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With every fibre of my being, let me say this in a loud, clear, booming voice: this should have happened when Virginia Giuffre was alive to see it.

Was Grotbags a Wicked?

Happy 12-year anniversary to my favourite broadcast subtitle mistake And a happy year of the whores to you all

Strip mining your deceased loved ones for content

Yesterday in the morning my sweetie read me the gormenghast scene at Nannie Slagg’s grave, and in the evening said that Steerpike has nightmares where he is Alistair

I wrote a little memory about the brilliant PanelxPanel magazine from Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou - www.patreon.com/posts/150853... Go buy all the issues and rejoice. Also: crazy to see @denizcamp.bsky.social writing about BEAUTIFUL CANVAS by me and @sami-kivela.bsky.social in the first PxP issue.

oh look its that thing that trans people have been saying for ages 🙄

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.

Issue #44 of our newsletter is out now, ft. Virginia Woolf, Absolute Batman, early Charlie Brooker, questions in parliament, dogshit for dinner, Zoë Skoulding and more. We regret to inform you that it's yet another belter! mindless-ones.ghost.io/forever-alte...

As ever, all our music on Bandcamp is free if you're skint.

the TV equivalent of printing lorem ipsum in the newspaper

The really gross subtext of this is that Rowling seems genuinely surprised by the idea that a foreign country could contain lots of people who are in the Innately Good grouping of her own weird deterministic system rather than Innately Evil.

Hey, new and returning folks! Please take a second to do this. It makes the site so much better for everyone and also you will get a lot more engagement and reposts if you do this ♥️

My short experimental film (Untitled)2025 screens in the London Short Film Festival. It is an evocative incantation to trans and non-binary ancestors forgotten because of land theft, colonisation and enforced binary genders which damage us all. www.shortfilms.org.uk/programme/pa...

An excellent comic! I wrote an introduction for the collected edition, and said a few words about Briggs' previous work here.

More Glasgow, in the evening this time www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/crossings-...

It’s so good to be an adult and let yourself feel joy

Glasgow, come hang out with us and think cruising as creative practice! Register by 15 January. tockify.com/sgsah/detail...

Horrible, but a great thread 💖

Still rereading Copra, in the run-up to the final tpb (which I've not read yet). Every issue has at least one page that's the coolest drawing you've ever seen, which is nice. I like this one

Currently 2/3 of the way through my Invisibles case study!!! I'm so close to the end of this book but still got so much to do, so I'm in my cave for January and February 🏜️

Created this magical hypersigil in a Keith Haring style (realising I can make sigils in any style is a far-too-late realisation 😂)

Needed some warm up for 2026 so I've been fucking about a bit

hearing jacob's talk about bisexual cinema at sqiff several years ago was sooo influential to my thinking and rly opened my eyes to the limits and possibilities of bisexual representation in art–i'm excited to get his book and you should get it too!!

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-...

Cool

Speaking on behalf of the Weird Aunt community, Shane and people like him often forget the importance of Weird Aunts in the child rearing economy

Any other UK comics creators get the pyramid scheme Gloucester comic con invitation? Pay us £100 and you get ten tickets for the con to resell? Pay deposit at a dodgy link, official phone number is a mobile number for voice mails only?

Fussy wears, more ribbons Dipping pen

This is a bit of a tangent, but it gets back to the point eventually I promise. One vid I enjoy that periodically pops up on my Insta feed is a Ryu cosplayer picking up an Emma Frost cosplayer at a con. Ryu has a bit of a dad bod, receding hairline, and is barely over 5 feet. Emma towers over him.

Issue #38 of our newsletter isnout now, ft. Andrew & Steven, Eyes Wide Shut, Frankenstein, mair battletech, mair Bowie, a basic but heartfelt end of year list ("IT’S SO GOOD"), The Ballad of Peckham Rye and more! mindless-ones.ghost.io/into-my-life...

You shall have a fucking queen!!

Weyyyyy

New episode: Spice World (1997) Listen: linktr.ee/onceuponavhs “Will you turn that bloody racket down?” Time for some Girl Power! Who said anything about Space Ghettos? #spicegirls #spiceworld

happy xmas we did an imo very good THE SHINING episode!!!! ❄️🏨🗻👯‍♀️📄🔪🐻🩸

I switched to Qobuz with no problem. They pay artists 5 x more and don't have a sociopathic CEO. #FuckSpotify

The Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics is looking for book reviewers. https://downthetubes.net/journal-of-graphic-novels-and-comics-seeks-reviewers/

for the @crackmagazine.bsky.social end of year issue, i wrote about a wave of artists connecting with tradition and ancestral knowledge – featuring insight from tristwych y fenywod, muco, quinie and more! rly enjoyed working on this piece 🔮 crackmagazine.net/article/long...

I made an Instagram post about the Levy recommendations. It’s long, so I’ve only put a few slides on here. As always, there are organisations better placed than me to respond @transactualuk.bsky.social @transsolidarity.bsky.social @goodlawproject.bsky.social www.instagram.com/p/DSchXjZDPe...

Gave myself fifteen minutes to have a go at trying some more battleaxe drawings, this time in coloured pencil. Imagining they’ve collided in the aisles of the local supermarket, stocking up on Croft Original, Consulate & York Fruits & having a sound grouse about shared acquaintances & each other

Day 18 of #ResearchAdvent - Inspiration Queer a Graphic History by Meg-John Barker & illustrated by my pal @julesscheele.bsky.social inspired me to get into graphic social science. Managed to get little bits of drawing into my work. Recently applied for a related opportunity so 🤞 for that.

Men doing milquetoast acoustic covers of songs from Wicked should be in PRISON - you already took ‘Dancing On My Own’ from us you villains!!

My Bluesky wrapped being not at all surprising in terms of who I've engaged with the most lol - with @hrfmichael.bsky.social obviously at the top of the chart 💖✨

Issue #36 of our newsletter is out now, ft. Santa vs. Christmas, Die Hard, Comic Relief, Whichmen?, The Hand that wipes the arse of the world, Toonies and more! "You’ve got a life, stay in it."

Something surprises me in this newsletter at least once a week and I help put the damned thing together.

So horrible.

Day 12 of #ResearchAdvent - Thinkers This blog post from @notrightruth.bsky.social is one of those pieces of writing that captures what many of us were thinking, presenting & progressing it beautifully. Its one of the best reflections on our community responses. ruthpearce.net/2025/09/25/r...

Happy birthday to Ben Browder. 🥳😏😍

This is the first Best of 2025 list I've seen ORLA! appear on thus far, so huge thanks to The Beat for the shout-out, and for the very kind review. And the list as a whole is such a great reminder of how many top notch comics we've been treated to this past year.