Li'l bump for this

This week's CXF Interview Podcast with guest @hotelfred.bsky.social is LIVE for Patreon backers. www.patreon.com/posts/150238... Listen to us talk about his new @dynamitecomicshq.bsky.social series The Muppets Noir before everyone else, and get those backer benefits!

I'm doing a MUPPETS NOIR signing at Gosh! Comics @goshcomics.bsky.social in London on Saturday 21st of February at 1pm! Details here: goshlondon.com/the-gosh-blo...

My homage to the grates cartoon sin the history of everything. EC Segar’s Popeye.

And the cover:

For the morning crowd - a new comic by me and Hagai.

For the morning crowd - a new comic by me and Hagai.

Stripwire presents is live now on Kickstarter featuring Frazer Irving, Roger Langridge and more www.kickstarter.com/projects/tri... @hotelfred.bsky.social @lyndonwebbart.bsky.social

“Pookie Pooch in ‘What’s for Dinner?’” is an eight-page autobio comic drawn by @hotelfred.bsky.social and written by myself. You can read it below or download a high-res .pdf for a price of your choosing at the link (process files also available for purchase): hagaipalevsky.itch.io/whatsfordinner

We never knew how much extra time celebrities had on their hands until the podcast was invented.

Sad to hear about Sal Buscema's passing. I read a lot of his comics growing up. The few times I've had to draw superheroes, I looked at his work to get a sense of the meat-and-potatoes of the genre. It's hard to say this without it sounding weird, but he had the best meat and the finest potatoes.

someone described MAGA as worshiping Jesus as a sort of pagan god of violence and money and, yeah, that's it, that's exactly correct

Even if you're lucky enough to be getting paid work, find a way to keep plugging away at those personal projects, even if it's only an hour a day. They'll still be there long after that paid work has dried up and blown away, and will be ready to go if someone asks.

They are pure evil, like orcs. Uncomplicated, with an uncomplicated remedy.

Trials for the officers and agents, yes. But Piazzale Loreto for the principals.

I don’t live in the US, I have no horse in this race beyond my basic fucking humanity, but I think I speak for many around the world when I say I agree with this with my whole heart.

One for the big fella's birthday. May he have many more of them.

He seems to be either having a year long stroke, or someone replaced his brain with a gypsy cream.

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new comic with @hotelfred.bsky.social coming soon

Mrs L and the boy spotted these in FNAC in Paris just now!

Today is the 97th anniversary of Popeye's first appearance on the 17th of January, 1929. (Olive is older than Popeye by almost a ten years – but when you're 97 and 106, what's a decade?)

"Jenrick" would be an excellent name for a Dickensian undertaker, all pallor and fawning, lurks a little too often around the coffins of the younger ladies

any chance of a share for our Tripwitre strip anthology on pre-launch now? www.kickstarter.com/projects/tri... @hotelfred.bsky.social @mattgarvey1981.bsky.social @marklondon.bsky.social

I believe there are some strips by me in here!

I was 13 in 1980, the year Robert Altman's Popeye movie came out - and this book was in the shops. This was the first time I had encountered E.C. Segar's original Thimble Theatre strips and I was obsessed. Obsessed!

I have a plan to save movie theaters and it’s gonna work: Double-price for phone-friendly showings. You can have your phone out the entire time, make calls, talk, bring young active children without fear of being judged. Half-price for silent showings. Phone use gets you banned for six months.

When I'm not doomscrolling, I draw comics

Support Steve Rude! I just picked up a bunch of digital sketchbooks from his web store. www.steverude.com/collections/...

Just glommed my annual font swag - today is the day!

Morning all. Happy New Year to all my moots

I am proud to report I have never had the slightest impact on the internet

Picture of the staff who operate my account

Ruin two bands by combining them: Stiff Little Buzzcocks

ATTENTION CARTOONISTS! 📢 Submissions open Jan. 1st, 2026 for the Minicomic Awards, part of the Cartoonist Co-op’s annual Nib and Ink Festival! Comics 32 pages or fewer published in 2025 will be eligible. See mca.cartoonist.coop/submission-g... for full eligibility requirements and FAQs.

L’oeuf Actually #EggAMovie

The best Batman artist! Shame that all other opinions are wrong, I guess

💖 Hi~ I've recently been hired as Illustration & Creative Lead at The Story Division, helping publishers with graphic novel projects. I'm currently updating our artist database & looking for a wider range of art styles. Cartoonists: post sequentials, website, availability below. No DMs/emails plz!

Just watched Some Like It Hot, which I thought I’d seen, but apparently not - I remember a bit on the train, and the final shot, and literally nothing else. What a delight!

Writers should be forced to letter at least one of their own comics. You all know why.

I nominate "do better" as the year's most irritating phrase. It's just so bloody entitled. Twats sitting around open jawed expecting content to be spoon-fed into their mouth, and then it's not exactly conforming to what they want, they complain from a psuedo position of higher morality. Fuck off.

Post you from a different era

Comic pals 👋 I’m on the look out to chat with artists who do sequential work in an anime style for a potential project in 2026. Please hit me up or share if you have any recommendations.

Gvt: if we make the official way to protest the legalisation of ai copyright theft a long, timewasting bit of admin, worded in corporate speak that makes ppl angrier & angrier, they might not bother Freelancers, used to chasing laughably small invoices with big companies for months: aww. Bless.