Excited to be off to @comicartfestival.bsky.social for the first time this weekend! I'll have copies of ✏️ Graphic Novel Builder: The illustrated guide to making your own comics 👾 Gamish: A Graphic History of Gaming 📽️ Filmish: A Graphic Journey Through Film 🌮 Interstellar Taco Truck! Come say hi!

Damn, look how many of you have filled in the survey in its first week! (Yes I *have* made a respondent-meter like it’s a village hall fundraiser - let me have my little whimsies) If you have ten mins to join in the fun, the link is here: ukcomicscreators.org.uk

“They want to build a genie to grant them wishes, and their wish is that nobody ever has to make art again. They want to create a new kind of mind, so they can force it into mindless servitude.” This by @anthonymoser.com goes so fuckin hard anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

“They want to build a genie to grant them wishes, and their wish is that nobody ever has to make art again. They want to create a new kind of mind, so they can force it into mindless servitude.” This by @anthonymoser.com goes so fuckin hard anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

Super excited to have a comic in this month’s @chemistryworld.com magazine, alongside a great article by Rupo Mapanga. Both are about the power of science comics, with mine offering a guide for scientists looking to translate their research into the comics form www.chemistryworld.com/careers/comi...

Check out my new mini-comic! Available in print and digital on my website.

Out of curiosity, do most US authors / comic creators submit their work to the US copyright office as a matter of course? Or are a lot of people going to be shit out of luck like me?

This is worth reading if you’re wondering where you stand as an author whose work was ripped off by Anyhropic. Looks like, as I was worrying, that I’ll probably not get a payout since my work wasn’t registered with the US copyright office.

Labour to designate “going all floppy” a terrorist act.

🌟 IT LIVES! 🌟 The UK Comics Creator Survey is BACK, baby! Here to gather up, analyse and disseminate your data to help uplift the comics world, like if Robin Hood was a statistician or something. ukcomicscreators.org.uk

I think, in light of all the rotten people out there spreading terf nonsense, today would be a good day to support trans creators. Trans folk, please add your links to this thread for books or crafts or whatever you do!

Homework is basically just teaching kids to have a shitty work-life balance and to work for free outside their contracted hours.

Something special today at BF! Raging Against the Machine: Comics and Generative AI “Art” (Interlude) – Read @tomhumberstone.com Tom Humberstone’s Comic ‘I’m a Luddite! (And So Can You!)’ on AI Art, Luddism and Activism Here at BF. www.brokenfrontier.com/raging-again... #NoToAIArt

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used. As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how Part 1: is your work in Libgen? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

I am excited to announce the Games for Palestine charity bundle page is now live!!! Over 300+ games with proceeds going to UNRWA USA in support of Gaza relief. Thank you to everyone for your support. The bundle launches on Sept 2nd 9am PST. Link: itch.io/b/2979/play-...

UK comics folk! How do you measure your 'visual contributions' to your own graphic novels when submitting a work to @alcs.co.uk? i.e. is a single page featuring multiple panels 1 contribution, or do you count each panel? Also, your yearly reminder that ALCS rocks and you should sign up!

Digital edition of my new mini-comic only £2 until midnight tonight with code: TACOTIME Don’t miss out!

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

I've probably not shouted about this enough. Did you see I have a new mini-comic out? 🌮 - 24 pages of all-ages sci-fi adventure! 🌮 - Goofy alien designs! 🌮 - Food glorious food! I'd love for you to check it out! This weekend only use the discount code TACOTIME to get the digital download for £2!

COVER REVEAL 🍷🩸🫀🌒✨ A new choose-your-own romance for adult readers, out this September. - Dating sim vs gothic novel energy - Be & romance any gender - Multiple endings for the main vampires + lots more romanceable NPCs Pre-orders & INCREDIBLE guest art previews: hari-illustration.com/natvc #natvc

I've probably not shouted about this enough. Did you see I have a new mini-comic out? 🌮 - 24 pages of all-ages sci-fi adventure! 🌮 - Goofy alien designs! 🌮 - Food glorious food! I'd love for you to check it out! This weekend only use the discount code TACOTIME to get the digital download for £2!

Not really made FOR my BlueSky followers but might be helpful or not

I just posted a new issue of my newsletter Thumbnails! Featuring actual thumbnails from my new comic Interstellar Taco Truck! Check it out here... thumbnails.beehiiv.com/p/thumbnails...

Hey the new Kickstarter is live! www.kickstarter.com/projects/chr... Physical book is £18 Digital book is £12 That's it for main tiers. Keeping it super simple to make things easier at the fulfilment stage. Feel free to add some digital rewards on though if you like!

I just posted a new issue of my newsletter Thumbnails! Featuring actual thumbnails from my new comic Interstellar Taco Truck! Check it out here... thumbnails.beehiiv.com/p/thumbnails...

