Good times at Markfield Road Festival. Much art was arted.

Late addition to the Uneasy art show at the All Good bookshop on Turnpike Lane, a pricey giclee print of my 'Doomstrolling' strip, in which I take the much missed Yoshi dog for a somewhat fanciful walk around the streets of Seven Sisters.

This weekend, starting Friday eve is The Markfield Road Festival, a fantastic creative wingding just around the corner from my place. there's live music and art and a bit of carnival and discussions, and best of all is Gaunson Studios throwing open their doors to let us wander around and gawk. Come!

Just out- All Is Not Well, an anthology of comics about caregiving, homelessness and disability edited by Jonathan Clode and Ryan Prout of Cardiff University. My bit, 'Loss of Habitat' is in there, alongside work by Ilya and Bern Campbell and Brick and others giving inky voice to real experience.

Are you over 16, based in the UK and make comics - or intend to make comics - for public consumption. If so, the UK Comics Creator Survey has some questions for you. All responses to the survey are completely anonymous and will help advocate for better support and more funding in comics.

Coverage of the show we haven't put up yet!

So glad I share a birthday with this lovely lady it saves so much effort on my part. Cheers everybody!

Post Goshfest cat appreciation with Sean and Alex and Fred and George.

Our second gallery of #CartoonistsforG4za art is online. Cartoonists for Gaza Part 2 – Solidarity in Ink with Palestine from the Comics Community, Including Work from Krent Able, Charlie Adlard, Danny Noble, Fumio Obata and Corinne Pearlman. www.brokenfrontier.com/cartoonists-...

DON'T FORGET THIS SATURDAY AT @goshcomics.bsky.social FROM 5-6pm HOUR OF THE HUNKS (me and @douglasnoble.bsky.social and @frasergeesin.bsky.social and @seanazz.bsky.social and @marxtafford.bsky.social and @danwhite.bsky.social and @patrickwray.bsky.social)

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

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

May have had a little whoopsy with the ink there but I'm sure no-one will notice...

How many hunks can one table hold? From 5-6, find @seanazz.bsky.social, @grthink.bsky.social, @marxtafford.bsky.social, @danwhite.bsky.social, @frasergeesin.bsky.social, @patrickwray.bsky.social, @johnnyriordan.bsky.social and this guy. Get to @goshcomics.bsky.social on the 30th of August!

What kind of world is it that produces a Warren Oates movie poster calendar, back in 2022, and doesn't tell me about it? A rotten, low down miserable world, that's what kind of world.

Observer article about the collapse of Unbound and the fallout from it. Uses decidedly more reasonable language than the couple of affected authors I know would use. What a mess.

See you at the end of the month for another round! With special guests Kiera Won and Leo Fox. 29th August, meet at Gosh 6.30pm, then to the Royal George for 7pm. Cheers!

We're listed on ArtRabbit! www.artrabbit.com/events/uneas...

The Cartoon Museum is after a new Director! static1.squarespace.com/static/636d0...

We're putting on a show! September! At the All Good Bookshop on Turnpike Lane! Prepare yourselves!

New New New! Arriving through the mail today. Something Wanted- a lil' sketchbook zine of sketchy business. Available soon.

A mere 3 days to go on a Kickstarter for a new book by that Donya Todd! Give it your love. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ave...

Well, i mean, I haven't read the autopsy report, and I'm not a trained medical examiner, but I think i could take a guess on this one...

Sister Jo, my uncle John and me in Hammersmith earlier. John's 92. He once stood on the deck of a ship as an atom bomb test went off. It was OK, they were told to turn their backs to it. So that's alright. Looks fine on it. Healthier than me anyway.x

Ripple in the Dark by @marxtafford.bsky.social & by me. The 13th issue of A Pocket Chiller. Swimming in the dark, a woman waits for you with stories and questions. Can you answer? Do you know about the final case of the Everything Agency? Get it digitally and physically at linktr.ee/apocketchiller

Heh. enjoying the Osees glastonbury set on Iplayer, thinking 'i like this, I might buy an album' and, jesus,checking them out there are 29 albums or so, under different names, since 1997. I think I needed to have started liking them 20 years ago. It's just too late now.😃

Well, last night was fun. About the right level of messy. Barely anybody died. So it's happening again. This time with Crom and Clio Isadora Be there!

Spraycan advice from Tottenham.

Awww. Trio of lesser spotted comics folk at the Collosive party. John Miers, Andy Oliver and Nick Abadzis.

Ach, the tension! Ilya's Romo the WolfBoy kickstarter nears it's target with under two days to go... Will be doing art on the stretch goals if they happen.

Well there's lovely. Entirely unbidden, Mr Rory Milne created a wikipedia page for me. J'existe! At last! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_St...

Last week at Broken Frontier... The @goshcomics.bsky.social and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns IN PERSON – Celebrate 10 Years of Our D&D Event with Guests Mark Stafford, Lucy Sullivan and Dominique Duong on Friday, June 27th. #GoshBFDD www.brokenfrontier.com/gosh-comics-...

It's amusing to recall all the commentators, when asked about the Trump/Musk whitehouse back in January, saying 'I give that about 6 months.' This must have been the most predictable political outcome of 2025.

I mean.... Bloody hell.

Ink. Getting into the roots.

Oh yeah, this is happening! I'll be hosting the GOSH/Broken Frontier Drink and Draw events at the Royal George from June-November. First one with Lucy Sullivan and Dominique Duong. Do come. Get messy.

Bryan Talbot's Grandville series has won the 2025 Prix Graphique. The ActuSF Prize for Uchronia is a French literary award rewarding the best works relating to alternative history yearly since 2011. The prize will be given the weekend of Sept 20th-21st, at the Hypermonde Festival in Mérignac.

Sonic kitty.

Recent commission, It's the scribe of the seven seas! And various salty dogs. And cat. Avast!

Parsing exactly what's going on with this poster has taken up far more of my brainspace than it should have since it appeared. I mean, I missed whatever it was and I'm not sure how I feel about that. Mostly relieved, I guess.

Great show of paintings at the PM/AM gallery on Eastcastle Street round the corner from the Cartoon museum. Love the colours. Bit Ryan Heshka. She's a Sri Lankan artist, but the gallery's website hasn't got her info yet. It's on for a month though. Photos by Dave Elliott because my phone died.

Just slipping LORENZO freaking MATTOTTI in there like that's not like slipping Godzilla into the line up at Party In the Park... downthetubes.net/lakes-intern...

Flower Power by the great Chris Reynolds. The 23rd issue of A Pocket Chiller. People are disappearing again. The prowl car detectives are on the case. Could it be to do with a series of paintings of flowers, or is there something else in the frame? Get it digitally at linktr.ee/apocketchiller

Aw-good news!

Will the rendering never end?

Inking.

Hefty article about the current state of comics publishing under Trump's tariffs and Diamond's dissolution. 'Nobody knows' is the general sentiment. It all seems corrosive and destabilising to an industry with razor thin margins. Happy days. www.tcj.com/comics-and-t...

And HERE's the cover of 'Bog People' the Chatto/Windus anthology I have a story in. designed by Nathaniel Hebert of Hellebore magazine. It'll be out in October, but should you wish to pre-order a copy go here: www.penguin.co.uk/.../bog-peop... All very exciting.

Ripple in the Dark by @marxtafford.bsky.social & by me. The 13th issue of A Pocket Chiller. Swimming in the dark, a woman waits for you with stories and questions. Can you answer? Do you know about the final case of the Everything Agency? Get it digitally and physically at linktr.ee/apocketchiller