Unsolicited writing advice, no. 80519000: Your work is your own. Your decisions are yours. Whether you use editors, sensitivity readers, beta readers or not, whether you take advice or not, whether the readers like it or not, you call the shots. For good or ill, it stops with you.

Gail Simone, Sarah Brunstad, Nat Bustos, Rachael Stott, Stephanie Hans, Torunn Groenbek and me.

The paragraph about TV Tropes is spot on. I can't bear that approach to criticism where the main aim seems to be asserting superiority to the work. People who'll identify an influence and be like "Ah, rumbled!" episodes.ghost.io/art-criticis...

they didn't need AI to make Silksong, it just needed some deeply insane guys to have a blank check for living expenses until their next thing was done, I think we should try doing more of that instead

My first cover (and first work for) for 2000AD :)

VERY exciting for this new story coming to 2000 AD next year! @gronbekk.bsky.social and Silvia Califano are bringing back Venus Bluegenes — with an amazing new cover by @alisonsampson.bsky.social!!

something I learned this year is you should invite people to things even if you know they can’t come. instead of it making them feel bad it actually makes them feel good

we are making a print zine (!!!) about the surveillance tactics used by ICE, and the ways people are resisting this technology.

Day 22 #artAdventCalendar my bee (and other pollinator) propaganda I made for Manufactured Ecosystems. 🧪🐡🐝 Thinking about the future of pollination and seeking solutions from technological and nature-based knowledge. This is essentially my conclusion: we can aid our beleaguered pollinators with 🧵

Okay real talk, the only sense in which GenAI is "here to stay" is that even after the bubble pops, AI is digital asbestos that is poisoning everything and we'll probably be picking the detritus out of everywhere it's ended up for years, assuming there's a will to remove it en masse that is.

Thinking of GenAI as pollution is a good lens to look at it. It will forever more destroy the credibility of images, text and video. It’s a stain on the internet, an oil spill that no amount of dawn and toothbrushes will clear. We will live with the consequences for generations.

Hi guys I’m trying to plan for my 2026 schedule and would like to say I’m open for cover work if any editors or writers are looking. My clientele includes DC, BOOM!, IDW, Titan and Vault Comics. I work best on horror, fantasy and pin up covers. 📩 [email protected]

Here’s some Ulla Thynell art to make your Sunday a little better.

Happy Winter Solstice! Quince blossom in snow, lithograph print, Meiji era Japan. #Art #FlowerReport #Flowers 🎴#Bloomscrolling

Please share this widely. There have been 13 peer-reviewed critiques of the Cass Review, to the extent that academia regards it as pseudoscience, but so far all have been subject to organised censorship by mainstream media. This is the first time one has broken through. Oz Guardian only still.

Two of my upcoming 2026 releases highlighted here. (Also next year: Children of Strife, the gothic horror sf novella Preaching to the Choir and a short story collection, among others)

It's your birthday, Duane.

We may uh want to have a conversation about the fact that the majority of popular gay male romance is written by and for women

Seal is here!

oomf who is a librarian had to take down the David Walliams poster at work today and said it felt like pulling down the big Saddam Hussein statue in Baghdad in 2003

With Trevor Horne at the Shepherds Bush Empire--- very good. And if you don't know his music you've certainly heard it.

Outstanding news! www.fastcompany.com/91461983/ind...

If the industry rumours are true about Walliams using ghost writers, a sane publisher would sign the (clearly very successful and competent) back room hack(s) up, come clean, throw the same publicity machine behind them, and have a fantastic line of popular kids’ books ready for next year.

You know what must be done. “Corridor Again” is a new 13-page comic drawn by @spacemacchiato.bsky.social and written by myself. You can read it below or purchase a high-resolution .pdf for a price of your choosing at the link: hagaipalevsky.itch.io/corridor-again (1/2)

I'm glad he's been dropped, but the senior staff involved should resign. They hid, enabled & normalised his behaviour, which targeted staff in poorly paid, very competitive entry level positions who had zero power & knew that any pushback would likely threaten their entire careers.

