It's 2 weeks until #TheMostAmazingSaturdayMorningRubbishClub arrives in the UK, but only 1 week until the book launch at the @arcolatheatre.bsky.social - Nov 13th, 7PM! #selfmadehero #indiecomics #graphicnovel #disabilityawareness

#TheMostAmazingSaturdayMorningRubbishClub, a moving story about disability and community from Francisco de la Mora and Bill Tuckey, reaches UK shelves in 2 WEEKS! 🔗 buff.ly/feDejoQ #disabilityrepresentation #selfmadehero #indiecomics #graphicnovel

Last week at @goshcomics.bsky.social people were lining up for #BoneBroth! Thank you to everyone who came down for a signed copy of Alex Taylor's debut graphic novel! #selfmadehero #booklaunch #indiecomics #graphicnovel #publishing

#BookoftheWeek Read George Sand: True Genius, True Woman, a fierce, luminous graphic biography of France’s most subversive 19th-c. literary star. By Séverine Vidal (words), Kim Consigny (art) & trans. Edward Gauvin (@selfmadehero.bsky.social). 👉 www.selfmadehero.com/books/george...

Arthur, Finn, and Uma - three kids who come together to found #TheMostAmazingSaturdayMorningRubbishClub - our last graphic novel of the year, by Francisco de la Mora and Bill Tuckey! 🔗 buff.ly/EFgJbrp UK: November 20th North America: November 25th! #selfmadehero #graphicnovel #indiecomics

Day off, having run several errands, it's time for a break, so pint and a wee read of @ilyagraphic.bsky.social 's Romo the Wolf Boy, which I backed on Kickstarter (it's getting a full release from @selfmadehero.bsky.social in Feb). #books #comics #BandeDessinee #GraphicNovels #livres #AmReading

An unlikely, quiet moment dedicated to the natural enemy of all restaurants... The process behind a page from #BoneBroth by Alex Taylor, out now in the UK and on December 3rd in North America! 🔗 buff.ly/DONnBi9 @firstgraphicnovelaward.bsky.social #selfmadehero #graphicnovels #indiecomics #comics

Some have already been snatched up, but here's #BoneBroth author/illustrator Alex Taylor signing copies and bookplates that may be in a bookshop near you... #selfmadehero #indiecomics #newcomics #booksigning #publishing #graphicnovel

Some flower studies by Alex Taylor for #BoneBroth!🌸🌸🌸 🌸🔗 buff.ly/cDoY6iw #selfmadehero #indiecomics #graphicnovel #illustration

One of the #BoneBroth signed bookplates spotted in the wild!

@selfmadehero.bsky.social Look what I grabbed in waterstones York!!! With a signed bookplate no less :D! I'm halfway through and having an Insanely good time w/ this book, what a treat ❤️❤️❤️

"I’m a big believer in magical wondrous things being born in the middle of normal everyday environments..." Alex Taylor's #BoneBroth is OUT NOW! Head over to the #SelfMadeHero website for an exclusive Q&A all about this breakout debut graphic novel! 🔗 buff.ly/JuPhJGH

The food is worth the wait... and there's only 1 DAY TO GO! #BoneBroth by Alex Taylor - out tomorrow in the UK, and on October 28th in North America! 🔗 buff.ly/cDoY6iw #selfmadehero #indiecomics #firstgraphicnovelaward #debutbook

Let's see what's cooking! #BoneBroth by Alex Taylor is out in the UK in 2 DAYS! (North America: October 28th!) 🔗 buff.ly/cDoY6iw @firstgraphicnovel.bsky.social #selfmadehero #indiecomics #graphicnovel #publishing

See their smiles? Their big, toothy grins? Their spine-tingling dance moves? Can't you tell they're excited for #BoneBroth being only 3 DAYS AWAY? 🍜🦴 🔗 buff.ly/cDoY6iw #selfmadehero #indiecomics #graphicnovel #publishing

How do you make something as weird and wonderful as #MyDadFightsDemons? In our newest newsletter, we decided to ask @bobbyjosephcomics.bsky.social and @abbiebsart.bsky.social all about it! 🔗https://buff.ly/QgRb4YH #selfmadehero #graphicnovel #indiecomics #publishing

It's the last day of the @waterstones.bsky.social pre-order sale! Get 25% OFF online with "OCTOBER25"! Where can you unwind, laugh, and feel inspired, all within a few panels? In #ComicTherapy: Meditations for Reflection by @kaymedaglia.bsky.social! #selfmadehero #indiecomics #newcomics #publishing

