Even without covid, con-crud sucks. You can avoid it by masking and keeping hand sanitizer at your table. I don't get sick after cons anymore.

Wacom recently asked me to talk about why I make queer comics, and given there are multiple bills right now floating around in congress that are effectively "we will kill your livelihood if we get a sniff of queer" I had some pretty strong, simply feelings to relay.

@shazleenmkhan.bsky.social's impeccable comfort food webcomic BUUZA!! has finally been given the printed edition it deserves! Welcome to Salwa, a high-drama, low-fantasy world where adult-phone-line-operator Zach is about to receive a call that'll change his life!

!!!! immune compromised MC who has to do risk reduction about interacting with people 👁️👁️ honestly feel like I’ve seen this aspect of my life in media: never

anniversary drawing 🌼 near where I live, there’s a stretch of grass that’s always being stepped on, its flowers mown down by the council - but the dandelions still thrive, and the buttercup comes back bright and resilient in the borders that can’t be reached or tamed.

Oh my god, I Elizabeth Bennet-ed Pride and Prejudice—started off real wobbly, and now I would pledge my life and heart to its service. I did the thing the book was about to the book. I— Jane Austen, you saucy little so-and-so!!!

The reason that so many Labour MPs – and MPs from across parties – think that the EHRC guidance is unworkable is because it is. Read the article here: www.theguardian.com/society/2026... Email your MP today: tinyurl.com/stopthecode

chronic pain drawing

Please Use AI

anniversary drawing 🌼 near where I live, there’s a stretch of grass that’s always being stepped on, its flowers mown down by the council - but the dandelions still thrive, and the buttercup comes back bright and resilient in the borders that can’t be reached or tamed.

Hey London folks. @shazleenmkhan.bsky.social and I will be doing a conversation, Q&A and signing on July 8th, 7pm at the Common Press in Bethnall Green. This is gonna be a lovely queer event to discuss the release of Buuza!! and Go-Man 2! Get your tickets now: www.outsavvy.com/event/36997/...

Unlocked a pride blog from my webcomic era about the tension between being a ‘palatable’ queer person vs genuinely being yourself. Feels like it's only got more relevant. www.patreon.com/posts/51864812

Happy Pride! I have books on sale! For $10, you can pick up all of French Letters—yes, the title IS a joke—a trio of queer romances (x/x, m/f/x, f/x) set in magic 1820s France and told in letters and diary entries. Gender, magic, murder, letters: feliciadavin.itch.io/letterspride...

This is good news, and it matters beyond the ponds themselves. It's a reminder that, as others have said, the horrifying rollback of trans rights in the UK over the last year and change has happened wholly without a democratic mandate. When the people get a say, they demand inclusion.

Rest In Power

tiny 2cm drawings in my sketchbook

absolutely gutting. persepolis was the first comic that showed me the things you can bring to light with the act of making comics

recent figure drawings 10-15min poses ballpoint pen

To celebrate Pride Month, I’m reposting my booklist of LGTBQ graphic novels! 🌈 PS: when you order their books from bookshop dot org, some authors get a small kickback! Support indie bookstores and queer creators all in one! 🙌 bookshop.org/lists/lgbtq-...

I'm usually not great at absorbing non-fiction audiobooks, but finished a couple in the last few months I REALLY rated

Swizzels Hill 2, New Mills, Derbyshire, painting by Clare Allan.

My May book reviews are up (free patreon post) and information about THREE different federal book banning bills, all of which I urge you to call your reps about. I wrote call scripts: www.patreon.com/posts/may-20...

Our trans GP self-advocacy guide includes advice on issues related to healthcare, such as: GIC referrals, GPs misunderstanding what GICs do, bridging prescriptions, and shared care agreements (both NHS and private). www.scottishtrans.org/gp-self-advo...

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

⚠️ IMPORTANT ⚠️ A massive data centre, BIGGER than the village they want to build it next to, has been proposed in Fife. If you're in the area PLEASE file an objection to it, the damage it will do is unbearable to think about. aprs.scot/auchtertool-... 👇 More resources below👇

The museum of the Slain is a museum filled with relics of worlds that have ended. The world is always ending around the museum, and it endures, untouched, collecting the pieces and cataloguing them.

DEEPLY obsessed with this ongoing project: a website for an imaginary museum that gets stranger the closer you look. discover > guided tour takes you to this clickable narrative with the most beautiful, sometimes very funny, uncanny-(climate?-)horror fantasy writing

In the modern period drama, everyone talks about situationships and wears the same corset. Historian @ellerygillian.bsky.social has had enough:

Mirror Universe Spock but he’s aping my style instead of doing the goatee thing

Tom Gray is amazing at this sort of thing. An impassioned speech to the Ivors Academy. Inspiring stuff.

Any time a creative turns to this tech, they are saying "I do not respect the people who do this thing. I do not value their creative contribution to my vision. I think they are so worthless, they can be replaced by the machine that ate their work." It's not surprising this is seen as hostile.

losing my shit because the dev of Butterfly Soup is making a new game that's like if Pentiment was set in Chinese folklore and had a Disco Elysium skill tree, and the music is being composed by the same person who's doing Delphinium kotaku.com/butterfly-so...

illustrated adult short part 2 now out! This arc comes to its climax with more art, adult scenes, and (true to form) gothic energy, longing, & background radical history 🌠 Description & art previews at the links: ✧ haridraws.itch.io/charlatans-2 ✧ www.patreon.com/posts/157790...

as of this week I'm about 2/3rds through final art for this big graphic novel!!!!! here are some very small bits of inks from it #art #atg

You'll need to go for a long walk to calm down after you read how the UK got to here on trans rights. If you're only ever going to read one piece on trans people, this would be the one.

“We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend” is a banger. And a rallying cry for artists in the AI slop era.

yesterday 'on starlit shores' won the teen graphic award at the leeds book awards! still in disbelief but so thankful to the wonderful schools and librarians who voted and helped put an incredible day together. and look at the most beautiful plaque designed by a student!!!! 😍💕

I hate to talk about it, but I have to talk about it. Long post incoming: www.patreon.com/posts/158715...

'The text is one of our oldest magics: an austere, absurdly economical invocation—a long string of ancient glyphs, nothing more—to summon a fragment of another person’s articulated selfhood into our own' This was lovely and thought provoking.

I think Letty’s the person I’ve art collaborated with most in my life and I adore their work. if you want queer Arthurian comics, horrible and delicious scottish folk horror, or simply to feel emotions about a louse, go forth and look at these things

www.comic-con.org/awards/eisne... Eisner time for Tigers... read my webcomic it's good I swear... .......... it's a very normal comic about gay people trying to look at sea sponges..

This has been said to death but I'll just say it again: if you're in the creative arts space stop calling your art "content". Call it "work"! Calling your art "work" shows it's the result of time and skill. "Content" makes something sound like it has no purpose other than to take up space.

not drawing comic: oh how i wish i was drawing my comic drawing comic: how stupid of me, how foolish of an endeavor. each passing moment is agony. the sin of creativity which i have committed so naively has banished me to this purgatory of endless torment, that now i must draw a cash register

Here’s my Nibbies 2026 acceptance speech. Thank you to @thebookseller.com for creating the first graphic novel award, I wanted to mark that by talking about comics more widely 💖

I’m too exhausted to talk about my illness often, but for #worldMEday I wanted to reshare the comics from the time of year I do talk about it

It's Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) day of awareness. For the last 8 years, my wife has been bedbound. She can't bathe, can't watch TV, can't get herself to the bathroom, often can't speak. There are MILLIONS of people with her condition—but you never hear about it.