I’ll have a few copies of this at my table too! If you like mutant skateboarders, horrible little thieves and bugs having existential crises, you’ll like this book!

THE anthology to grab this weekend!!

We've had reports of scam emails relating to hotels booked for this weekend and wanted to send out a warning; please be vigilant! If you receive an email relating to a booking we suggest you call your hotel directly, through a number found independently, to verify its authenticity.

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH review! GREB: The Little Guys Anthology – A Collection of Short Comics Stories from MD Penman, Will Morris, Flo Woolley, April Newton and More. @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social @mdpenman.bsky.social #ThoughtBubbleatBF25 www.brokenfrontier.com/greb-the-lit...

THIS WEEKEND!!

Worse still than the actual ad itself is just the naked dishonesty of cooking up a fake making-of video for it. Actively misleading people, creating a false idea of a workflow that doesn’t actually exist, all as a gaslighting defence of the indefensible. This kind of deception should be illegal.

I’m in this! Alongside about a dozen other absolute BEASTS!! Very limited copies will be available at @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social next weekend!

Sad day, this. Quindrie has been such a valuable presence in the indie comics scene in the last few years and has put out some incredible works that have elevated the UK indie comics scene on a global stage.

lol she got his ass and he knows it

Gonna be flogging my wares at @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social this year at Table B17 in Comixology Hall!! I’ll have books, including Greb, an awesome anthology assembled by @mdpenman.bsky.social that I’ve got a story in! I’m also involved with like three stamp/sticker rallies! Come on by and say hi!

I did the cover for this volume!

And now, a physical metaphor for "LLMs can be just as good as human writers and artists!" (And I know, I shared it twice. But it's just that nice!)

I done halloween’d

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

Trying to write a series of comics lectures for an MA at the moment and man it is so frustrating that so many excellent comics critical analysis websites have been broken, sold or mutated beyond recognition by the endless march of capitalism. It’s so barren compared to what it used to be.

📢 Panel starting soon! Join @pondi.bsky.social and @kingfridayjoe.bsky.social as they talk about the reality of making money as an indie comic artist. 🎤 See what other panels are happening at tagsfest.co.uk#talks

Yay. Priceless. The right column at the right time. And a gleefully English two fingers to the haters.

We are at @tagsfest.co.uk right godamn now!! 💥

All set up at @tagsfest.co.uk!

I’m gonna be at @tagsfest.co.uk tomorrow!! If you’re there, come on by and say hi! I’ve got a new single issue along with all my usual books for ya to peruse.

All set up @tagsfest.co.uk and repping a beautiful new tee by Ryan Hamill. Very relevant to my talk at 3.30pm!

Posted up at @tagsfest.co.uk all weekend, slinging wrasslin funnybooks to all and sundry! Upstairs at the Fruitmarket in Edinburgh near Waverley Station! Come git some!

The first ever VERY TINY COMICS ANTHOLOGY #1: MONSTERS is stomping over the hills and is coming to @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social in November * 25 EXCLUSIVE Very Tiny Comics * 25 Comic Artists * 25 brand new stories * 25 limited edition Very Tiny Comics * All from a gargantuan retro gumball machine

Gonna be in Edinburgh this weekend slinging fun and fine wrasslin’ comics to all comers at @tagsfest.co.uk !

Thor's helmet should emote like Asterix's, my only deeply held superhero opinion

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

I've been waiting all year to repost this 🎃

💬 PANEL ANNOUNCEMENT! Join @pondi.bsky.social and @kingfridayjoe.bsky.social as they talk about the reality of making money as an indie comic artist. 🏷️ Learn more about TAGS Fest at tagsfest.co.uk 🎤 See what other panels are happening at tagsfest.co.uk#talks

Also, the proven efficacy of home-working proved that the entire management class whose entire jobs are based on standing over people and “ensuring productivity” are not necessary, which made various influential people very nervous.

me, playing connect-the-dots in my coloring book: it's unearthed some kind of... image... a haunting representation of a dog wearing a fireman's hat. these godlike powers are beyond comprehension

Yeah. As an aside: interesting to see Grant say this in public, dismissing us all as apes… and also note that meanwhile Moore is encouraging absolutely bloody everyone to write.

Lol, fuck off Grant

Listen gang, I know that the official cartoonist uniform has been flannel shirts and/or battle jackets for a while, but I’ve seen enough episodes of Manben now that I reckon it’s time we make the leap to track jackets.

If your industry cannot survive without foregoing basic ethics, it does not deserve to survive.

Formless Star is out now! Travel to a mysterious ever-changing planet and gather data on the animals that live there. There's 60 different creatures to find, all with unique behaviours and descriptions! Get the game for free (or pay what you want) here! splendidland.itch.io/formless-star

New ink!! Absolutely made up with it.

Guaranteed this is getting pushed through ASAP and farmed out to private overseas tech companies with zero oversight.

Landlord class leaning hard into the parasite allegations, eh?

“My idea of heaven is to wake up, have a good breakfast, and spend the rest of the day drawing." Peter Falk #BOTD

No lie, I would straight up eat this like a starving cormorant.

A couple recent sketchbook pages!

📢 Exhibitor announcement: MDPENMAN (@mdpenman.bsky.social) “MDPenman is an illustrator, comic writer/artist and lecturer based in Leeds. He likes fantasy, myths, horror and enjoys nothing more than drawing weird little guys." 🏷️ Learn more about TAGS Fest at tagsfest.co.uk

If you do find your name, go here to file to get your money! www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

The shelf in full:

New editions to the wrasslin’ section in my studio!

Think I'll read this once a week forever. Patricia Routledge, I love you.

📢 Exhibitor announcement: THE LEGEND OF LA MARIPOSA (@kingfridayjoe.bsky.social) “The Legend of La Mariposa is an action-packed all-ages comedy-adventure series of self-contained graphic novels about a young luchadora walking her Road To Glory!” 🏷️ Learn more about TAGS Fest at tagsfest.co.uk

I had to go wee during Weapons and not doing The Run while I crossed in front of the screen will always be a source of regret for me.