Come along on Monday (a week earlier than our usual schedules), because this will be great (and personally because this skymonkey has to miss it for some personal duties, and would love to hear how the evening goes!)

Sorry that @cartooncounty.bsky.social has (for now, anyway) been defeated by zoom bombers. We’ve stopped streaming in the face of hardcore p*rn! Although thankfully all the interviews are later broadcast on @panelborders.bsky.social

🔊JOIN US 22/09! 🪶💬 Dylan & I will chat lifelong comics addictions, book to film adaptations & collaborating on (frankly terrifying) art for his debut feature film THE THING WITH FEATHERS with Benedict Cumberbatch @cartooncounty.bsky.social Brighton (My new home town 🥳)

September Cartoon County 1 week early Mon 22 The Walrus Ship Street Brighton BN1 1AD @panelborders.bsky.social talks to @lucysullivan.bsky.social and film director Dylan Southern about the new film The Thing With Feathers (Benedict Cumberbatch 'draws' Lucy's nightmarish crow who haunts his dreams)

Set up at Railway Approach, Newhaven BN9 0DF (1 minute walk from Town station in a tent near the kids’ playground) Here 3-7pm

Packed and ready to take my wares to #Newhaven Town to sell this afternoon Who knew I had so many wares… #zines and #comics and #prints are heavy! Come along and see all the great zinesters and enjoy reading them at the #microbrewery next door @rtszines always pull together an eclectic mix

I'll have a table at this on Friday (I've not shouted about it before, because I am calendar blind and didn't realise it was THIS FRIDAY!)

Our pals at the Rose Tinted Zine Fair have another pop-up event in Newhaven this Friday (29th) #zines #newhaven #art Newhaven Sidings 3pm til 7pm Fri 29th of August 2-minute walk from Newhaven Town station and bus stop Bar and café next door

Cartoonists for Gaza – Solidarity in Ink with Palestine from the Comics Community, Including Work by Bryan Talbot, Annassi Mehdi, Martin Rowson, The Rickard Sisters and Darryl Cunningham. Check out this amazing gallery of work here: www.brokenfrontier.com/cartoonists-... #cartoonistsforg4za

Cartoonists launch Cartoonists For #Gaza to respond to the humanitarian crisis in #Palestine. The artwork protests violence, calls for awareness, and demands action through visual storytelling and dissent. #cartoonistsforg4za

Artists include @martinrowson.bsky.social, @hotelfred.bsky.social, Bryan and many others! Organised by cartoonists @krentable.bsky.social and Rachael Ball Broken Frontier will be showing the work on their website in the next week at www.brokenfrontier.com #cartoonistsforg4za

#cartoonistsforg4za Please consider signing: act.38degrees.org.uk/act/stop-isr...

A couple of smaller organisations doing great work getting aid into 🍉 allourrelations.co.uk supporting families & getting food to community kitchens, & www.pc4r.org providing phone credit. And for any of my locals, brightonpsc.org are campaigning here. #cartoonistsforg4za

The past 22 months have been educational to say the least. 'Things I understand now...' is my piece for #cartoonistsforg4za Use this hashtag to find other artists taking part and please support, donate and share @medicalaidpal.bsky.social @gazasoupkitchen.bsky.social @naamoduk.bsky.social

I stand in unity with my UK colleagues, follow #cartoonistsforg4za

#cartoonistsforg4za @brokenfrontier.bsky.social

#cartoonistsforg4za I was asked to participate today to make art supporting Gaza, & it's brave people. I decided I wanted to make a design supporing Gaza Skate Team. The original art is on paper, A3 sized. Available for 300 pounds, funds to the Gaza skate team. Free Palestine! Save Gaza!

Today I join other cartoonists in action, solidarity and hope that these atrocities will end v soon. #CartoonistsForG4za

Today, many #comics artists are standing up for 🍉 - see their images by following the hashtag #cartoonistsforg4za. If you feel strongly about the atrocities happening as we speak, tell your MP via writetothem.com.

UK cartoonists launch “Cartoonists For Gaza” to respond to the humanitarian crisis, including Martin Rowson, Rachael House, Kate Evans, The Rickard Sisters, Roger Langridge, Bryan Talbot, James Sturm, Nick Abadzis, Lauren Weinstein, Hannah Berry, and Darryl Cunningham #cartoonistsforg4za

Just stop. #cartoonistsforg4za

#Comics artists are standing up for 🍉 - check out #cartoonistsforg4za. One action group has been proscribed, meaning it is illegal to show support for them. But there are always ways to raise your voice.

