No cheating, last photo of your pet

(Draft page snapped straight from the monitor but) if you speak good/native French, Mandarin Chinese, German or Hungarian, I’d really appreciate a spell/grammar check for my Google-translated headlines. Thank you!

Just turned down a project proposal request where the organisation had defined the rate and how long it would take to do the work. Site visit, running workshops and producing a narrative illustrated trail. All this at £175/half day, 3.5 days. Creative work isn’t a fast production line!

Looking to visualise customer feedback? Here's an example of how I took residents' wishes for a new community facility and drew it into an inspiring visual summary. Now the client is using the illustration to guide more conversation and decision making, see how on their website: lnkd.in/e6bsjztk

Absolute gem of a post in our local FB marketplace (I live in a small South Valleys town). Anyone wanting witch cat vibes, lemme know and I can hook you up

Drawing is hell, every moment is holding your breath and fearing a single line going wrong, destroying an hour's work, while your brain screams that it's rubbish, not paying the bills and you should give up.

While I struggle with episodes of health issues and low energy, I fully appreciate the times I have the capacity to do stuff. Like, make a pond in the back garden, complete its pebble slope for critter friends (one can hope).

Been toiling away at the allotment this week, busy time! Successes and failures: Tomatoes going strong, my neighbour Ray is supplying me with rain water from his tap system, peas are flowering, planted calabrese and sweetcorn.

🌍 The bilingual #Intergenerational #ClimateComic Activity Book is here! Co-created with and for schools, care homes & communities in South Wales 🖍️ Packed with creative activities + free templates (incl. large format) 🎨 Illustrated by @laurasorvala.bsky.social 👉 free download www.climatecomic.co.uk

Live drawing today about all things digital health and innovation for @cardiffuni.bsky.social

Been busy beavering away drawing posters about research findings and service processes. After months of health issues I’ve been able to get back to the allotment again so tune away now if you don’t want to see allotment photos (who are you kidding, of course you do)

An open letter to the Equality and Human Rights Commission from the Culture Sector, in solidarity with Trans, Nonbinary and Intersex communities. Sign your name here: tinyurl.com/ehrcletter Please share widely, and if you are not able to sign for your organisation, please share with someone who can

hey hello this ~fabulous~ gold crow and skull reduction lino print is now available on my website. Limited edition of *only 6* printed yesterday. "Birth (I smash your skull)". get em while they're hot! shop.frankduffy.co.uk/product/birt... #printmaking #art #witchsky #bsnm #crow

"The survey reveals a sector that is underfunded, under resourced and under the radar. Women’s and girls’ organisations face considerable pressures, often disproportionately so, compared with the wider charity sector": @probonoecon.bsky.social. www.probonoeconomics.com/underfunded-...

As @zoejardiniere.bsky.social says here, there's a long history of singling out ethnic groups as scapegoats for crime. These efforts are always based in lies, with nothing but racism at their heart. All these league tables will do is fuel violence and hatred. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/dog-wh...

Thanks to support from the trans community and its allies we are now advertising for a full time equalities solicitor. Trans people know they are at the thin end of fascism. If you're a lawyer, here's how you help them fight back. goodlawproject.org/vacancy/seni...

This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic www.crabmuseum.org/visit 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

Here is something you can do to take action and support trans people to exist and live peacefully like everyone else, as they should be able to:

I wonder whether this is also why UK courts are so reluctant to hear from trans people. They harbour a belief, unacknowledged even to themselves, that to be trans is to lack the ability to make decisions about your own life. It's akin to how White nations once thought about Black and Brown people.

The fight for the rights and dignities of trans people is a fight against the thin edge of fascism. It's a hill we are willing to fight and die on. If you'd like to support us with a donation dedicated to trans rights, you can do so here. I am donating £1,000. goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...

