📚 World Book Day is in a few weeks time, but FROM TODAY children can choose their own book FREE with a £1/€1.50 book token - including this exclusive BUNNY VS MONKEY book! Tokens are available through schools, some magazines, McDonalds Happy Meal boxes, or digital tokens from worldbookday.com

@rikkisimons.bsky.social my 6yo drew GIR and thought you might like it 😀 (I doodled the dog suit head, he did the rest)

I have heard these books are really good

It's Valentine's Day later this week. My wife and I've been together for 18 years now so I feel qualified to say this for you young lovers out there: Do nice stuff with each other throughout the year and Valentine's becomes irrelevant. Save money and hassle, just let it float past you each year 😀

Were 90s kids clamoring for a Batman cartoon with 1930s Art Deco aesthetics? Is that what the market demanded? Or did some really smart creative people have a vision and make a genre-defining hit that sustained 20 years of TV shows? If you want success look for vision, not just metrics.

The “P” in POV stands for “Penis”.

Tutorials BOOKS are coming to KICKSTARTER on a SECRET DATE in MARCH - the SECRET LAUNCH MAILING LIST will open up ONE LAST TIME very soon, stay tuuuuned!!!! #anime #manga #howtothinkwhenyoudraw

My youngest seems to have gone back to being obsessed with Peppa Pig. Peppa is a right prick

I keep coming back to this, as it's comedy perfection.

While we're discussing the first issue of D'ORC (out today!), here's a fun fact: I hand lettered the D'ORC logo. Brett Bean now owns the original art.

they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit

What in the uncanny valley hell is this?

International friends who have tabled at UK cons in the past and do not have British citizenship - what kind of visa did you apply for? Tourist or a work visa? Asking for a friend - all help appreciated!

Does anyone have any tips/process on how to isolate line art for scanned traditional pieces in Procreate? The photoshop process I've got a macro for seems a bit glitchy/hit and miss

Return of the King on the big screen was bloody brilliant 👌

RIP Catherine O’Hara

Tonight, my eldest and I will be doing a re-watch of Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers tomorrow, then off to the cinema to watch Return of the King. Can't wait to see the Rohirrim charging down the Pelennor Fields on a massive screen again

Mind-blowing comic fact I learned this week: Jack Kirby drew between 10-12,000 comic pages during his time at Marvel. So far, I've barely broken 100 pages 😂

Currently stuck in Vinted limbo where I’ve bought a book and had zero updates in 5 days 👌

Bought Character Design Quarterly for the first time this week and I feel like I've been missing out. The question now is not whether I keep buying it (I will) but do I let the collector in me win-out and go for getting the back catalogue too?

I’m about halfway through my first read of one of those chonky Usagi volumes and I love the format of the stories. Self-contained little adventures which as you read grow into wonderful character development and rich world-building 👌 looking forward to the next 7 volumes 😄

We never knew how much extra time celebrities had on their hands until the podcast was invented.

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Got a bit of inking done this evening. I’ve not inked a page in a couple of months so it feels good to be back on it

We raid the kids' chocolate too but we're just honest with them "I had one of those bars, I'll buy you one back". So much easier than sneaking around and the kids fighting about it (as if kids need another excuse to fight)

We've come full circle and gone back to inline stylesheets. Tailwind is the bane of my life, I'm just thankful my job doesn't involve that much coding any more, I'd have ripped all my hair out by now

This is your occasional reminder that the only way to become a comic book creator is to go and make a comic. Made a comic? Any comic at all? Congratulations, you're now a comic book creator! Welcome to the club! There are no dues, but we are all thinking about maybe getting some cool jackets.

Got a bit of inking done this evening. I’ve not inked a page in a couple of months so it feels good to be back on it

Since I was a little kid, I've wanted to be an animator and seeing stuff like this sets a fire in my gut. I think at some point soon, I'll put the breaks on making comics and delve into finally devoting some proper time to learning 2D animation www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgCU...

I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place

I’ve done this too often over the years. I’m finding telling a select few people until I reach a point of no return on a project is helping me reach that elusive grey box 😅

Telling my son about the time I saw Polysics live in Leeds back 2005, supporting Kaiser Chiefs of all bands (I went purely to see Polysics, of course)

Got to go for a blood test in the morning and I’m not allowed to eat until then. I’m already hungry and I’ve got 11.5hrs to go…

I’ve fallen behind on my #DrawJanuary thingie. Tonight I messed around with some pens my son got for his birthday. Sort of like cheap posca pens. Might have to get some of my own 😀

#ChildhoodCinema The ABC in Halifax, W Yorkshire. Aside from one visit to the IMAX in Bradford, every film I saw on a big screen was here until it closed, I guess around ‘02/03. Think Attack of the Clones was the last film I saw here (not my pic, just pulled off Google)

I’ve fallen behind on my #DrawJanuary thingie. Tonight I messed around with some pens my son got for his birthday. Sort of like cheap posca pens. Might have to get some of my own 😀

Human artists, use only once piece to convince people to follow you! This is an old one but taps into what humans really want in life...

Other kids: "That kid who wears their big coat all the time stinks of shit"

Too many companies sending emails saying ”2026 is here!” with excited puppy energy. Jus’ take a look around, it’s already a bit shit, innit?

Reminder email from the council about recycling pick-up tomorrow. Don't need a reminder since last week's didn't get picked up and it's still at the end of the driveway...

Something stupid and silly for you in these sick, sad times.

Missed a day but catching up. Today’s been an absolute shitter because a pipe burst in our garage #DrawJanuary

Luckily, I've gotten much better at this lately!

Nearly scammed twice this morning looking for a plumber to come fix a big leak in our garage. Fucking hate the internet sometimes

Anyone else trying to maintain a positive outlook then you glance at the news and it just shatters into a million pieces?

Microsoft setting the bar for "Dumb business shit in 2026" within the first 7 days

First day back at school after the holidays. One kid refusing to eat anything, the other refusing to even get dressed... it's 8:10 and I already feel like I've done a days work... 😪

🚀 SATURDAY 28th MARCH! LONDON! To celebrate the launch of my brand new book series MEGALOMANIACS we’re doing another rather big event, and I’d love you to be there! I’ll be on stage, drawing an absolutely ridiculous comic based on audience suggestions 💖TICKETS: www.waterstones.com/events/megal...