Europe is going to build camp where they will concentrate undesirables before getting rid of them. I wonder if there's a term for that? This is no different than the MAGA plan for White supremacy. The EU can pretend it's better all it wants. It is not.

We're back again today, only slightly boiling! This event is free to attend and is on until 3pm - see you there!

THIS SUNDAY IN BRIGHTON! Come and see me for smiles, chat and maybe more... By which I mean art and comics. I will NOT get off with you.

Pre-orders are now open for Two Shillings a Day, out in July! (Or earlier if all goes well) I’m at #Brighton Open Market today with this zine excerpt

Come to Brighton tomorrow (Sunday): cool your feet in the sea, refresh your imagination with a market full of comics, and whet your whistle if it's dry… perfect #comics #art #cartoons day out PLEASE SHARE - look at those eager cartoonists’ names… you want to make them happy, don’t you?

Are you telling me that not a single trailer exists for Iron Boy/Le Corset, the animated film that just won a big prize at Cannes? In the year of our lord 2026?

Everyone is (rightly) clowning on the Book of Life guy for getting in bed with the AI crowd, but there's a danger that the dopamine hit of outrage overwhelms good news. Like, I've seen dozens of posts about Gutierrez and only one or two about this. We need to be as loud about the good as the bad.

Last night’s 1st online roundtable (This Mess Won't Fix Itself: COMICS CREATORS) was a big success! Great discussion, fantastic suggestions & a surprising amount of enthusiasm despite the infernal heatwave. Thanks to all who participated! 💚 (esp @petermorey.bsky.social who produced this beauty👇)

TONIGHT! Join us, won’t you?

A week tomorrow… On Sunday May 31st Cartoon County is going to takeover all the stalls in Brighton Open Market - come an meet more than two dozen cartoonists, comic makers and artists

The Colossive machine is moving into top gear: four events in three countries in the next eight days Scream if you wanna go faster!

In just 2 weeks’ time I’ll be back where it all began, the @workersgallery.bsky.social - celebrating the launch of my graphic novel Noisy Valley. Come along on the 29th to celebrate! Would be so great to see you there (it’s “pay as you wish”) www.workersgallery.co.uk/event-detail...

Important reading if you haven't seen it already!

Let's talk about YOU, shall we? As in the collective "YOU": the people who make comics, who filled in the UK Comics Creators Survey - ukcomicscreators.org.uk I hope you’re hungry for charts, because lunch is served! WHO ARE YOU? 🧵

Are you an LGBTQ+ support organisation? No matter where you're based, we want to donate copies of our trans anthology When I Was Me to you & your community members! Non-UK-based orgs just need to cover postage. Please get in touch with us via email! 🐉 More about WIWM: quindriepress.com/books/p/wiwm

💴💰💵 Thinking of crowdfunding your comics? This is tonight! Ben Cullis of @the77publications.bsky.social shares how to create, run and manage your Kickstarter campaign successfully Get your ticket here: societyofauthors.org/event/fundin... Part of @societyofauthors.bsky.social Funding Week

We've joined forces with the Writers' Guild of Great Britain to issue urgent new guidance outlining measures authors can take to protect themselves against scams. Download the guide on our website. buff.ly/qOhFz8q

Gird your loins, it’s ROUNDTABLIN’ TIME! 🗣️ Following publication of the UK Comics Creators Research Report, we’ll be holding a series of 3 online roundtable discussions to chew over the findings and plot out next steps. They’re entitled “This Mess Won’t Fix Itself” because I was in a feisty mood.

a week on Sunday (so May 31st) come meet @colossive.com @daniellocke.bsky.social @danbellcomics.bsky.social @frasergeesin.bsky.social @grthink.bsky.social @streakofpith.bsky.social @lucysullivan.bsky.social @marxtafford.bsky.social @trumpton.bsky.social @myfanwytristram.bsky.social and many more

Wes Streeting is an earless bulb.

Tonight @elizafricker.bsky.social - author, illustrator & owner of the tiniest wee dog you ever saw - will be launching her new book COULD TRY HARDER: An Illustrated Journey Through an Undiagnosed Autistic Adolescence at @goshcomics.bsky.social Free tix here! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

Is there another video conferencing platform that allows breakout rooms? I only know of Zoom and Teams

Pete interviewed me for his excellent book Drawn To Extinction, all about comics in the face of encroaching AI, and I think it will be right up the street of approx 9/10 of you on here…

Photos from last nights #britishbookawards: Nominees @rickardsisters.com for This Slavery with Emma Hayley of @selfmadehero.bsky.social, plus @paulcornell.bsky.social & @rachaelsmith.bsky.social for Who Killed Nessie; and judges me, @karriefransman.bsky.social @shanazir.bsky.social

Using your winning platform to uplift all of comics? That is pure class 👏 #britishbookawards #nibbies

Heyo #Brighton, if you’re around on Monday 18th, @zebko.bsky.social & I are talking about our new graphic novels at @waterstones.bsky.social with @panelborders.bsky.social. Would love to see you for drinks, crisps & chat: www.waterstones.com/events/carto... @cartooncounty.bsky.social

Essential reading; sensational work. (And wait until you get to the 'average income of a comic book creator working in traditional publishing compared to the market's sales value' part. Go on. I'll be waiting. With a large pint of Absinthe.)

