Just finished this Storm vs Sentinel illustration as a follow up piece to the Jean Grey one I did last year. Who should I do next?

Tell you what, kids absolutely LOVE The Phoenix. We’re in Windermere for LICAF and the whole town is awash with families, kids festooned with Phoenix badges, clutching comics and books, excitedly ticking off the shop window art displays.

Good heavens! @jesselonergan.bsky.social - this is mind blowing out-of-this-world work! Inspiring use of the grid in relentless innovation - really blown away by it page after page. Bravo!! 1/2

A recent cartoon for @newscientist.com p.s. my new book of science cartoons 'Physics for Cats' is out now. Visit www.tomgauld.com for details

"Over 50k people have arrived in the UK on small boats since Labor came to power." So what? Around 50k people arrive in the UK EVERY SINGLE MONTH from uteruses! Seriously, earnestly, genuinely: so what?

One of my favorite little sketch Graphite on paper Cassowary #art #birds #nature

Never forget that Norman Rockwell, debatably the most famous American artist to ever put brush to canvas, was not afraid to show the ugliness along with the good. Having his work/reputation sanitized and trimmed into marketable nostalgia is about American as it gets.

In honour of #FatBearWeek.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Fall colours be like.. Skinny dip, La Verendrye. Oil, resin on panel, 2016. (30" x 30") sarahhattonartist.com/paintings/ #CANartist #art #artshare #nature #selfportrait #womensart #canadianart #artists #painting #painters #CanadaSky 🇨🇦

Thanks to this Cinema Tyler video for introducing me to the extraordinary political cartoons of Ron Cobb, who was also the production designer for ALIEN! Some satire stays fresh for decades... The Hidden Satire in ALIEN'S Production Design: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQWH...

🧪🦣🏺 People have been wondering about this as a "wouldn't it be amazing if..." possibility for DECADES, and now it seems meticulous work may be making it a reality! #Archaeology is truly a science of wonder 🤩 [my Q is whether it's possible to distinguish painters from later touchers-of-art...]

Thraex wiped the floor with Scissor 44-10 and will proceed to the next round. Now for the last pair-up before the finals: ♥️Like for GLADIATRIX ♻️RT for CESTUS

The dragon from the 1958 Mugnaini-illustrated edition of 'Beowulf'. #BookologyThursday #dragon #monster #folklore #legend

I feel very lucky to have had the chance to get a good look at this during production and I'd urge any discerning comic fan to buy this, it's the absolute gold standard of indie comics. Explosive, dynamic cyberpunk that tackles corporate colonialism head on.

Got a new piece in @goodtape.com on some of the best journos & podcasters covering AI right now: like @bcmerchant.bsky.social @parismarx.com @404media.co @edzitron.com & more. Check it ouuuut....

This animation makes me a happy camper: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T8c...

In a surprise victory, crafty Retiarius nets mighty Murmillo! Retiarius will proceed to the next round. But first... Today's match: ♥️Like for THRAEX ♻️RT for SCISSOR

Like for Retiarius, RT for Murmillo. I'll declare the victor in the morning.

One of my favourite covers we’ve done, inspired by one of my favourite covers of all time. By Massimo Carnevale

🐍 Drop some SNAKES

🐍 Drop some SNAKES

These books are GORGEOUS and I already thought Applegate was great but coming out of the gate on these rereleases by CREDITING THE COVER ARTIST IN THE FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT POST?! Top tier. The movement in these morph drawings is just incredible. The youth are gonna eat this up.

In which I talk with @comicbookyeti.com about comics, science communication, and my new book Pets Tell Tales! www.comicbookyeti.com/post/jordan-...

One of the challenges of drawing an anthropomorphic brain is what to do with the brain stem. #sciart

A hard truth of science communication is that knowledge and attitudes (to say nothing of behavior) are not intrinsically linked. A panel from my 2017 comic on the intersection of science and religion, free to read: jordancollver.myportfolio.com/comics #sciart

Next up is RETIARIUS vs. MURMILLO! Declare your champion...

It’s here! Such a thrill to hold the book in my hands: “The Communicating Scientist” with my illustrations inside. It’s the kind of book I wish I had when I was a PhD student, and I’m glad to have it as a reference as a communications professional #SciComm 🧪 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Without Noel Sickles, there's no Milt Caniff, no Alex Toth, no Frank Robbins. He's the source for a huge slice of how comics are drawn.

Cool! Pets Tell Tales has been featured on BookTrust: www.booktrust.org.uk/book-recomme...

Happy September Equinox! Today the dividing line between day and night runs exactly from the North pole to the South pole, and the sun is directly over the equator. This is an actual image of the Earth today, taken from the Himawari-8 satellite.

In which I talk with @comicbookyeti.com about comics, science communication, and my new book Pets Tell Tales! www.comicbookyeti.com/post/jordan-...

Seeing a lot of people lately acting like Marvel/DC’s recent books with queer characters in them are like the first #LGBTQ superhero books This is far from the case. Not even my series was first. But if you want a whole superhero team of queer heroes, you should check out The Pride amzn.to/3n1G0NI

Okay so I have tallied the most liked/reposted of these gladiators and matched them up in a daily ROYAL RUMBLE! First up is Provocator (the most popular) vs. Gallus (secondmost). You decide... WHO WOULD WIN?

It's cheating but, in the words of Gimli: "I asked for one hair from her golden head... she gave me three."

That cape/bat symbol design!

This is well worth reading this (& it’s great news!), but @thebookseller.com needs to separate out manga sales from adult graphic novel sales for its data. It does a disservice to manga, it’s not reflective of manga readership, and it’s unhelpful for knowing wider trends in comics.

A drink'n draw doodle from way back in 2015, when I had time/energy to go out. And my cover to @rikworth.bsky.social's book about the sung and unsung creators of Batman: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-... #BatmanDay

We would have just had Jet but apparently our audience “wouldn’t get it” because she was on telly “20 years before they were even born” Doesn’t sound right to me.

Today we visited the two Lascaux replicas, words can’t do them justice! 🥹😭 Both were amazing in their own way: the older one felt intimate and sits right by the original cave, while the newer one is stunningly precise thanks to modern scanning. The photos are from the smaller exhibits afterwards.

Stellar stuff.

Old Bats for Old Bats Day. #batmanday

And the final gladiator: Gladiatrix a.k.a "The Lioness" Rare female gladiator. Roman historians mocked the idea of women fighters and Emperor Septimius Severus banned them. (Had to use my imagination for this one because I couldn't find any historical reference images!)

There is going to be a lot of discourse today. And, you can get involved. Or you can look at “Couple on the rocks” by Donald Teague. I’m not a scientist but I think the second option is much better for you.

What happens in a story is less important than the *way* it's told through the comics form.

Gladiator of the Day: Gallus a.k.a. "Handsome Hank" Prisoners of war from Gaul, forced to fight in the arena. Before Caesar's time, Gallus was the most formidable. Fought in their local armour.

#Zavacephale. A very pretty new pachycephalosaur from early Cretaceous Mongolia. 🥰

Working on the next piece of the "animals in the move" series for @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social #art #sciart #bats 🦇

exoplanets... #Nostos #Unflattening 2 - in progress I mean, we can discover planets around other stars - a key reminder of what we are capable of and this universe we inhabit...

Reminds me of a line in The Blackberry movie, of all places, that "good enough" is the enemy of humanity. And a good reminder that the Luddites were badasses who didn't oppose technology out of some misguided attempt to hold back progress, but because they actually *cared* about the end product.