Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope. Yes, THAT Pope.

The first issue of @jockbsky.bsky.social's beyond-epic sci-fi event, GONE🚀, is free to read this week (and this week only)! Join Abi on her voyage across the stars, stowaway-ed on a massive luxury ship as she attempts to get back home🪐 Read here 👉 neonichiban.com/carousels/fr...

I'll be at the Thought Bubble comic art convention this next weekend, 15 and 16 November in Harrogate, North Yorkshire. This is where you can find me. When I'm not here I'm either portfolio reviewing at A1/A2 OR on the Conflict In Comics panel with Garth Ennis 3-4pm Saturday in 1, the Queen's Suite.

I guess I need to apologize to the writers of Alien: Prometheus. it turns out scientists really do touch everything like that

Listen, if you’re in the UK and you can get to this, get to this. One of the few comics conventions that is STILL about comics, stunning location, just a great time.

Seriously! If there's a piece of mine you like and want to use commercially licencing is an option. There are some images I can't resell but many I can! And it's far cheaper than custom work. I can't speak for other artists but I'm sure many feel the same!

Day 310: Drawing animals I've never seen in person like a 400CE monk If there's an object or living thing you think I don't know much about, and you'd like to see me draw it very badly and then kind of okay, sound off in the comments baby

It's our final week and we need your help to get us over the line! Back our book, spread the word, if you have an active campaign going yourself - maybe give us a shout-out, we'd really appreciate it! www.kickstarter.com/projects/phi...

How to write for men.

How to beat the mould this winter.

Illustration done several years ago, for an artbook.

Happy Halloween, summon responsibly 🖤

It’s still remarkable that Disney produced - and released - this segment in 1940. A horror short that should rank with its Universal monster movie contemporaries… The animation is lush and experimental, and really shows off the Disney special animated effects team…

Happy International Animation Day. Bring new life into the world, cherish it, then abandon it like a god.

It's International Animation Day. Animation professionals, quote this with something you worked on. Here's an episode of Sarah & Duck I wrote ten years ago. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

From a crewmember on yesterday's Teal 74 mission into now-Category 5 Hurricane #Melissa. As clear of an eye as you will see in the Atlantic basin.

Sketches from the Travelbook 2024

Set up at MCM London today and this weekend at table A21 in artist alley. I've got books, prints, cards, pins, all sorts. Looking forward to seeing old friends and new. See you there x

It’s hard to accurately explain how much danger America is in right now without sounding hysterical.

I challenged myself to paint this at A3 size, which is huge for me! medium: Schmincke Horadam gouache

www.thoughtbubblefestival.com/programme/tb... This year there's going to be accessible and inclusive portfolio reviews at the Thought Bubble comic convention, with the artist guests. These are for absolutely anyone who makes comics from kids to professionals. You should take advantage... Thread. 1/?

I love Guillermo del Toro calling ages 19 to 29 "sublime confusion"

"Tears of the Mountain", the 3rd 2025 graduation short from french Gobelins school, is online. Directed by Luke Ashworth, Yehor Bondarenko, Alp Kurdoğlu, Romane Talva and Ange Yajima. Full film >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB9J...

Absolutely epic thread. He was a former head teacher of the secondary school I went to. Just an old picture on a wall with the other former heads. No post-nominals. No fuss made. I expect now all this is known the school would make a bigger deal of him. It's the kind of school that would.

"If you believe, as Ellison does, that Americans will be better off when they are subjected to 'supervision at all times,' then buying microvideo platforms, enterprise software, streaming services, cable networks, gaming developers, & internet publishers is just buying supervision capacity."

Alongside being involved with the portfolio , I’m also on the Batman panel at @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social alongside legends @jockbsky.bsky.social and Declan Shalvey. Talking not just Gotham but the jump from artist to writer.

Goal: To stop having dream jobs. Obstacle:

Machines wait.

As someone with experience on both sides of the fence here (a cartoonist without enough time to do all they’d wish, and someone who recently tried to get others to fill out a survey and was surprised by who didn’t) I encourage anyone UK-based who hasn’t yet done so to get on this asap!

I don't qualify for a COVID booster this year due to tightened restrictions but have found a local pharmacy who'll do one privately... for just over £100 🙃 Cheeky little October tarot reading, anyone? Find out more here: materiamagica.carrd.co#tarot Get yer reading here: ko-fi.com/ellamcco/com...

"You're gonna need a bigger bookshelf" The Very Hungry Great White Shark is available now! www.lulu.com/shop/happy-t...

Seconding this post. Please keep calling and mailing. ESPECIALLY if you're in Germany. If Germany flips to opposed, with how the current shakeup is looking, chatcontrol is dead in the water once again.

We all love the obvious graphic power of a monumental, centered image on a double-page spread, but artists, please, heed the words of someone who's been doing this for a long time: if your work will EVER be published in book format, the entire concept of designing a DPS this way is off the table.

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/

I cannot tell you how many parents I met across the last few events who said that comics started their kids reading. Just comics. It’s the one thing that worked. 🫡

I hope all comics people with sequentials to show take advantage of this, because sometimes it's that little nudge, bit of validation or concise observation by another pair of eyes that makes a breakthrough. I asked Steve Wacker if it was worth me bothering to make comics. He said yes. It was enough

Always worth looking at how an artist approaches his script. Here's Gibbons' annotation for Watchmen's panel 1.

Little hand drawn animation and banjo theme I made. It's been a year since my brother's passing, it's hard to type stuff so l'll just let the video speak for itself. Thank you for watching. Keep going, enjoy the sandwiches.

I'm a guest at the Lakes International Comic Art Festival this next weekend. It's my first time there and I'm looking forward to meeting people. I've got a signing with La Belle Adventure on the Sunday at 11am and a spotlight panel with @lucysullivan.bsky.social on Sunday at 2.30pm. See you there?

I'm Rob, an illustrator, designer, and writer from the UK. With a background in graphic design, I now spend my time drawing spaceships, robots, and other strange stuff - either for myself or for indie games and publishers. 1/n

The iconic character - from the iconic artist! The Judge Dredd Art of Jock releases in October, available in hardback or webshop-exclusive slipcase editions! Pre-order now: bit.ly/3TmGLSn

When the kids were little, for a few years, my mother-in-law would take my wife and kids, and my sister-in-law and her kids, on holiday for a week in Benidorm. So I'd be home alone. And I'm often up in the night with what I call "My pains" I have Palindromic arthritis...

Next weekend!! with Lucy Sullivan. See you there!

I used to work a place that had a wearhouse with lights that worked off of movement sensors. To be clear. You couldn't turn the lights on or off. They came on when they sensed movement and went off when movement stopped...

Events on Earth getting on your nerves this month? @nsousanis.bsky.social offers some more distant bodies of evidence worth contemplating. 🔭

"If you’re on the sidelines you’ve made a choice and must live with it. Their goal is to instill fear, to make you feel helpless, hopeless, to break you down. Don’t let them. Educate yourself. Organize. Speak truth to authority. Because the story’s not written — the pen is in your hand."

I know we all hate to log into LinkedIn, but you might wanna do to opt out of this 😘

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