Hi I'm Johnny Baritone and I'll Be Your Freestyle Jazz Instructor

Guess who forgot to unsubscribe from his free Mubi subscription and is now £12 poorer

It's going as well and as badly as you'd expect it to.

The trick to making good music is prompting your AI: “You are a talented musician with excellent taste. Write a song that intelligent people such as myself will enjoy. Be challenging and don’t worry about offending me.” If you do that, you’ll basically have a hit factory on your hands.

"Lets experiment with creating a comic using tracing paper... it'll have to be carefully managed as there are so many ways it might work... First step: shoot some black ink into it randomly with a pipette, see what happens!" Am an idiot. But it does look cool, at the moment.

This is such an amazing piece of work, cudos to the CCIC team.

🔥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...

Whether you support the Green Party or not, the press' coverage of Polanski versus its coverage of Farage is flagrant and alarming: open.substack.com/pub/brokenbo...

I'll be tabling at this, will deffo have new comics. Special ones, cool ones.

My ambition for the year was to self-publish (or have published) one book-sized comic but at this rate I might be able to do two? If I wanted to.

Years ago I submitted my comic 'The Church' to the Observer/Cape prize and it didn't win so I wrote loads and loads of notes about it and posted it to my Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/church... There are a bunch of other annotated comics up there too, including 'Levitating Warbike' and 'Bullwise'

Have just done a quick count and I've quietly, almost accidentally, finished the artwork for 9 parts of The Hollow Work. I'm waiting for scripts to come back for three of them, plus a script that I've not drawn yet... but that's probably enough?

When you see the relentless attacks from other parties on the Greens across the media remember this: They hate our plan to end Rip Off Britain. They don't want a wealth tax. They don't want public ownership & lower bills. They're trying everything in their power to stop us.

Where to start reading: Judge Dredd: Volume Five Strontium Dog: Volume Two Brink: Volume One Slaine: Volume Four (Horned God) Rogue Trooper: Volume One Nemesis The Warlock: Volume One

Apparently the critical consensus on 'Hokum' is that it's good. I disagree, I found it very annoying.

@stiffgoat.bsky.social Turkish Delight - Tommy Bell kgfy-gxdz / iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/yum iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/album/ihn003...

Bring back the ancient knowledge

Finished 'Maigret and the Loner' last night. Not read any of them before and found this so weird as a reading experience because Simenon writes so little but manages to capture everything important in the spaces he leaves.

In case you missed it- 😅 youtu.be/6RfwUPDIOHs?...

I've spent some hours today creating a single PDF that has all 365 pages of The Gone Tower. Feel free to have a look, download a copy, whatever you need/want: drive.google.com/file/d/1NR2a...

Here's how long I was able to sit and draw by myself before someone in the house came to talk to me.

I think @jamescorcoran78.bsky.social might be a genius

Is comics literature? No. ARE comics literature? Also no.

Um, I hadn't realised it was free comic book day tomorrow when I posted that free comic book.

I've spent some hours today creating a single PDF that has all 365 pages of The Gone Tower. Feel free to have a look, download a copy, whatever you need/want: drive.google.com/file/d/1NR2a...

Have finally been bringing together all 365 pages of 'The Gone Tower' into a single pdf, and having not looked at a lot of them for a couple of years... I really like most of it. There are a few duffers, and those are the ones I remembered, but the majority are pretty good tbh

A colleague at work is Kickstarting a roleplaying system which looks pretty good if you're into that kind of thing: www.kickstarter.com/projects/avb...

Have just uploaded a full PDF of 'Intended Prosecution', a zine I made specially for last year's Thought Bubble, to release on Patreon on May 12th. So you don't miss it, you might want to sign up to my Patreon (for free, if you want!) patreon.com/grthink

Anyone using Patreon understand 'quips' yet?

In case anyone's after Podcast recommendations Chameleon, and its current weekly series, are really really good.

This👇🏽 deserves to be posted 100 times but I’d be labeled spam.

Ah, I have two to do which are both scary becuase they already look so nice.

More from Flooded Meteor. I think I've just got one more page to go.

More from Flooded Meteor. I think I've just got one more page to go.

Fun fact, you still have to fight for help even with medical evidence. Every step is the government trying to disagree with your doctor. I’d love to see this magical land that people live in where the government is just throwing out benefits to anyone.

Issue #55 of our newsletter is out now, ft. Akira, Fast Five, hidden cities, Chronic City, clown feet and more!

When radioactivity was discovered, there was a rush to market for all sorts of radioactive consumer goods. There were water jugs made out of uranium glass, for example. I think about that a lot these days whenever I see AI products being marketed to consumers.

Latest page from Flooded Meteor

Front page of every single UK newspaper today. Generative AI is theft.

Wondering if you’re not really neuro-spicy is a core part of the neuro-spicy experience. That’s weirdly relatable. Weaponising that (using the transphobic playbook) to attack a minority group who are massively under recognised? Evil.

Andrew Mbaruk is the only rapper who could announce that his next album will be his last and then record and release an entirely different album in the same week.

“AI is here, so we have no choice but to accept it” so are immigrants and trans people, but I guess that’s a skill issue

My dream car. No judgement possible; vibes beyond compare

Did a video describing how I made my 'Abstinence Spheres and Liquid Rock' project. It's 6mins long but other than ums and aahs it's not too baggy - I just made a lot of weird decisions to get to where I got to. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYhO...

Just made a video describing how I made Abstinence Spheres And Liquid Rock and found this video showing the prototype for Rainlight Cope Aesthetic: Temporal Eructation that was made just for people on Patreon, but that was 2 years ago now, so I think I'm safe to make it public: youtu.be/yFK5q-LF9xc

In our most recent Patreon video (free for anyone to watch!), I talked about how social media companies captured our audience, took them to their platforms, cut the link back to us and and then started trying to charge us money to reach our own audience. www.patreon.com/posts/behind...

I need to sort out a proper online store so I can sell comics over the Internet. Then let people know I have comics fo sell. Then convince them to buy them. That sounds exhausting already.