"Twelfth Night Till Candlemas" The story of a forty-year book-quest and of its remarkable ending My popular seasonal post from last year: emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni... Now with a couple of footnotes one year on: emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...

Final comic of 2025: "Without the Beatles (NEMS pt 3 concludes)" badmachinery.com/comic/2025-1...

It's a rare Tuesday comic from me; to think, once upon a time I commemorated every Tuesday with a new page. A different time, a simpler age.

It's all Stanwyck all the time at my house

He's m ng ist He’s check ice He find ou naught ice Norman Collier is comi town

I was reminded today of a very specific sort of British shopping bag that precedes free "disposable" plastic bags. It was made out of a sort of mesh, with metal handles. I wonder if anyone still makes them. They seemed near-indestructible.

New comic: "It would have taken a lot longer" badmachinery.com/comic/2025-1...

New comic: "That’s her gift" badmachinery.com/comic/2025-1...

Some recent Steeple drawings

Looking forward to spooking up my mind with this

B. Walsh, A. Hammond, H. Willoughby, A. Carr: no. I have no real interest in Strictly but I have watched it with my mum many times and I feel that the only way to keep the ship up is to employ Amelia Dimoldenberg and Ania Magliano as the new hosts. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

New comic: "We never got to do it" badmachinery.com/comic/2025-1...

Last day for Xmas Topatoco orders. I note that there are two (2) copies of NEMS 1968 left in my store (topatoco.com/sgr)

It's time! Behold the Christmas hedgehog! From Verdun, Bibl. mun., ms. 0107, f. 008. Our thanks as always to @etreharne.bsky.social who found her.

I'm reissuing a classic - no bonus tracks

New comic: "The queen of boogie-woogie" badmachinery.com/comic/2025-1...

NEMS 1968 and Savage Sword of Susan now available at Topatoco badmachinery.com/2025/12/16/n...

If you're a Webtoon user, Solver has now been running there for a couple of months in a phone-friendly format. Please tell your phone-friendly format friends. www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/so...

When I interviewed Spinal Tap and Marty DiBergi this summer, none of them broke character, for the whole hour. Except Rob Reiner, once, losing it when Michael McKean's David St Hubbins talked about minimalism. I didn't use this in the feature and hadn't published any audio, but this is joyful.

These are great, very well researched pieces, a bit like Stereogum's "The Number Ones" for old computer games. Excellent reading.

New comic: "Back back back" badmachinery.com/comic/2025-1...

I repost purely because it is one of my very favourite things from my time in comic books: Lottie and Claire on the @gurihiru.bsky.social variant cover for the 2020 series Wicked Things.

I've found the perfect ad copy. It's so soothing that I think it would cure you without your having to buy the remedy described within. I give you: Blue Jay Corn Plasters

New comic: "Bip Bop" badmachinery.com/comic/2025-1...

"Looks good, tastes good, and it certainly does you good" www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8T2...

I often see people say that they keep their Facebook account going "or they'll lose contact with people". I understand the fear completely but I've not been on Facebook for 14 years and have yet to be cast out into the void by anyone but people I didn't actually have any meaningful relationship with

When timelines diverge

YOURS AS IN ROCK, NEW COMIC: "The Great Africa Dope Burn" badmachinery.com/comic/2025-1...

New comic: "Non-fine wine" badmachinery.com/comic/2025-1...

Here is the GROTZILLA lore so far... mini print for a poster event- grotzilla UP NORF the world's greatest fanart by the mighty @badmachinery.com (framed in my studio!) super grotty mini poster merch that should exist also by badmachinery (go buy all his comics!)

New comic: "Only the best looking ones" badmachinery.com/comic/2025-1...

The increasingly half-hearted Cat and Girl holiday store is now up! Your once or twice a year chance to get personalized items, my once or twice a year chance to clear up some closet space. Will this be the year someone buys the licorice eyebrows tin? catandgirl.com/attic-shoppe/

It's interesting that a lot of the things in this ad haven't gone up that much in 42 years. A 2025 Asda black forest gateau (620g) is £2.98. I know it's not Bird's Eye but I defy you to tell the difference. £1.35 in 1983 is £4.63 now. 50 cocktail sausage rolls at Sainsburys are £2 today! JAM TODAY!

New comic: "Start somewhere more realistic" badmachinery.com/comic/2025-1...

New comic: "Silly moo" badmachinery.com/comic/2025-1...

I use Powerpoint so infrequently that every time I have to use it, I find I have forgotten how. I dig out the last Powerpoint I made, years earlier, and it seems competent. Who made this, I think, and what happened to him? Every time. Same every time. If only Clippy was still here to help. CLIPPY!

Today and tomorrow, one last chance to enjoy my "little jokes"

New comic: "Enjoy the ride" badmachinery.com/comic/2025-1...

Christmas just isn't the same without the Sky TV EPG festive music. Until Jonny Trunk puts out a box set of all these hits, this 2h23 Youtube video will have to do. www.youtube.com/watch?v=r97U...

Vvhat a family

Next to my Brian Wilson print on the stairs I have three (3) Jonathan Edwards prints and let me say, dear friends, that I regret hanging none (0) of them

I have this print hanging at the foot of my staircase, it's a "ding dang" beauty if I do say so myself.

I have two events with Gosh Comics in London this weekend, I promise to be merry at both, but not so merry as to offend * Drink and Draw Friday evening * KILL OR BE QUILT signing Saturday at 2pm

You “pop” types badmachinery.com/comic/2025-1... HAPPY SEXUAL WELSHMAN DAY

In The Pull, I wrote about my buys, recommendations, and curiosities from the week of comics, including Batman/Green Arrow/The Question: Arcadia #1 as my Comic of the Week and The Great British Bump-Off: Kill or Be Quilt as my Trade/Graphic Novel of the Week.

ICYMI The @goshcomics.bsky.social and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Again IN PERSON – Meet Our Guest Artists @badmachinery.com, @larapickle.bsky.social and @marxtafford.bsky.social on Friday, November 28th. #GoshBFDD www.brokenfrontier.com/drink-draw-n...

If you're in London on Friday, this will be fun, looking forward to drawing with some of you and the good people of @goshcomics.bsky.social goshlondon.com/the-gosh-blo...

Comics artists who work with writers, I am doing a class for young comics writers and I would like to include some ANONYMOUS quotes from artists about things they hate getting in scripts. More "17-panel pages and cross dialogue" than "horses and bicycles". My DMS are open. SECRECY ASSURED.

If you're in London on Friday, this will be fun, looking forward to drawing with some of you and the good people of @goshcomics.bsky.social goshlondon.com/the-gosh-blo...

This is always a big source of bargs and I love bargs even when the bargs are my own books for I am very selfless and zen