@dorianlynskey.bsky.social Hey Dorian, just listening to your fab Origin Story Evangelicals pt 1 podcast (sorry, we’re a bit behind!). Do you know which version of the film _Inherit the Wind_ you saw? There are four versions! Was it the one with Jack Lemmon, Kirk Douglas or Spencer Tracy?

This is important: if you’re in the UK and you care about creatives, I encourage you to sign this letter. openletter.earth/open-letter-...

One of today's political prisoners. Cartoonist & zine maker Daniel Rolando Sanchez Estrada wasn't even at the ICE protest. He was accused of "moving" a box of anti-Trump zines THE NEXT DAY. A rightwing judge sentenced him to 30 years! Just for possessing zines. The darkness is descending.

Process time! Check out my latest newsletter and follow the entire process of how I created my recent Hellraiser cover for Boom! Studios. It's all there... from thumbnail sketches through to final art!👇 open.substack.com/pub/martinsi... #artprocess #hellraiser #comics

"We're shipping so much more code with AI!" "Good, stable code?" "Oh heavens no. No no no. not at all. We couldn't possibly"

Worth bearing in mind.

This call to require AI companies to disclose their training data is the bare minimum regulation we should be demanding, but everyone should sign it. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

They’re using 1984 as the template.

Yup, I do the same.

I’m closing seanphillips.bigcartel.com this weekend for a couple of months while I finish drawing my next book…

If we really wish to prevent a Reform government it is much more important that Labour changes the voting system than replaces one wooden leader with another. At the bare minimum give us single transferable vote. yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/in-...

Brilliantly devilish news from BFI.

Can you believe it? Celebrating seven fabulous years with this wonderful lady. 💕 I love you @geengeenie.bsky.social ! A modest celebration with a meal at Shabash Indian on Friday and a walk along the seafront the following day. #seventhanniversary #shabashindian #southendseafront

Front page of every single UK newspaper today. Generative AI is theft.

With 23 years of continuous work as a letterer, and over 30 years of print/production experience, I’m now unable to find any new lettering work in comics. Please keep me in mind when staffing your creator-owned projects and please consider requesting me on your WFH projects 🙏

Please consider backing our crowd funder for this passion project being made with real love for the character but retooled for today! Pencils sneak peek :) kickstarter.com/projects/798979572/dan-dare-graphic-novel Dan Dare: First Contact graphic novel from @b7comics.bsky.social

What if they opened their mouths and killer wasps came out but also the wasps were robots and the robots had nuclear bombs in them? What then?

Heather Nova Ladyhawke Toyah Baby Bushka Clannad

Can't help thinking that this photo of Gorton & Denton Reform candidate Matt Goodwin with Steve Bannon - convicted fraudster, close friend & enabler of Jeffrey Epstein, promoter of violence to overturn a US election & admirer of Satan - has not had the coverage it deserves.

I think my brain has some kind of Mad Magazine/National Lampoon function that clicks on during dark, dismal news cycles and allows me to see the humor in them.

Then let her run. I want to be led by a single mum from a council estate in Stockport, not a bunch of nonce-enablers.

Greatest crossover episode since Dredd meets Batman: Judgment on Gotham.

R.I.P. Sal Buscema.

Maybe Greenland could invade us instead?

From last July - the story of ICE and how Trump turned into it his personal thug army podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/o...

The Power of Podmasters… Here are the most recent books bought through our affiliate bookshop, from which we learn that THE PEOPLE WANT COMICS.

pound for pound this might be the funniest thing ever written

So that’s another year almost done and dusted. Just the celebrations, the gifts, the food, the reflections and the regrets yet to come... You can read my full annual Christmas message on my Patreon page here: www.patreon.com/posts/glad-t... Lashings of yuletide love, --Gary.

In stores this Wednesday ENDEAVOUR #2 from @dstlry.bsky.social by writing wizard @stephsmash.bsky.social lettering legend @tenapolitano.bsky.social colourist beyond compare Lee Loughridge and me at the drawing board. Sorry to flood your feeds but I worked my ass off to bring you this book :)

I think we should try this, with every last one of them. See how they get on.

FREE PDF Of my Mundane Diary (Jan-Jun 2024) in the link below. It's a comic strip diary about walking the mundane outskirts of Wakefield, UK. Download it now: (61mb) drive.google.com/file/d/173xN... #DiaryComic #FreePDF #MundaneDiary #ComicStrip #IndieComics #Wakefield

At the

"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975 “It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975

A fun question. In 5 years time, what looks better? The US’s enormous bet & capex on AI? Or China’s equally enormous bet and capex on renewables?

*Optometrist hands person glasses* - “now, you wear them glasses AND YOU KEEP THEM GLASSES”

In huge positive news, the Australian government just ruled out handing the work of their country’s creatives to AI companies for free 🙌 They resisted the well-funded tech lobby & shut down proposals to upend copyright law. Other governments should do the same! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

It's been a weird year for my drawing. It kind of peaked using a computer and I wasn't able to sustain or replicate the results I was getting. With all the Ai shenanigans going on at the minute, my response is to go back to basics and draw freehand with a brush pen. Drawing direct.

My commission list is filling up so if you want one for Christmas get in quick! #petportrait #analogueart #colouredpencilart #dogportrait

Late to this, but really can’t recommend enough this episode of Origin Story w/ @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social on the Rivers of Blood speech. Scary as hell, brilliantly analysed, with lessons for all of us on the mainstreaming of the far-right podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...

Here's a better idea: every data centre you build, you build enough renewable energy to power it, and you supply the waste heat from your cooling system to power homes and businesses nearby. Simple. Common sense. And fair.

Remembering artist, writer, and general purpose loony Terry Wiley (seen here with pre-Jenny), who was taken from us 7 years ago this week. #FuckCancer photo by @millidge.com

Immigrants are a net good and more people should be saying so. Signed, an immigrant.

What gif pops up when you type in your name?

Support comics on Kickstarter. Not only do you get to feel vaguely good about yourself, but it's like a gift from past you to present you. Such a delight when they unexpectedly arrive

Is it too late to give Sacha Baron Cohen an Oscar for this? Not a damn lie told. 🇺🇸

@geengeenie and I treated ourselves to a pair of the cheap seats at Basildon Vue to see James Gunn’s interpretation of Superman…which was, predictably, brilliant. Everything from the casting to the music choices is perfect. Mister Terrific is just that and Krypto is the new Baby Groot.

Aaaargh! The blue screen of death. www.patreon.com/posts/135297...