Glad to see records from our back catalog are still getting love. Tommy Bell by Turkish Delight is one iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/album/ihn003...

Anyway, finished 'The Hollow Work: Cave Number 4' yesterday.

If my emails are anything to go by, 'Blue Monday' is now just another excuse for online retailers to try and sell me stuff.

Took the night off from drawing (although I had done over an hour of artmin) and decided to treat myself to playing some video games. Spent 45mins deciding what to play, another 30mins downloading Assassin's Creed Mirage, got through setup and the first cutscene before deciding to go to bed.

Second book of the year finished - Hunter Of The Grotesque by Edogawa Rampo. It's in two parts which are completely different to each other, the first part being a pervert's descent into madness, the second being a ludicrously twisty espionage thriller. Enjoyed every page.

oh hello what could this be? 👀👉 ko-fi.com/s/ec1f7cdea3

"Bill, one of the support acts for that Machine Girl gig we're going to is called Goreshit?" "WHAT I LOVE GORESHIT YESSSSS" Also: "My favourite tracks of theirs are the ones everybody else hates, I hope they play them." He's deffo my son.

The Hollow Work: Cave Number 3 is done.

Confusion, outrage and disgust this evening as we slowly pieced together that my daughter thought that Harry Hill and Gregg Wallace were the same person.

I'm an episode behind on Traitors, but it's interesting to note that everyone will assume someone's a Traitor if they're rude, but if they're polite they're a good person and therefore incapable of lying.

Issue #40 of our newsletter is out now, ft. Absolute All Star Superman, Adventures in pyramid building, billy woods, BLAST!, Deancore, GI Joe, magical bastards, Tomás De Torquemada and more! It's a good one.

Recent WIP's from The Hollow Work

The Colossive Cartography Series 12 is now complete including “A Fragile Obsession” by my own fair hand concerning what happens when an EBay studio glass habit gets out of control.

Recent commission. Want me to draw something? Happy to do so. Get in now in time for Christmas!

Did some digging... Forbes, of all places -AP reported Good was a U.S. citizen born in Colorado & had no past legal issues aside from a traffic ticket. -Good was a mother of three & had a daughter & son, aged 15 & 12, from her 1st marriage & a six-year-old with her second husband who died in 2023.

Oh cool. Found some fuckos selling my frog on a sweatshirt. zezexy.com/it/products/...

Tintin dans l'espace Hergé

ICYMI my annual round-up of ten UK self-published comics I reviewed from the previous year. Really pleased this still gets so much attention each year! Been doing one of these since 2012. www.brokenfrontier.com/ten-uk-small...

Village Group Chat: someone opened a bag of brown sugar, some of it had clumped but they thought the clumps were insects, panicked, asked the village what the insects were, and threw the sugar away before anyone could say 'they're sugar'.

So don't usually do these but my neighbours house burnt down overnight, some of the kids are hurt and they've literally got nowt but what they are stood up in. If you can please share or donate to the gofundme that would be really appreciated 🤘🏼 www.gofundme.com/f/7nt93-help...

The UK government needs to ban X at this stage. Getting off the platform is no longer anywhere near sufficient.

BREAKING: X’s chatbot Grok isn’t just making AI porn deepfakes, it’s now making Nazi AI porn deepfakes, undressing women and showing them wearing “swastika bikinis”. Many of these women are Jewish, including a recently deceased Holocaust survivor.

Here's a page from The Hollow Work on my Patreon that everyone can see: www.patreon.com/posts/silkso... If you join, even as a free member, you'll get something like this every day. Some people don't want that, which I understand, but that's how it works.

I think this is done, aspects feel wrong. We'll see #WIP #comics

For the benefit of nobody really, here's all the books I read in 2025 (excluding comics). Full written list is in alt text. All of these were great, all recommended. Although Mr Bridge is a sequel to 'Mrs Bridge' which I'd recommend higher.

The deposit has been paid so I guess we're doing this 😬😬 10 days left to apply! MAKE IT SO!

This is terrifying.

Marty Supreme is a lot of movie, in the best way possible. Amazing.

"But Your Honour, it was impossible for me to start work that day - I had a dog asleep against my leg" "The accused is free to go."

Here are pages from two new parts of The Hollow Work I started over the Christmas break. 'To Breathe Space' and something new about mountains which is easy and might get dumped unless I can do some truly amazing writing to accompany it.

A lot of people freaked out when Bob Dylan went electric and they were CORRECT to do so. Who do you think has to pay for that electricity? That’s right, normal taxpayers like you and me!

Village WhatsApp group rolling into 2026 with a protected argument about fireworks.

Posted to my village group chat and they're loving it.

Talking to a relative over Christmas who said she was leaving the WI over "this trans nonsense". It sent a cold rush through me, until she continued; saying that one very loud transphobe on committee was dominating meetings & she & many others were sick of it. These ghouls ARE hated by their peers.

There were no perfect albums in the 90s. They all contained mistakes, recording mess ups and general deviations from acceptable tolerances. It wasn’t until the 2000s, when autotune and advanced audio correction software became widely available that perfect albums were even a possibility.

Dunno who needs to know this, but I watched 'Fight Or Flight', a Sky Original movie with Josh Hartnett, expecting it to be rubbish. And it sort of was, except it was really really fun.

It's been a very "get books" Christmas.

Happy Change The Thermostatic Mixer In The Shower Day to all who celebrate. Especially if you're like me, and have ordered the wrong sized one.

I've added the full comic to my Patreon, along with a little bit of Process Chat and some thoughts on the phrases I used within it - semi-autobiographical, as always, touching on my time as a religious child, seeing a UFO the other night, and owning a dog.

2026 resolution: Get Derfed

Bandcamp is pretty good for connecting with fans who want to support musicians. But if you want your tracks to reach people who actively dislike musicians, then you need to get your music on Spotify as well.

A long shot but if anyone's got James Acaster's ear can they ask him if there's going to be another Temps album? I'd really like one.

Issue #37 of our newsletter is a seasonal spectacular, ft. Christmas Annuals, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jetfire, Santa, bio-flesh regeneration, fresh @grthink.bsky.social art, an interview with a too celeb, Andrew & Steven, Terry Hall and more!

🚨Coupon time! 25% discount on tapes & digitals using the checkout code: str25 Valid the next 2 weeks for anything on the STR Bandcamp. It might work for other labels as well, but we haven’t checked. You could try it on Warp or Sony? Definitely works on STR tho. strategictapereserve.bandcamp.com

LinkedIn's version of 'Wrapped' is easily the saddest and most depressing one I've seen so far.

Let me ask you a question. Do you like water and breathable air? Or would you prefer to be able to make Captain Pugwash and Buzz Lightyear do stuff to each other for just $14.99 per month? This is the dilemma of the age, let's debate this endlessly.

PLEASE SHARE IF YOU LOVE COMICS (or owe me a favour) This new 104-page anthology I designed and edited has 25 creators celebrating and exploring the them of influence www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G5QDPSBY All money from sales goes directly to @cartoonmuseum.bsky.social A great long read and a good cause

The 'ah fuck' moment of realising that my brain is being weighed down by fog and I've got a hollow feeling in my chest that's weighing me down. Probably sad lamp time.

The Hollow Work is chugging along on Patreon. A few days ago the page 'Archean 3b' (which is actually two pages) was released for free to the public, and you can go and have a look at it here: www.patreon.com/posts/archea... You can sign up as a free follower if you want to, too.