Sometimes it's all just a blur... How else could it already be just 1 WEEK until the UK release of #BoneBroth? 🔗 buff.ly/pZiASjO @firstgraphicnovel.bsky.social #selfmadehero #indiecomics #graphicnovel #publishing

There's still time to get 25% OFF three of our upcoming graphic novels by using "OCTOBER25" online with @waterstones.bsky.social! @myfanwytristram.bsky.social's #NoisyValley: The Art of Protest - a beautifully illustrated work of graphic nonfiction exploring the importance of protest. #selfmadehero

Want to know more about our lineup for Spring 2026? Check out the newest #SelfMadeHero newsletter! 🔗 selfmadehero.com/news/selfmadehero-new-season-spring-2026 @kaymedaglia.bsky.social @myfanwytristram.bsky.social #romothewolfboy #emmiearbel #noisyvalley #comictherapy #thelittleprince

Until midnight on October 17th, use 'OCTOBER25' online at @waterstones.bsky.social for 25% OFF #EmmieArbel: The Colour of Memory by Barbara Yelin! A haunting portrayal of a historical atrocity; an inspiring account of a modern friendship; a beautiful work of art; and a meditation on memory itself.

PRE-ORDER SALE! From today until midnight October 17th, use "OCTOBER25" online at @waterstones.bsky.social to get 25% OFF these upcoming #SelfMadeHero titles!

Stories true and fantastical, new and old - take a look at our Spring 2026 lineup!

Alex Taylor at Abrams & Chronicle's London office, unboxing his upcoming debut graphic novel #BoneBroth! Bone Broth will be served to the UK on October 23rd, and to North America on October 28th! 🍜 🔗 buff.ly/pZiASjO #selfmadehero #indiecomics #newcomics #graphicnovel

The party's almost here... After winning the #FirstGraphicNovelAward back in 2023, Alex Taylor's #BoneBroth is only 2 WEEKS AWAY! 🔗 buff.ly/pZiASjO @firstgraphicnovel.bsky.social #selfmadehero #indiecomics #FGNA #graphicnovel #publishing

"A short, sweet and sarcastically sharp poke at modern culture’s transient nature, mayfly attention-spans and perennially parlous state" — Now Read This! on #MyDadFightsDemons! 🔗 buff.ly/1bgOgxC @abbiebsart.bsky.social @bobbyjosephcomics.bsky.social #selfmadehero #indiecomics #graphicnovel

"Many truths apply to exploitation as much now as then... An author who still has something to say has been proudly restored to topicality by Scarlett and Sophie Rickard." @sandagnguide.bsky.social on #ThisSlavery — OUT NOW! @rickardsisters.com #selfmadehero #graphicnovel #indiecomics

October 16th at 7PM: catch @bobbyjosephcomics.bsky.social, UK Comics Laureate and author of #MyDadFightsDemons, giving this exclusive talk at the Cartoon Museum! Tickets available now! 🔗 buff.ly/vZCtRQP @abbiebsart.bsky.social #selfmadehero #indiecomics #graphicnovel #diversity #publishing

"This never-more-timely tale of the eternal injustice and biologically apologist is superbly readable, dramatically enticing and should be compulsory viewing for all – as long as we don’t force anyone…" - Now Read This! on #ThisSlavery by @rickardsisters.com! 🔗 buff.ly/U4sRgZt #selfmadehero

There's a blink-and-you'll-miss-it reference in this one... ⭐ #MyDadFightsDemons - Abbigayle Bircham & @bobbyjosephcomics.bsky.social! #selfmadehero #indiecomics #YAbook #publishing #graphicnovel #jjba #bandedessinee #indiepublishing #newcomics

#bookbirthday #TheyShotthePianoPlayer by Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal came out 1 year ago today! 🔗 buff.ly/E9y26ot #selfmadehero #bossanova #jazz #chicoandrita #graphicnovel #publishing #musichistory

Can't a kid have some privacy? The making of a page from #MyDadFightsDemons by Abbigayle Bircham and @bobbyjosephcomics.bsky.social, OUT NOW in the UK and on October 14th in North America! 🔗 buff.ly/c0kTnUn #selfmadehero #yabooks #indiecomics #graphicnovel #newcomics #publishing #bandedessinee

Last weekend was a blast - thanks so much for having me @comicartfestival.bsky.social 💕🥰 Did my first EVER panel and got to chat about starting out in comics and how I navigated (stumbled) my way into being published last week!

