Please fill this in if you want to advocate for better funding for comics.

By the way this is an 800 seater and I heard about 3/4 of the tickets have gone already, so if you fancy coming along do jump in 🤯

Check this animation for a taste of Majid's style m.youtube.com/watch?v=j8y1...) Then @karriefransman.bsky.social and @daniellocke.bsky.social talked about using comics in animation and physical spaces with Positive Negative (positivenegatives.org) the Red Cross etc 2/3

Here are details of the launch event, with AFLO the poet, @karriefransman.bsky.social talking about her work with @posnegorg.bsky.social, photographer/activist Natasa Leoni & me - chaired by Amber Massie-Blomfield. Live music from a band I can't find much about but am looking forward to discovering!

Best cosplay yet. 🤠

#free #comics event @uniofbrighton.bsky.social - 5pm, Sat May 3rd, hear @posnegorg.bsky.social's @karriefransman.bsky.social + @daniellocke.bsky.social, & graphic novelists Florian Grosset + Majid Adin talk Refugee Comics and Animation. Doors 4.45pm, BN2 0JY book free tix via timyurl.com/gb25tix

A huge thanks from The Comics Cultural Impact Collective (CCIC) to the 1001 members of the UK comics community who signed & shared our report asking DCMS to fund comics. We ❤️ you! It’s available to read, share & use (with credits please). www.thecomicsculturalimpactcollective.org/CCIC%20DCMS%...

We are bushed & YOU are brilliant!!! Thank you everyone who took the time to read, sign & share!!!!! #CCIC ✊

It's a comics themed day today.... Very much looking forward to Caption Comic Festival after a 8 yr hiatus. Caption holds a special place in my heart as I was on the committee for 6 yrs. captionfestival.co.uk A surreal intro to Caption from @andy-luke.bsky.social youtu.be/kuQo8HL1aGw?...

WHY YES! Are you a member of the @societyofauthors.bsky.social? Rhiannon Griffiths (fellow CCIC-er & funding guru) is doing this in a few weeks time: societyofauthors.org/event/fundin... (it’s free to members but very much open to non-members too)

‼️🚨‼️ The deadline for anyone wanting to support this important initiative - investment in independent comics creators in the UK as a solid business and cultural endeavour - is TOMORROW, 23rd April. I’m proud to be a co-sign on this worthy proposal, join the movement today!

This is super easy to fill out, takes a minute. Please lend your support 🫡

Sign this or never speak to me and my son (comics) again.

Do please check this out and, when you inevitably find the brilliantly-constructed document persuasive - lend your name to the movement. I have. I would like you to.

Comics people! Last day to sign today before we send our report off to the DCMS. Read: www.thecomicsculturalimpactcollective.org/The-Power-of... Sign: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Get graphics to share: drive.google.com/drive/mobile... See who else has signed: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Who’s going to get us to 700? 👀

Signed! I encourage all comics makers, publishers and associated stakeholders to check this out and sign your support.

24 hours later (give or take) and we have 429 signatures on this thing! 😙 If you’d like to join the crowd, you can do so here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

We've added our support to the Comics Cultural Impact Collective’s report, asking DCMS for investment in comics. Read the report at buff.ly/HpNMuba to see how support from the government could provide new opportunities for everyone in comics - and sign at buff.ly/qrqwzat.

The CCIC are absolutely amazing, and they’re doing work which is so important for the future of comics in the UK. Everyone should go sign up!

Finally, if you want to keep up with this campaign and others, join the Comics Cultural Impact Collective mailing list: www.thecomicsculturalimpactcollective.org/Join-Us We are an organisation formed to uplift comics & their creators from a grassroots community perspective. 💪

Oh, did you also want some nice social media assets to show off that you’ve co-signed the proposal? We’ve got you, lads: thecomicsculturalimpactcollective.us21.list-manage.com/track/click?...

And! If you work in/with/for an organisation that also works in/with comics, you can also co-sign: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... …Like these guys! (We have been busy little bees)

But we need to prove to DCMS that this scheme has the support of the community it aims to uplift, so if you approve of our plans and work in or with comics, you can co-sign our proposal here:

It just makes good fiscal sense to invest in an up-and-coming area of the UK’s £124.6bn creative industries, one that is teeming with talent and potential, and proven benefits to both creators and audiences. Also, a professional economist helped us make some pretty exciting projections!

