Have started Atomfall and it's taking some time to get used to. Cyberpunk 2077 almost put me off becasue the UI was chucking so much information at me constantly, Atomfall is the exact opposite. Anyway, that's my 2025 opinion for you.

Remember Streeting's review into whether young people are being overdiagnosed with ADHD, autism, and mental health issues? Well, the interim report is out, and there's a reason the media are silent on it (spoiler: it proves what a lot of us have been saying all along)

I really don't like using the word 'practise' correctly. It just feels wrong.

Going up the daily charts now iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/track/hello-...

I need to work out a way to reinvent myself artistically. Churning zines that take 5mins each to explain as I watch the light fade from people's eyes is... well, it's starting to get harder to justify.

I have never seen a more mashed dog www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

My advice to everyone tabling at @arcfestivallondon.bsky.social today: Pretend To Yourself It's Not Hot. You'll forget (or at least I did) and then when anyone says 'It's HOT' you can say 'OH THANK YOU VERY MUCH NIW I'M HOT' and that'll guilt-trip them into buying something.

On my way to @arcfestivallondon.bsky.social and um somehow I might get there early.

There you go, all done and ready to go. Pages open to 'Alpha Flight Special '87' and 'Waveless'.

Apologies - 32 pages. It's called 'Plants Not Pets' after a line in a comic that I forgot to include. Available at @arcfestivallondon.bsky.social tomorrow as long as I can print it.

May have spent some time smashing together a 30-page short comics collection in time for ARC tomorrow. Once again getting the timing of this sort of thing perfectly wrong.

💃TONIGHT!🕺 Everyone involved in the comics industry is welcome Gird your loins and bring your viewpoints: IT’S DISCUSSIN’ TIME. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/this-mess-...

If my maths is right you can buy comics from no less than 18 #BF6toWatch creators at @arcfestivallondon.bsky.social. We'll have 10 of them on the @brokenfrontier.bsky.social table over the weekend and there are another 8 around the hall. Epic! arc-london.uk

🌐🌐 Passage of Time: The Music of Michael F. Hunt is out now 🌐🌐 Three longform compositions from 1980-1985, connecting New Age music, American Minimalism, and orchestral ensemble. Order from Bandcamp: www.submithub.com/link/phantom...

I'd really like to see a film where Milly Adcock plays Supergirl in a better film than Supergirl.

10 copies of Vortices for @arcfestivallondon.bsky.social Vortices uses text from 'Sensitive Chaos', a philiosophical/scientific book about the relationship of water and air and deeply personal annotations from one of my copy's previous owners. That's what it is... what it's *doing* is... I dunno.

10 copies of Vortices for @arcfestivallondon.bsky.social Vortices uses text from 'Sensitive Chaos', a philiosophical/scientific book about the relationship of water and air and deeply personal annotations from one of my copy's previous owners. That's what it is... what it's *doing* is... I dunno.

New week, new Mindlessness. Issue #65 of our newsletter is out, ft. @arcfestivallondon.bsky.social, Barbelith, bible stories, Heathcote Williams, John Wyndham, Jules Scheele, The Sex Victims (1973) and more!

More important advice: If you're going to reproduce the cover to every copy of a comic by hand make sure it's easy and you don't have problems holding your attention.

Very important life advice: If you have a washing machine, don't put off cleaning out the filter.

Somehow, this is only a week away?! It's going to be an immense weekend, genuinely bewildered by the strength of the exhibitors list... I'm also in my usual "oh no I need to make something new" panic so am pulling on all sorts of WIP-threads to see what comes free.

Sure, the minions didn't work for Hitler, but you know who they DID work for?

Simon Harrison

I will be selling my comics and prints @arcfestivallondon.bsky.social ✨ July 11th and 12th

If you needed any more convincing to attend @arcfestivallondon.bsky.social, look no further! Slap it in the diary big smokers!!

Got a great deal on a pair of size 12.5 trainers, which is great since all my other shoes are falling to pieces. Apparently the website hadn't been clear that the 12.5 trainers they were selling were a kid's size though.

This is not a book, but should be a book.

Have a new guy in my team at work who's new to both me and the company culture. So naturally I used a massive chuck of today's standup to explain why we SHOULD HAVE WON THE CHRISTMAS GINGERBREAD HOUSE COMPETITION and that all the other gingerbread houses were RUBBISH and that there's no justice.

A painting from 2025’s solo exhibition. Drift - oil and acrylic on canvas #painting #art

I've also been generously gifted discount codes by Samsung and Boohoo Man.

It's my Grthday! Lego (Fast&Furious and Fortnite) Whisky, Atomfall, a bunch of Maigret novels and a footspa. Absolutely brilliant. I am 46.

Paul Johnson

In this hot weather remember to

Mystery solved. One of our neighbours had the audacity to be in their own garden, minding their own business. When i called him in he was still giving little barks over his shoulder like "this isn't over pal".

Does anyone know why the fuck my dog is barking like a mad bastard at absolutely nothing

My main ADHD superpower is coming up with metaphors for how ADHD feels that nobody understands.

This is all I see when I see the Anthropic logo.

Good news! Our kid is visiting us in Albania which means I have an art mule at my disposal! So I'm opening up commission slots again! 7x10 watercolor: $200 12x16 watercolor: $300 FIRST TIME OFFERED!>>> 6x8 oil: $250 DM for your slot, but act fast because the kid goes home mid July!

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If 35 people back at the $1 level we would more than double BF's monthly income from backers which is WILD considering how big a role it plays in UK #comics coverage. It's a good time to support, especially considering their new stance on AI. www.patreon.com/c/brokenfron...

Half way through the year and my stated ambition of getting another full sized book done is starting to fade like that photo in Back To The Future.

Happy Father's Day! Art by Carlos Ezquerra

Martha's woken up and there's lots of hurried whispering I think they've clocked it. Balls.

OK, currently playing a game with the family called "Who will remember it's Father's Day first?" I appear to have already won it, but I'll give the others time to catch up. I reckon I should win at least one bottle of whisky if they don't realise by 8pm.

Forecast is for the temperature to go up 36 degrees in London this next week (that's down from the previous 39, thankfully). The concrete and masonry will soak up the heat and reflect it back, maybe ten degrees hotter, so its worth wetting your yard if you can, and any paving, even your front step.

Name a TV show you're sure nobody remembers except you: Small Potatoes, a sitcom starring Tommy Tiernan. I only saw episodes from the second season and remember thinking it was very good. That would have been in 2001? and nobody has talked about it since: www.imdb.com/title/tt0221...

Am in the final few pages of Jamaica Inn and I've got to come back to work becasue I have "deadlines" for "important work". Absolute bullshit.

🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! 🚨 I’m Scared of Scotland Because of Sink #1, by @zackquaintance.bsky.social: shelfdust.com/2026/06/17/i...

Comics coverage outlets! Don't forget #SmallPressDay co-organiser @andywpoliver.bsky.social of @brokenfrontier.bsky.social is available for interviews. He's been on the team since the very beginning in 2016. E-mail us at the address here: smallpressday.co.uk/contactus/