If you didn't get to meet her at #LICAF, here's #MyDadFightsDemons illustrator Abbigayle Bircham! 🎲🐉🖊🏕 @bobbyjosephcomics.bsky.social #selfmadehero #indiecomics #graphicnovel #meettheartist #publishing #illustrator #bandedessinee

Sounds like a great event! ⏬️

TROUBLE AT MILL! On November 8th, #ThisSlavery is being launched on a downright industrial scale! Only a few tickets are left, so BOOK NOW! 🔗 buff.ly/3zUfxuL @RickardSisters.com #selfmadehero #indiecomics #booklaunch #newcomics #publishing

The First Graphic Novel Competition 2025 Longlist Announced – Winning Entry Will Be Published by SelfMadeHero. @selfmadehero.bsky.social @firstgraphicnovel.bsky.social www.brokenfrontier.com/the-first-gr...

Well worth celebrating. ⏬️ This is a terrific retelling, in graphic novel format, of a story of working people that's iconic for the labour movement in the UK. Originally written by Dublin-born Robert Noonan (aka Tressell) in the first decade of the 20th century but rejected by publishers. There's...

... publishers @selfmadehero.bsky.social it's never been easier to read them.

Celebrated yesterdays book launch with a made to order masterpiece of a cake by donutkillmyvibesss on instagram! Super yummy and cool to see my art on a cake! @bobbyjosephcomics.bsky.social @selfmadehero.bsky.social

Get this exclusive limited edition signed bookplate when you purchase 'MY DAD FIGHTS DEMONS' @goshcomics.bsky.social - the best comic shop in London! As voted by the UK Comics Laureate! 😉 Get your copy before they run out! #diversecomics #comics @selfmadehero.bsky.social @abbiebsart.bsky.social

It's Sunday at the #LICAF Lakeside Comics Marketplace! Make sure you swing by! @rickardsisters.com @comicartfestical.bsky.social #selfmadehero #indiecomics #publishing #graphicnovels #LICAF2025

The #LICAF Lakeside Comics Marketplace is about to open! Here's today's signing schedule with us at SelfMadeHero! @RickardSisters.com @comicartfestival.bsky.social #indiecomics #licaf2025 #comiccon #graphicnovels #publishing #comics

Grab your spellbooks and smartphones - #MyDadFightsDemons is OUT NOW in the UK! (Our friends abroad can join the adventure on October 14th!) 🔗 buff.ly/3EeKP04 @bobbyjosephcomics.bsky.social #selfmadehero #outnow #booklaunch #indiecomics #graphicnovel #publishing

A heartwarming (if one-sided) reunion between parent and child! Soon you can see it for yourself - #MyDadFightsDemons arrives TOMORROW!!! @bobbyjosephcomics.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/3EeKP04 #selfmadehero #indiecomics #graphicnovel #publishing #YAbooks #booklaunch

You know it's bad when a guy who fights monsters finds teenagers unsettling... #MyDadFightsDemons is out in 2 DAYS! 🔗 buff.ly/3EeKP04 @bobbyjosephcomics.bsky.social #selfmadehero #indiecomics #newcomics #graphicnovel #YAbooks #publishing

Yeah, Rye, your dad's a reality-warping sorcerer - what's not to get? #MyDadFightsDemons comes out in 3 DAYS! 🔗 buff.ly/3EeKP04 @bobbyjosephcomics.bsky.social #selfmadehero #YAbooks #newcomics #publishing #indiecomics #graphicnovels #bandedessinee #graphicnovel #indiepublishing

Remember, the #MyDadFightsDemons launch party at @goshcomics.bsky.social is TODAY at 7PM! @bobbyjosephcomics.bsky.social Remember, you can pre-order from Gosh! here: buff.ly/85nOEo3 #selfmadehero #indiecomics #graphicnovel #booklaunch #publishing #newcomics

"An author who still has something to say has been proudly restored to topicality by Scarlett and Sophie Rickard." - #ThisSlavery, reviewed by the @sandagnguide.bsky.social! 🔗 buff.ly/GUJwdLa @rickardsisters.com #selfmadehero #indiecomics #newcomics #graphicnovel #comics #publishing