Be amazing if £1.5m could be invested in the UK comics scene, wouldn’t it? Someone’d need to build a fully-costed, well-reasoned argument to DCMS for such a thing first, I guess… WELL, NOW. Come see what your friends at CCIC have done! www.thecomicsculturalimpactcollective.org/CCIC%20DCMS%...

this is big

News! The Comics Cultural Impact Collective Makes the Case to the UK Government for £1.5 Million Funding for Comics. www.brokenfrontier.com/comics-cultu...

I’ve added my signature to the Comics Cultural Impact Collective’s report, asking DCMS for investment in comics. Sign at forms.gle/mk6iTZK9yUDV....

I’ve added my signature to the Comics Cultural Impact Collective’s report, asking DCMS for investment in comics. Read the report: thecomicsculturalimpactcollective.org/The-Power-of-Comics And add your name: forms.gle/mk6iTZK9yUDV...

Comics Folk! We need your help. The Comics Cultural Impact Collective (CCIC) has written a report, asking the UK government’s Department of Culture, Media & Sport (DCSM) to invest in comics. We need you to help to make this the biggest action to support comics in UK. Please read, sign & share. 🙏✍️✏️✒️

"Womankind shall have fire in spite of the tyrant who sits on the mountain top." Pertinent quote from 'Gender Swapped Greek Myths' by @karriefransman.bsky.social. The book brilliantly subverts the patriarchal power imbalances of the myths. www.theguardian.com/books/2022/n...

I’ve been awarded a DYCP grant from Arts Council England to create 3D comics/sequential art that can only be experienced IRL, away from screens making them AI-proof. I’m researching automata/peep shows/pre-cinema visual stories and also digital/AR/VR visual stories. Hope you apply to ACE for grants!

✨️🌟YESsSsSsS🌟✨️ Now THIS is what I'm talking about, UK publishers. More news to come by the looks of things! Thanks Penguin UK!! www.penguin.co.uk/articles/chi...

Stories of Migration is now open @soasuni.bsky.social Thank you to everyone who helped celebrate our opening night. @laurahammond.bsky.social @daniellocke.bsky.social @karriefransman.bsky.social

It's me! With my lockdown beard as illustrated by awesome graphic novelist @karriefransman.bsky.social. #AndyBFinComics

@karriefransman.bsky.social , @zaraslattery.bsky.social and Sabba Khan speaking with @panelborders.bsky.social at #graphicbrighton about their Canterbury Cathedral comics project #comics #comicsstudies #sketchnotes

Anyone following or commenting on this thread- join us at CCIC! We have an army of comic lovers and the sooner we mobilise the sooner we can action some of these great ideas and raise the value of comics in the UK: www.thecomicsculturalimpactcollective.org

'Everything is Foreign' by @karriefransman.bsky.social #HopeNotHate

Hello New Followers. I’m Karrie Fransman👋 a comic creator who fits comics into books, newspapers, dolls houses, jewellery boxes and virtual reality. I’ve created comics for Penguin Random House, The Guardian, the United Nations, The Times etc. More here: linktr.ee/karriefransman

Here’s my @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social haul. Thank you for an awesome con and to all the inspiring artists (not just below!) @daniellocke.bsky.social, @cashbrowns.bsky.social Yasmin Abedifard, Lök Zine, stunning papercuts by Tom Eglington, Beth Duggleby, Bodi H, Huw Aaron. ❤️

We're at @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social You can find us #TheComicsCulturalImpactCollective in BUBBLEBOY B3 & moi, next door B4a Come to our ACE workshop at 2:45-3:45pm The Queen's Suite! @streakofpith.bsky.social @karriefransman.bsky.social @myfanwytristram.bsky.social @sarakenney.bsky.social

The Comics Cultural Impact Collective (CCIC) are at Thought Bubble! We'll be running a workshop on funding with Arts Council England on Saturday, and around that tabling in Bubbleboy Hall, B3. Who’s going to @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social? Come say hi. 👀

One more for @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social Month! Comic Art and Zine Fair Organiser’s Accessibility Checklist – New Guide from the Comics Cultural Impact Committee Will Be Available in Print at Thought Bubble. #TBatBF24 www.brokenfrontier.com/comic-art-an...