1 in 4 to 1 in 10 AI slop. AI is pollution. www.garenewing.co.uk/rainboworchi...

Found this Facebook post from eight years ago. Check out the prices of vinyl back then in Sainsburys! Lucky to pay less than double these prices now. #vinyl

This article is so on the nail: www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

And all those @stupidmonster.bsky.social Julius Zebras! 😍

My cartoon for Tuesday's Metro

This made me laugh. Curb levels of embarrassment. heawood.substack.com/p/why-scotla...