Want something positive to look at and learn with on this Earth Day? Go have a look at our Climate Comic Activity Pack, a free resource with printouts for all sorts of climate and sustainability related things to do: www.climatecomic.co.uk #EarthDay #ClimateChange @merrynthomas.bsky.social

If you read or make comics in the UK, read the Comics Cultural Impact Collective’s report, asking DCMS for investment in comics. Tell your friends about it: thecomicsculturalimpactcollective.org/The-Power-of-Comics And add your name to the list of supporters: forms.gle/mk6iTZK9yUDV...

Sign! Share!

Are Wes Streeting and NHS England covering up trans suicide data? 🧵

So, while comics layouts do adapt the directions of writing systems, types of comics have encoded patterns beyond that of writing. This supports that comics use different visual languages with varying properties, as argued in my book The Patterns of Comics www.visuallanguagelab.com/poc

I have availability in May for event #illustration, #DigitalScribing and studio projects such as report visual summaries. Have a look at my work at lnkd.in/eVSB9UCv and get in touch to chat about potential events or projects! Here's a recent #GraphicRecording of mine:

Everyone! I've now set up the official BlueSky account for The Folklore Library & Archive - a registered charity dedicated to preserving folklore and at-risk heritage. You've seen posts here before, but now follow the proper account (please) and share it on to the world. Thank you

Last night my 5 year old asked me if he has to drink coffee when he grows up. "No," I said, "but it helps"

"We have to support genocide, starve disabled people and ruin trans kids lives to get election results." The election results:

Drawing live visual summary for the @openuniversity.bsky.social internal workshop about developing a research community in Wales 💡✍️ #research #university #impact #illustration #graphicrecording

This has been such a pleasure to work on, lots of tools to use to chat and think about climate change.

Finally! The pack is full of activities and ideas, great to have illustrates this and put it together with the team ✨

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

And when we get real informal in Finnish, we use 'it' instead of 'she/he' to talk about a person.

Did you know that in Finnish we only have a gender neutral pronoun hän instead of she and he? Today we celebrate equality day and Minna Canth day. Canth (1844-1897) was an equality campaigner, social activist, and author. Her messages are still very relevant today. #tasaarvonpäivä #MinnaCanth

Ok workwise, I recently helped digitally scribe a wonderful academic project launch for Working With Dementia. They are doing great work looking at supporting people and employers to look at different options to stay in work and not having to just quit after a diagnosis.

It's Friday, so here are some Rufus classic poses: The Prawn, The Roach (about to transform into a shark), The Sploot, and finally, The Pious Brother.

Looking for live or other illustration work? I have some availability from April onwards. Get in touch if you have something in mind! Some recent work here from graphic recording and digital scribing to icons.

Work trip to Basel has been great. Can’t show the work but clients are fab, started the event with play dough and had some traditional Swiss food and good rants.

Guess where I’m staying tonight for a job tomorrow…

This has been such a great project to create with the researchers and participants in schools and care homes!

Rufus, as always, is doing his best to support my productivity

This is my last week of work before the holidays, hoping to be done by Thursday afternoon. Working on big rich picture sketch for Defra and sketching a logo and images for ‘Working With Dementia’, a new research project from @uniwestscotland.bsky.social

As well as my work, will be sharing other hobbies like my new allotment half plot progress. Oh dear. The most recent storm finally did a number on my inherited, old shed. I’m not sure this is fixable to a safe state… more clearing up to do at some point

Our bilingual (Welsh, English) Climate Comic, co-created with older and younger people in Wales, can be downloaded for free here: www.climatecomic.co.uk Watch this space for the intergenerational activity pack, coming soon... #CADR #climate #ageing @charliemuss.bsky.social

Great to celebrate #WomenInAcademia with EMPOWER Cardiff today. 🌟 A great opportunity to network and share experiences with colleagues from across @cardiffuni, all beautifully captured in live illustrations by the talented Laura Sorvala @laurasorvala.bsky.social.

20 of the best independent boutiques to support this Small Business Saturday 👀 https://buff.ly/4fvlbVf