Without Noel Sickles, there's no Milt Caniff, no Alex Toth, no Frank Robbins. He's the source for a huge slice of how comics are drawn.

My mum was what they now call a trad wife, and she hated not having her own money. Equally, she also really wanted me to be a tradwife. It's an incredibly miserable experience and it's also a very good way of chasing away your children.

The offer made to women in the enticement to become trad wives is the same as the offer made to citizens in the enticement to embrace authoritarianism: give up. Abandon the aspiration to self rule. It’s imprisonment recast as rest and relief.

You like Rollicking space adventures with a Mysterious hero in a Helmet but don’t want to support Disney? Then you should head over to my Patreon to read the latest #TerranOmegaPage5 Patreon.com/pjholden it’s free!

If you write professionally in the UK, make sure to sign up to ALCS for your fair share of royalties

This is best understood by recognising that this isn’t because *the public* have been wildly radicalising themselves to the far right for well over a decade. It’s politicians and media figures who have been roasting their own brains and egging each other on, with results that are all around us.

Good morning! I have a blog post full of sketchbook stuff for youse to look at and maybe even comment on... christinelarsenillustration.com/blarg/2025/9...

Connecting a commonly used, low cost and widely available painkiller to autism, in a country that puts up significant financial barriers to getting medical treatment, seems very cruel. Autism is caused at least partly by genetics.

I will never forget how the fully fictional “concerns” of TERFs and billionaires about trans people have contributed to the rapid rise of fascism. There they are, egging it on, not listening to science, history, medicine, and individual experience, fiddling their own prejudices while society burns.

Looking at art as Art - something that doesn’t have to swaddle you up in emotional comfort and confirm you - gives you the chance to think about what you hold as moral and why. If you want art to agree with you all the time, you erode your ability to question the world and yourself

Next weekend!! with Lucy Sullivan. See you there!

I’m kind of starting to think that any democratic uprising by the people is going to include a full-on rejection of tech and its makers. Just throwing these machines into a river and holding the designers responsible.

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

Next weekend!! with Lucy Sullivan. See you there!

Trans people are not a threat to women’s safety. Over 52,000 women have signed the open letter to say not in our name. Will you join them? notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...

Worth translating, but basically the point isn’t to ban antifa, which they know doesn’t exist, but to accuse you of being antifa (which you can’t disprove) and then ban *you*.

This fall brings not just one but two exhibitions about Ursula and her work. In Portland, A Larger Reality: Ursula K. Le Guin opens October 31st at Oregon Contemporary. In London, The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin opens October 10th at the AA Gallery.

Some tips for this (1/2): - Just turn up! - If you haven't got a portfolio, you can make 8 pages by mid Nov if you start now. - Just bring your finished work. - Print it out unless its a webcomic (crappy printing is better than no printing). - Think about your storytelling - A4 p/copies are fine.

Unless I'm reading this badly wrong and the administration puts out contrary implementation, it would appear that starting tonight, anyone with an H-1B who doesn't write a $100,000 check to the US government is banned from reentering the country if they're currently outside the US.

Thank you for all the kind words on my last post, friends 💛 As promised, here's a bunch of warm up sketches from the past year. All are a combination of pen and pencil and most of these ended up as paintings~ (1/2)

This is the first time that Thought Bubble are running formal portfolio reviews (I think) and it's an amazing opportunity for artists.

As someone who essentially got his foot in the door through an ad-hoc portfolio review at Thought Bubble many moons ago, it would be remiss of me not to highlight what a sublime opportunity this is;

thats... uh.. quite a lot of money

Nick Clegg says that the UK’s vaunted trade deal with the US is just a capitulation to secondary status, to being exploited. And who would know better about that? https://bit.ly/4nfqs7g

My first academic article was on the dictatorship of Uzbekistan inventing a group called "Akromiya" that did not really exist but which they used to arrest anyone with whom they disagreed under the pretext of "terrorism". Just bringing this up for no reason whatsoever!

My cover for Red Book by @jamesthefourth.bsky.social and @oeming.bsky.social at @darkhorse.com

Some tips for this (1/2): - Just turn up! - If you haven't got a portfolio, you can make 8 pages by mid Nov if you start now. - Just bring your finished work. - Print it out unless its a webcomic (crappy printing is better than no printing). - Think about your storytelling - A4 p/copies are fine.

I wouldn't have made comics if I hadn't shown the first four pages I'd ever drawn in a portfolio review at the first Thought Bubble I ever attended. Just that little nudge helped. Just life-changing. And I know a lot of us would say the same.

I'll be doing some of these portfolio reviews at this year's Thought Bubble!

I’ll be involved in offering portfolio reviews at this years @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social

Perhaps the most beautiful book I've seen this year, with Ariela writing and drawing from the heart.

"What can you tell us about any research that may have been involved in the project to encapsulate this aspect of the story?" I want interviewers to ask creators this question, about every book. This is what the people want to know! @fanbasepress.bsky.social fanbasepress.com/press/interv...

A very excellent opportunity for comic artists looking to get some peer to peer feedback on their portfolios from Thought Bubble Guests, who have kindly offered their time. These reviews are open to everyone! And we highly encourage all levels, ages, background to take part.

NEW COMIC. The story of Rosmunda. 8 pgs, 1 of 2 🧵 also at the link: tinyurl.com/48hbaesk #comic #comicsky

Want to get your portfolio looked at by a comics pro at @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social ? I’m one of many reviewers: www.thoughtbubblefestival.com/portfoliorev...

Please share- the biggest challenge we have with this kind of thing is convincing people it is a. For them and b. Getting them to bring their work in. It IS for everyone, from marvel and 2000 artists to an eight year old with a few pages. No sign ups needed, just turn up.

These reviews are for everyone; all ages, styles and levels of comic artist welcome and encouraged. No pre-booking needed, find out more here: thoughtbubblefestival.com/portfolioreviews

WE ARE DOING A THING AT THOUGHT BUBBLE...

Just keep this in mind if you ever think “wow I really want to get some of those smart glasses”

For people still playing the centrist card and both siderism, you'll never be enough. You'll never be white enough, able-bodied, straight, hot, religious, and performing gender enough, having rich parents and then an easier life-enough for the MAGA people. One day they'll be coming after you.

My cover for Red Book by @jamesthefourth.bsky.social and @oeming.bsky.social at @darkhorse.com

Causing friction is very effective protesting. Three short, polite points in paper letters which must be manually opened to find out what they say. 90 seconds a letter? 100 letters = 2.5 hours staff time not spent on usual tasks. 1000 letters? Heaped mailbags soon get noticed.

Presenting BLONDIE!!! Working on a new erotic comic this fall, and so I made a little poster of it to get myself hyped! Get ready for some Ingrid and Anaïs action, babyyyyy!!!! 😎😎😎

And here's Lucy Bellwood with some INCREDIBLY useful advice for comics writers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXO1... @lubellwoo.bsky.social

Trump: "We don't do wind because wind is a disaster. It's a very expensive joke, frankly."

I have never used any LLM tool. I have never typed a prompt. Other life choices exist, and I'm not saying they're bad. Making my brain work is important to me. Even "mindless" tasks are important to engage Default Mode Network thinking (problem solving while doing something minimally engaging).

This is also why the UK's porn ID thing is dangerous territory, authoritarians will call anything they don't like either terrorism or indecent/pornographic.