Follow the hashtag... #cartoonistsforg4za spelt just like that on Instagram, X, Facebook, TikTok, Substack, Threads and Bluesky as they go up.

Follow this hashtag: #cartoonistsforg4za Share & Share & Demand Better Is social media enough? If you want to do more to help humans caught up in wars check out www.humanrightscareers.com/magazine/org...

Thank you for reading this #CartoonistsForG4za comic. You can see it all in one image on our website. Follow the tag on here and Instagram for more comics from other artists. If you feel moved to donate, we’d direct you to Bridge of Solidarity here: chuffed.org/project/brid...

Bluesky's Top 10 Trending Words (past 10min): 💨x1* - gaza 🔓 💨x1* - ukraine 🔓 💨x32 - 1﹐526 💨x1* - democracy 🔓 💨x16 - story's 💨x16 - over—check 💨x15 - bolton 💨x9 - implore 💨x9 - 2025-08-23 💨x8 - kabinet *🔓 = Unlocked Emergency Words (see img) #FreePalestine 🇵🇸 (Something not right? Reply!)

If you'd like to help, please take a look here: www.map.org.uk #cartoonistsforg4za

TOMORROW! Come and join the conversation

Coming up on Monday We can’t always run a meet-up in August because of holiday commitments around the long weekend at the end, but @panelborders.bsky.social has managed to get this set up earlier than usual Don’t miss it

Yes this is happening! If you’re on the @cartooncounty.bsky.social mailing list, you’ll be offered the chance to table shortly. If there are spaces free after that, we’ll open them up more widely. Yay comics! (Psst you can sign up to the mailing list at cartooncounty.com).

Save The Date CARTOON COUNTY AUTUMN FAIR Saturday Oct 18 28 tables of great comics and cartoons for sale Details & Names to follow after this skymonkey’s holiday… (Join the mailing list at our website)

MON AUGUST 18 @panelborders.bsky.social talking to Clair Waller www.kent.ac.uk/library/temp... Digital Archivist about the British Cartoon Archive www.kent.ac.uk/library/spec... Current exhibition www.kent.ac.uk/library/spec... The Walrus, Ship St, Brighton BN1 1AD Meet: 6.30 Q&A: 7.30pm

Oh and follow @jaimehuxtable.bsky.social here

Worthing is about to welcome Making Comics for Beginners, a 10 week evening course starting this autumn from Cartoon County resident Jaime Huxtable (jaimehuxtable.com/makingcomics) He’s very good at this stuff so don’t miss out

In the past four months I've produced 16 cartoons for @theguardian.com & 4 for @bylinetimes.bsky.social. BUT I'VE DRAWN 32 FOR MY SUBSCRIBERS AT www.martinrowson.com/memberswelcome - ONLY £5 a month for things like this

HAUNTINGS AT ST. COMBA'S ACADEMY is a spooky pamphlet TTRPG inspired by ghost movies and video games such as Phasmophobia & Corpse Party. Originally created for Broken Sky ARG / #BlueskyCoven, the full game is now available on itchio, and it's free to download for a week! 👻

last day to buy at the @ldcomics.bsky.social online fair don't forget what you've saved for payday!

Don't forget! Penge Proverbs by the one and only Cosmo Chancer is yours for just £3 at bit.ly/pengeproverbs #penge #zines #cosmochancer

The countdown to the relaunched Caption Comic Festival, taking place Saturday 16th – Sunday 17th August in Botley, Oxford – and the lineup of comic creators in attendance is absolutely awesome.

The first impressive volume of The Jigsaw Review: is available now from Mal Earl’s Gweni Press, offering a humongous feast of humorous, challenging, bizarre and mind expanding comics from a range of talented creatives

Comic Creator Tips: ”I've learnt many find effective wordless storytelling to be a stroke of magic. “In silence we find sensitivity; in demanding our full attention, in a story of pictures, we find ourselves immersed.” MOLLIE RAY Creator of “Giant”

Thanks Myf - you beat me to it Dan Locke is one of the most inspirational speakers comics has... anyone who can get along this evening is in for a really energising treat The Walrus Ship St Brighton BN1 1AD Doors 6.30 Q&A 7.30pm

Tomorrow (Monday) would be a good day to make your first visit to Cartoon County