Fish Man: a tragedy

Tomorrow night in my home town of Shrewsbury I’m giving a talk at the English Bridge Studios about my work and career and stuff like that.

Must be important, he's unfurled his wings.

When did everything suddenly become “storied”? And why?

Mike Wozniak for Bond, Dr Who and PM

COACH SULLY: “Shift your eyes to this monstrosity… one year. One President. Donating his salary is just a headline. It doesn’t offset the BILLIONS Trump is accumulating elsewhere.” 💰

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This is Penny. She came up with her own trick. Really hopes you like it, and will repeat it as many times as necessary until you acknowledge that you do. 14/10 (IG: pennycorgipoo)

Oh frabjous day! The return of Make It Then Tell Everybody! This is joyous news. And a useful reminder that there’s a rich supply of insightful interviews with a huge variety of comics folk (mostly) from the first time around for you to dig into/reacquaint yourself with.

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The return of Events, Dear Boy, Events I have a few in-person events (in the UK) coming up: Saturday June 27th - MACC-POW, Macclesfield Saturday July 11th - Big City Reads: Meet The Authors, Nottingham Central Library 4-6pm. Wednesday August 5th - Big City Reads (John Allison in conversation with…

I shot a man in Reno, Just to watch him die. He used his phone speaker on a bus

Hey there's a new picture book out this year, written by me... It's about a little ghost who loves to haunt things that humans make, because those things are full of care, memories and intention... And a little girl who needs to notice that her drawings count. www.walker.co.uk/978152951594...

This is Baker. He dances when it’s dinner time. 14/10 top-tier tippy taps #SeniorPupSaturday (IG: bakerbarnes)

Now do Opal Fruits

Congrats to the young writers who've sent in entries to the Henrietta Branford #Writing Competition! Everyone else, you have until tomorrow 29 May to submit: poems, stories, song lyrics inspired by a person/place you know well. @alcs.co.uk @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social branfordboaseaward.org.uk/hbwc/

Accidentally poetically apt paywall fade-out from an old New Statesman article about the death of Talk Talk front man Mark Hollis…

Terrific blog by @reeceandrea.bsky.social of @booksforkeeps.bsky.social championing children’s poetry! childrenspoetrysummit.com/2026/05/21/a...

I have the Big Break theme tune, Snookering You Tonight, stuck in my head. And now, hopefully, so do you, so that I need not suffer alone.

With the Eisners allowing for consideration a comic which includes AI art, I thought it might be informative to consider how one of last year's Hall of Fame inductees, Gus Arriola, felt about automated workarounds. It's something he addressed periodically including in a three month storyline in 1967

My pages for Pete Taylor’s Horrillas anthology. Written by Pete. How could I resist an aquatic gorilla/Creature from the Black Lagoon hybrid! Ink on paper and coloured in Procreate. Get your copy at thispete.bigcartel.com

You really can’t overstate the significance of this diagram in understanding the U.K.’s political paroxysm. Also, having understood it, you are now better informed than every U.K. politician and media outlet. Check out the very detailed write up explaining how it was created.

Well, this is adorable and hilarious 😂😍

Hard to reconcile that the country that adores David Attenborough & celebrates his 100th today is also the country increasingly voting for anti-climate, anti-ecology, anti-conservation, anti-decent-humanity, pro-stupid Reform. For gods sake listen to what DA actually says

Anyway here's a comic strip for kids about a tiny band. www.vivianeschwarz.co.uk/beasticles/

The spirit of David Lean lives on in this epic filmed on location on my chest

When I hear the word Gun I reach for my culture

James Cameron, buying up chickens to film his next Avatar film.

The Bill of Rights for Comics Creators was drafted in 1988 by a group of cartoonists including Scott McCloud, Steve Bissette and Dave Sim. It's an excellent starting point for any cartoonist who wants to negotiate with a publisher. How many of these rights are they willing to let you keep?

The one change that worked: I swapped doomscrolling for reading comic books

It's a special offer! Head to betonmond.co.uk and get your cards with extra artwork...

A letter to act on.

Fair enough

Well sure. But that’s skewed by the facts that he’s a criminal and loves other criminals.

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@jontofski.bsky.social would you know of a suitable UK to US courier for Nick, here?

Someone asked me today if I'd ever had a cockring. I said that yes, Nigel Farage did phone me once

April fools? I've no time for them. You have to commit, godammit! Be foolish all year every year.

Bugger, bugger, bugger!

Oh my!

A remarkable photo from #NoKings in DTLA from Connor Sheets of @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/l...

Just had an entertaining double act of workmen in fitting a new washing machine. The cocktail of grumbled critique of whoever fitted the kitchen and reassuring bursts of song they provided was just delicious. And the new machine works.

They only ever claimed he was PLAYING 4 dimensional chess. No one ever claimed he was any good at it.

I can't get exercised by what is on bank notes but this is very amusing. Apparently euros feature fictional bridges so they don't offend anyone (and they do, we checked!). So a Dutch town built the bridges that are on the notes and now all euros feature that town. 😂 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurobri...

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