The Alison Brown Young Comics Maestro Award 2026 is now open for entrants. Force your youths to apply themselves!

Barber's adagio for strings really loses something when you play it on the kazoo. I guess that's why it's not Barber's adagio for kazoo.

"Good morning. Can we interest you in our 'knocking things over' service? We are also skilled in random fluff distribution. "

Luxurious table real estate at the Brighton Open Market today.

Peckham.

Have just received a second printing of my fairytale comic 'Magical' Will have copies to flog at the star studded Cartoon County Spring Fair this Sunday in that Brighton. See you there, i hope.x

I would just like to take this opportunity to say to DHL Express that " We were unable to deliver your DHL Express shipment today because no one was home at the time of our attempted delivery." is an aggravating untruth. I'm here now, I was then. At the address i gave you, you useless bastards.

You're not making life easy, Fred.

We went to the Wimbledon Art Fair and mainly emerged with pictures of this dog.

Poster for this month's Gosh/Broken Frontier Drink and Draw, where I'll be joined by Katriona Chapman and Candice Purwin. Hope to see you there.x

I'll be in that Brighton for the Cartoon County Open Market Take-over at the end of the month! Not been there in yonks, looking forward to it.

I shall be in Brighton for this at the end of the month. Not been there for yonks, looking forward to it.

National bleedin' treasure Hunt Emerson has a book in the offing, celebrating over half a century of inky splendour. Textually, It's a mammoth interview with Rory Milne, visually it's a cavalcade of Emerson's nimble-lined tomfoolery recovered from the vaults. Sounds bloody marvellous.

The state of it.

Quite like this one by Alexandra Kremakova, looking perturbed by my own drawing board...

Will have table space at this beauty in July. Put it in your diaries.x

Interview with Dr Talbot in which nice things are said about me.

Bits from the Persona show at the Crypt gallery near Euston, curated by the ever alarming/magnificent Estelle Riviere . on until the 29th

Love the little gallery show of Ellis Lewis-Dragsta's work at the All Good Bookshop on Turnpike Lane. So many peculiar details and stories within paintings and playful bits of business. It's on until the 1st May.

Poster for the next Gosh/Broken Frontier Drink and Draw coming up on April 24th, with amazing guests @hamishsteele.bsky.social and @zebko.bsky.social See you there.x

Aww, glorious stuff. The... I think the correct word is 'grotty' english experience for two bright-eyed young US punk rock teens circa 1981. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uwP...

Poster for the next Gosh/Broken Frontier Drink and Draw wingding on the 20th of this fair month. See you there, I hope...

FT headline: " Wealthy Dubai residents race back to UAE to avoid tax bills. Some risk spending too few days in the emirate and too many in the UK.." Thoughts and prayers, everybody, thoughts and prayers...

Picked up Bog People from my local library on Friday and powered through it over the weekend. Superb anthology of #folkhorror - no filler, all great tales. Highly recommended. www.awesomebooks.com/book/9781784...

This Friday! The Gosh/Broken Frontier Drink and Draw with special guests Skai Campbell and the mighty Dix!

Violence!

2 x Carol Swain is a perfect intro to the elusive, intriguing work of Carol Swain. A road trip reveals troubling truths, and the spectre of war hangs uneasily over a small town. With new introductions and an interview with the artist. Available to order here: darkandgolden.bigcartel.com

Hard to place exactly what vibes I'm giving in that photo. I think it's the face I have when I've just answered the door and suspect that the caller is just about to tell me the good news about our lord Jesus Christ.

This amused me greatly 😂 especially the fox painting 😂 Thank yoooo @cheekybudgie.bsky.social

Coming soon! The first Gosh/Broken Frontier Drink and Draw of 2026 with Rein Lee and Matthew Dooley. Sharpen your pencils, wits, and whatever...

Nice to see cartoonists for Gaza picking up an award. Well done Rachael and Krent Here's hoping it doesn't need any sequels...

Review of Bog People from The Morning Star. Does this mean I'm part of the solution?

Missed that the Grauniad reviewed Bog People, favourably, back in November. Don't mention me though. The bastards.

George is largely unmoved by the plight of a fictional cat.

In a new blog post, I review the amazing work of J. Webster Sharp. https://comics.edpinsent.com/2025/12/19/space-chameleons-and-other-chimeras-of-the-mind/ "The reader is drawn into a vortex by the hypnotic flow of images, each successive tableau more outrageous than the last"

Myself and Mr Hine would like it known that we bear no ill will towards ms Frances Crawford and her TITLE-STEALING debut novel, and wish it well when it debuts next year. I mean hers is just A bad bad place, ours is THE bad bad place, so it's fine. It's all fine.... (stares daggers at the screen.)

Aaaargh jesus we're buggered.

Anyone wondering whether to pull the trigger on Clown In A Cornfield on Prime and questioning whether it fulfils its title remit can rest assured that, as of 50 minutes in, it has delivered clowns and cornfields aplenty.

Coming soon! Sharpen yr pencils! My poster for the last Drink and Draw of the year! Be there!

Welcome to my unpleasant world! Tabling at @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH review! Magical – Mark Stafford @marxtafford.bsky.social Gives Us a Typically Cynical Take on the Standards of Fairy Tales. #ThoughtBubbleatBF25 @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social www.brokenfrontier.com/magical/

The new one reviewed by Andy Oliver of Broken Frontier in time for @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social www.brokenfrontier.com/magical/

Like it says, I'll be in Harrogate this weekend for @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social 2025. I've got half a table, (C20a) between Sam Hart and Sean Azzopardi's Phatprint Comics, where I'll be flogging the new comic 'MAGICAL' amongst other things. Hope to see you there.

It's here! ' Magical' is a (cough) delightful A5 fairytale comic out just in time to ruin your Christmas. It'll be at Thought Bubble and Gosh and the Cartoon Museum soonish.

It's out! And it is a thing of disconcerting beauty. Should be available from all proper book emporiums today. Read and enjoy and spread the word.

Looking forward to tabling at the Goblin Market this Sunday. Hope to see you there.

Well, the Thought Bubble table maps have been revealed and i've graduated from Bubbleboy to Redshirts, happily between Sean Azzopardi and Sam Hart.

Work in progress. Page from 'Magical', a bit of a fairytale. Which will, gawd willing, be ready in time for Thought Bubble, possibly Winchester...

My poster for the Halloween Drink and Draw at Gosh/the Royal George on the 31st. With guests zombie Zen K and spooky Shane Melisse. I guess that makes me macabre Mark Stafford. Be there! And, uh.... Boo!

Random cool photos i found going through my cameras memory card..