David Walliams' reputation was an open secret, junior staff were told to meet him in pairs & never visit his home, yet HarperCollins only dropped him when a Telegraph investigation came out. The problem is not just him. HarperCollins knowingly promoted & funded a guy sexually harassing junior staff.

Good news! We’ve extended the application deadline to exhibit at TCAF 2026 or suggest programming. We know life, art, and admin can be extra hard to juggle before the holidays, and we want to ensure everyone has a little more breathing room. Apply by December 29 at 11:59pm ET www.torontocomics.com

-Comes into your space uninvited, without permission -Greedily uses up resources preferentially - Forces a new mode of existence on you -Steals your own shit to sell back to you -Desperately wants to convince you that its arrival is good, that these are glad tidings AI or colonialism?

A Christmas Carol - Published this day in 1843 - Ronald Searle's illustration from 1961

once again putting me in the mood for a burrito... (it is 6am) #art #comics #CoMCH

that WSJ article about wheelchairs at the airport obviously sucks shit but it points to another issue which is Americans are so thoroughly worked over by constant and omnipresent scams that they now see anything which benefits another person as merely a scam that they are not in on

One of my favorite pages from the new Toxic Avenger comic that I made with the mighty @mattbors.bsky.social

Out TODAY is issue #1 of Strange Tails! An all new series following the Scarlet Witch as she’s visited at the emporium by various critters requesting her help. Read now on Marvel Unlimited! #comic #art 🌹✨

ICYMI

The work continues with Vol. 2. I've just finished colouring the latest chapter, which will be posted on Patreon on the 21st. X

"How can funders avoid crossing the Szilard point?" The Szilard point is "the threshold at which the total cost of competing for a grant equals (or surpasses) the value of the available funding."

I remembered I had a print shop somewhere and updated it with the two different Anzuelo covers after being asked by some folks 🪸 www.inprnt.com/gallery/emma...

Suffice to say, creators benefitting from their own work is a good thing. What this enables is actual innovation, the kind that comes out of human ideas, not Ai regurgitation. It was that that built the UK into the design powerhouse it is (was?). Add neoliberalism and it is doomed (have been there).

Comic creators are the heart of the comic industry, obviously, and they need to be both protected and supported so they can make their best work.

It is wonderful that there is a real push for more funding, tax breaks and emphasis on comics, I support that 100%. I would also have liked to see a rejection of AI and a stronger understanding of comic creators, both their rights and their priorities, but perhaps that will come from other quarters.

Tomorrow is the last day you'll be able to buy any of our comics before our online shop goes on a break until mid-January! If you're based in the UK and need a last minute Christmas gift, check out this thread for some recommendations (and get 1st class postage to make sure it arrives in time!) 👇

On International Migrants Day, let’s celebrate the generations of migrants who’ve helped make London what it is today - the greatest city in the world.

A story I found about Haiti: In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."

I drew some vampires making a MESS

COMIC SHOP OWNERS: Django Bohren of The Comics Place in Bellingham, WA posted this on FB. He & Jeffrey Figley are co-sponsoring 3 shops' first-time trips to the annual ComicsPRO meeting in Feb! Haven't been to a ComicsPRO meetup? Go apply (it's a super simple process) docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Tech companies are actually pretty explicit about this: The point is to have a device that you can’t escape, one that always has access to you and makes you a constant source of data beyond what a phone does. Surveillance-first devices.

"Synthetic panels" are AI-generated survey responses... The obvious point is: If it was possible to "accurately predict how certain populations would respond to a survey" we wouldn't need surveys, polls or panels, and survey/polling companies wouldn't exist. We also wouldn't need elections.

Hi, I'm the CEO of Glorbo, the company who enjoys near unprecedented goodwill in our field, I'm here today to talk to you about our pivot to using the Magic 8-Ball powered by children's bones that everybody hates, I've given myself psychosis listening to the 8-ball aaaaeeeeeiiiiooouuuu