My books cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com

So the run in to xmas starts with the first of several visits to farm shops and garden centres over the next few weeks

and of course, I automatically zoom in on the gig posters.

So loss making OpenAI is now begging for US government money to finance its research based on unproven promises of riches to follow at some unspecified date. Is anyone else recalling renaissance alchemists persuading rich patrons to support them because they'd be turning lead into gold any day now?

Vibe Check - Which one are you today?

Inspired by the brave frog protesters sandwich throwers and a nod to banksy www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1756...

A really great opportunity to receive funding to study for a PhD at one of the UK's leading Arts & Humanities colleges @unibirmingham.bsky.social! Applications due 27 February 2026. www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/schola...

Can you hear the buzzing of the transformer on a neon sign?

A New Yorker cover shouldn’t make me feel like this, but here it is, making me feel like this

The world is watching.

When I get my time machine.

pete’s wish is for you to come see pete international airport this thursday 11/06 at the mission theater in portland!

don't forget to vote and make art

I’ve just launched my #Christmas Gift Guide Here’s an offer that might tempt you to have a look www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/christmas-gi...

"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain." This James Baldwin quote is hitting harder than ever.

1980, Brian's Diner, Liverpool, The Archdrude📸 Mike Laye/The Face

Oh ar.

I had this sign up last night. Every so often, I would hear - at the top of some kid's voice - HOPE YOUR KITTY IS BETTER SOON

www.outsavvy.com/event/31222/... Superb lineup for this Fatt Projects fundraiser - they paid all their artists before getting paid by MCR Pride. There's a "with you in spirit" supporters ticket if you can't make the gig in Birmingham.

Just came across the “bean soup theory” & feel resonance. Someone shared a bean soup recipe online & people commented ‘I don’t like beans’ & ‘can I substitute the beans’. It’s now become a byword for individualism & the self-centred internet. Not everything is about you. Bean soup 🥣

If you're stuck for a film this Halloween, Hammer's YouTube channel will be live streaming their 4K restoration of Quatermass 2 this evening. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOdy...

HappyToast Halloween Print Sale, lots of horror related A4ish pictures, £10 each, 2 for £15 or 3 for £20. Not many of each, DM me. For clearer pictures check my site. I'll add a reply saying if any are sold out, so check before ordering.

If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...

I think this may be the finest thing I have ever written.

Daily bunny no.3124 offers you a balloon

"The English profs keep sweeping our work under the rug, but that rug is about three feet off the floor by now, and things are coming out from under it and eating the English profs." (Ursula K. Le Guin, Prospects for Women in Writing, 1986)

When it's Halloween Week but you still have to go to work. #FilmSky

A halloween books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Just sorted out a box of mainly punk & new wave for the same bargain deal £3 each or 5 for £10* *excludes Cupa Soup

My Brutalist Christmas cards are back by popular demand! Get yours here www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/christmas-ca...

The spookiest of all the Manderley Press titles… If you need convincing just ask @realgdt.bsky.social - and check out his new film and special literary edition of Frankenstein at the same time - the perfect #Halloween treat! Special Gothic giftwrapping of this title at ManderleyPress.com 💙📚#bluesky

We always try to get Nine Lessons shows beyond London - it is never profitable but we hope it makes it accessible for others - This year is CARDIFF - but no one seems to want to come - so we will pull it next week if we see that it is going to lose us too much money www.glee.co.uk/performer/ni...

It has come to our attention that some websites have been selling our merchandise without our permission, claiming that it’s official and that the money raised comes directly to us. Unfortunately, this isn’t true

Seasonal reminder, Pumpkins make Hedgehogs sick, so don't leave any out where they can reach them.

ANNOUNCING : The Nightingales U.K. Tour Feb 2026. I’ve selected some of our favourite spots to play our first headline dates in 3+ years! Come show us lot some love eh? We’ve missed you. Tickets will go on sale Friday 10AM 🥁⚡️ www.thenightingales.org.uk/live

Peter Murphy danced with a strobe light at the show, helping to create this ghostly image. THREAD 5of5

Morning all! youtu.be/ZOh_2FhOApw?...

who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.

I made a Patreon post all about the process of drawing a comic with nothin' but ink-dipped nibs and alcohol markers - including every embarrassing mistake made along the way! www.patreon.com/leirin ✒️

Hear ye! hear ye! MATMOS and Joe Westerlund will perform this Saturday night in Durham, NC at The Pinhook! Come through y’all!

"Ball wasn’t just a bloke from Blackpool – he, too, was a radical, as bold and as forward-thinking as any of his contemporaries." Thanks to @paddyclarke.bsky.social for this lovely tribute to Dave Ball of Soft Cell and The Grid thequietus.com/news/remembe...

can't stop looking at this photo of Jacob Elordi in full Frankenstein's Creature makeup hugging his exasperated-looking dog

Some very nice LP’s in this morning

Eric’s Vinyl and Coffee. Southampton’s finest independent record store.

It's October and next week the clocks go back as we slowly slide towards the days of shorter light. So we're delighted that next week we'll be launching our Wintering Well Boxes, which are FREE loanable kits containing SAD therapy lamps, activity guides and other resources.