Reading Graphic Novel Builder, which I picked up from @edwardross.bsky.social at Sequential Scotland. It's aimed at 11+ years and I'm definitely in the distant far end of that "plus" bracket there, but I'm just going to assume I'll get over four times as much knowledge from it as a result.

Just make it exist first, you can make it good later.

In Edinburgh this weekend? Quindrie Press is holding a mini comic pop-up event at POP Coffee, just off Lothian Road, on Sunday August 10th! There'll be a whole host of Quindrie artists and you'll even be able to get a discount on POP's speciality coffees. See you there! 🫖🐉

Ah, come on! You know you want it!😁 The ALTIPLANO Original Cover is still available at the Kickstarter campaign!!! 😱😱😱 please share awaaayyyy!!!🙏🏽 #PeruvianCyberpunk #originalart www.kickstarter.com/projects/gus...

**FINAL 4 HOURS!** Last call to back BOXES Vol. 4 on Kickstarter! We are within £500 of our goal. BOXES is an anthology that showcases exciting UK based cartoonists. You can help bring this latest issue to life by backing it here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/thi... Thanks!

Lil modest haul from @sequential-scot.bsky.social mostly @firstmadekit.bsky.social @catsinook.bsky.social and @edwardross.bsky.social

Sequential was SO good! Here's our wee haul🙏ft. @jofamo.bsky.social @edwardross.bsky.social @juliecampbelldraws.bsky.social @artmonkeymg.bsky.social @homenzinho.bsky.social @ceedavies.bsky.social @eoosterhous.bsky.social @gustaffovargas.bsky.social @henrywiddicombe.bsky.social @sophmog.bsky.social 💜

Good morning, chums! It’s once again the weekend, so you probably know the drill by this point. If you’re new to making comics, our DMs are open all weekend for advice or feedback regarding writing, art or the industry itself!

Down to the last 4 days on the BOXES Vol. 4 Kickstarter! We’re 2/3 funded. It feels close now! Can you help us push us towards the funding goal for printing this anthology full of stellar creators? Check the funding page here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/thi... Thanks! 📦📦📦

This weekend @catsinook.bsky.social and I will be exhibiting at @sequential-scot.bsky.social art festival ! It’s my first event in a while and I’m real excited.

Me and Bark Mage are travelling to Glasgow tomorrow for @sequential-scot.bsky.social THIS Saturday!! ✨✨✨ Come find us in the artist alley, table 2 at the Double Tree Hilton, Glasgow Central. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Excited to see you all there!! #sequentialscotland

Thanks everyone who has ordered a copy so far! Sent out a first batch of copies today!

"Boxes has established itself as the premier UK periodical showcase for the indie scene" Thanks @andywpoliver.bsky.social!

Just two weeks until my 'Build a Graphic Novel' workshop at @edbookfest.bsky.social! Aimed at young people aged 12-14 interested in making comics! www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...

Hey! Check out my new all-ages adventure comic... 🌮 INTERSTELLAR TACO TRUCK! 🌮 Issue 1 is out now for digital download! Or you can pre-order issue #1 for UK delivery when copies arrive. www.edwardross.co.uk/shop

Come say hello at Table 66 at the Hilton Double Tree Glasgow 2nd August @sequential-scot.bsky.social . I look a wee bit like Lorcan from Stramash except I am shorter and have no scar and if my face is red it’s poor diet not an artistic choice. There are a load of other exciting exhibitors as well

excited to be tabling at sequential scotland on saturday along with my friends who are actual professional comics artists–i will have a selection of zines and a deeply silly new interview with the vampire related item x pls come!

Hey! Check out my new all-ages adventure comic... 🌮 INTERSTELLAR TACO TRUCK! 🌮 Issue 1 is out now for digital download! Or you can pre-order issue #1 for UK delivery when copies arrive. www.edwardross.co.uk/shop

Just two weeks until my 'Build a Graphic Novel' workshop at @edbookfest.bsky.social! Aimed at young people aged 12-14 interested in making comics! www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...

For the first time in many years, I'm self-publishing a comic! INTERSTELLAR TACO TRUCK Set in a sci-fi world of outlandish alien food, the comic combines good cooking with adventure, humour and heart. 🌮 Perfect for readers aged 8-12! 🌮 28 pages, full colour!

some more helpful reminders from 2016 me who knew more than i do now #reruns

If my copies arrive in time, I'll be bringin' this with me to @sequential-scot.bsky.social in Glasgow THIS WEEKEND!

For the first time in many years, I'm self-publishing a comic! INTERSTELLAR TACO TRUCK Set in a sci-fi world of outlandish alien food, the comic combines good cooking with adventure, humour and heart. 🌮 Perfect for readers aged 8-12! 🌮 28 pages, full colour!

I’ll be tabling at this! Next to @edwardross.bsky.social and @julesscheele.bsky.social