🔥The results of the UK Comics Creators Survey 2025 are in 🔥 STATS! Come get yer STATS! Fresh juicy STATS! ukcomicscreators.org.uk/wp-content/u...

This extremely stylish visualisation was done by Julie Brunet @datacitron.bsky.social, by the way. (Sorry, I would’ve tagged but I missed that she was on here!)

If I was a publisher I'd start up a comics imprint and proudly call it Improper Books.

Happy launch-day to the magnificent @myfanwytristram.bsky.social - I can’t wait to read all the protest stories in the Noisy Valley! See you at @goshcomics.bsky.social

For anyone who doesn’t have a subscription to the Bookseller, the article is based on this report which launched today: ukcomicscreators.org.uk/wp-content/u...

A full quarter of comics creators are in the same full-time employment boat! Toss that imposter syndrome overboard 🌊

🔥The results of the UK Comics Creators Survey 2025 are in 🔥 STATS! Come get yer STATS! Fresh juicy STATS! ukcomicscreators.org.uk/wp-content/u...

Right, now the radio stuff is out of the way, onto business...

Me too! Pop us in your ears later for some comics chat

I've just been given the go-ahead to share the new comic I made with @jgarciaiglesias.bsky.social about his research! "What Does HIV Mean?" 1/2

That is straight up publishing snobbery and I do not like it one bit. You don’t deserve to benefit from this zeitgeist until you do a full-throated Tarzan yell of the word ‘comics’.

The schedule for this year's @beyondbookfest.bsky.social in #Brighton is up! Featuring a panel of #comics makers: @streakofpith.bsky.social, Ian Williams the Bad Doctor, @andyrileyish.bsky.social, Rhys Wootton, and me! We'll be discussing comics' unique power when it comes to storytelling.

Can I interrupt you all for a super quick brain pick? Are there any tasks in comics creation for which people could conceivably use AI as a tool for assistance which would be minimal enough that it wouldn’t diminish the creativity/authenticity of the final work?

Orbán's electoral crushing is a far greater achievement than most people outside Hungary realise. He systemically consolidated power for 16 years, fixed the electoral map, abused govt power for political purposes & censored media. The hurdles that Hungarians overcame for this moment were immense.

Comics artists! You’re all doing this, right?? If you’ve got any work published in something with an ISBN or ISSN, register with this payback scheme and simply receive free money later in the year. It is that simple. Do it! Love you.x

Sincerely hope you’re not sick of me and my stats already because there’s a whole lot more where this came from

It's not a like-for-like comparison, but the median for traditionally published comics creators in the UK is between £5,000-£10,000. (Prob much closer to the lower end of that bracket TBH) Only 11% earn over £20,000, meaning 89% earn well under national minimum wage.

London’s Queer Comic Fair is back with a WHOLE WEEKEND of queer comics joy this September 26th and 27th 2026. Double the comic fair fun! Entry is FREE. We’re family friendly so bring all your friends. Tell everyone! Get excited! inQ! is BACK! [Poster by the brilliant @kitsuneart.bsky.social]

Translation takes years of expertise and experience to accurately understand and reinterpret meaning into an entirely different culture. Using AI instead will a) be shit and b) takes paid work from specialists, making their existence less viable. Scab behaviour.

Lads lads lads there's a kids comics pop up at Waterstones Piccadilly, don't know how long it's up for but it looks incredible! (And you might spot Loki there in the "not quite comics but almost" section!) www.instagram.com/p/DV6Os5jDRD...

"If I was to use ChatGPT for my designs rather than our designer Sean, that's taking money out of the local area into the hands of a multibillionaire ... removing value from the local community and local artists [and] into the hands of some of the richest people in the world." #AIslop #refuseresist

A few years ago I learned that to a highly financialised state (eg the UK), a person in debt is considered far more valuable than a person just working and paying taxes. After reading that, suddenly every government policy made much more sense…

Labour taking this as a clear sign that people want more fash in 3…2…1…