Two bylines in @forteantimes.bsky.social 470! 1st, my Forum article about how Paddington has become a very British psychopomp 2nd is my comics review column, where I review work by @chrissywilliams.bsky.social @gustaffovargas.bsky.social @bigfootstudio.bsky.social & @paulcornell.bsky.social & others

Get WITCHING SEASON -- the PREVIOUS ANTHOLOGY co-edited by @cerealpancake.bsky.social -- via select Reward Tiers and Add-ons for her new #Afterlife anthology: HALLOWED GROUND! The two anthologies will be make for great paired reading 👏🧹💀 www.kickstarter.com/projects/dea...

What is GOLDEN RAGE? It's "Battle Royale meets The Golden Girls" and it's about menopause, infertility, community, and machetes. Read the first issue free and pick up the collected books here! imagecomics.com/comics/relea...

Our Kickstarter for ‘Orlando’ by @julesscheele.bsky.social just went live! We’re so excited about this stunning adaption of Virginia Woolf’s classic novel. Order your copy of the book, and see what excellent kickstarter exclusives are on offer too! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ave...

Oh this is great: there’s now an #Artemis II Lunar Flyby Gallery on the NASA images site: www.nasa.gov/gallery/luna... (thx @dpmanchee.bsky.social for pointing it out)

“Fight the Moon”

Listening in to the live Artemis II feed. I love the way they talk about everything (jargon, acronyms, plaing English) . Like a bit ago, an astronaut was talking emotionally about how beautiful the views were of the approaching moon, and Houston's CapCom person responded plainly “Copy. Moon joy.”

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

I highly recommend putting this NASA #Artemis II mission livestream on and just leaving it playing as you go about your weekend. Live views of the spacecraft, occasional visualizations of the current config, views of the control room, space-ground radio audio. www.youtube.com/live/m3kR2KK...

😮 Awesome views from Day 2 of #Artemis II this morning. @exploration.esa.int @esaearth.esa.int

"Humanity's next great voyage begins" #Artemis

Some of the small spot illustrations by Eric Fraser that accompanied the Radio Times magazine’s weekly listings for the BBC’s 1981 radio adaptation of Tolkein’s “The Lord Of The Rings”.

I think SNL UK nailed this. youtu.be/nRMgVgdQQbc?...

What ... no. /Why/ is this?

In an ancient forest, shallow pools reflect not the trees above, but a luminous city of elsewhere. My shortlisted entry for the Cheltenham Illustration awards. Inspired by the changing landscape, childhood (and adulthood) fantasy, reflections, exploration of strange places... #art #illustration

This was really lovely - I feel really lucky that I get to build spaces like this. ❤️

It really gets my goat when people tell me I may not like AI but it’s here to stay & there’s nothing we can do about it. Yes there is! We don’t have to bow down to every corporate demand! We can fight, regulate, use the law. We can & must ensure this tech benefits humanity & doesn’t dismantle it.

I’m really looking forward to hosting this tonight - come along! bsky.app/profile/perv...

Next week!

When people say Lynchian or whatever it's always the strobe lights and the surrealism and the whooshing ambient dread, and never that scene in Twin Peaks when Ben and Jerry excitedly eat too much bread and deliver their dialogue through gobs of gluten

"Don't let the arseholes take art away from us."

With Mother's Day coming up in the UK, may I suggest getting your mum or grandmother friend a cathartic copy of Golden Rage: Mother Knows Best? She probably has enough candles.

TONIGHT!

Happy International Women’s Day! Please continue to scream.

Is this … a Psycho dollhouse?

This happened. The print interview was edited in ways that feel very jumpy, but I got to say some things. Like: Maybe changing the world is more like caregiving than it is like war. Too many people still expect it to look like war. [and then there's a crazy jump-cut w/out transition.]

Grace Jones is an inspiration. 77, drinking wine, eating oysters, headlining a festival.

Some thoughts about edible poems and respect for authors here: chrissywilliams.substack.com/p/i-wrote-a-...

The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer. 🧵 1/5

I'm part of this Image Comics Masterclass in Storytelling event on Monday night at TCR Waterstones if you're around! www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...

Please come to an awesome PERVERSE poetry reading with Annie Katchinska, Crispin Best, Edward Doegar, Joe Carrick-Varty, L. Kiew, Michelle Penn, Natalie Shaw and Phoebe Gilmore on Weds 18th March | Basement @The Betsey Trotwood (EC1R 3BL) | from 7pm | free

No cheating your last saved picture of a celebrity is your therapist.

You, an individual, cannot "fix" the whole world. You can act at the scale of your life. You should act at the scale of your life.

It's up it's up! Put all my heart and sweat blood and tears into this book, please support it!

If you read one thing today this is a tonic to the onslaught. Thanks Jameela Jamil jameelajamil.substack.com/p/ah-shit-we...

❤️❤️

58 hours left in our Kickstarter for Oracles by @zebko.bsky.social! We're targeting 200 backers, so we need 25 more! It's a beautiful, poetic and moving book - one of the most perfect we've made. If you can back it or spread the word that would be very helpful! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ave...

Make Art (1/4)

greenlit.com/project/unfo... Well - this is scary stuff, but what's the BEST than can happen? Every little helps towards our budget for a two-week rehearsal and workshop leading up to a London industry sharing for www.unfoldingthemusical.com xx Your shares and comments keep this alive. Thank you!🎇

'the UK creative industries — which contributed £125 billion to the economy in 2024 and supported 2.4 million jobs — are being destroyed by an AI sector that... contributed just £11 billion in the same year and supported only 85,000 jobs." www.thetimes.com/culture/film...

Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem. Thank you. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Today's the day! The KS for SINK YOUR TEETH IN #1 from me, @zoewithasword.bsky.social, @jpjordan.bsky.social, @longtalljodie.com, @cerealpancake.bsky.social is live! Vampires, lesbians, detectives, lesbian vampire detectives! What more could you possibly want? www.kickstarter.com/projects/dea...

I had a good day yesterday. Baby red room at the BFI, Moonwalkers at the Light Room, catching up with so many people at the TS Eliot prizegiving, and some solid weird writing on the train. All good things.

It’s here! The 4th Annual Yeti Awards. @jimmygaspero.bsky.social is joined by @dbandry.bsky.social & @jamesbemmett.bsky.social to cover CBY’s favorite comics and creators of 2025. Special shoutout to @mmatelonek.bsky.social who named her favorites as well. Listen 👇🏽 or wherever you get your podcasts

“Is this how the world will be / and not just how it is?” From Karen Solie’s Wellwater.

If you make poetry comics, published or self-published, this is worth applying to!

Slightly diminish a band. Wet Foot