It’s amazing what comes out of the @guildmedmak.bsky.social Making Space sessions 🤣 (Don’t ask me why, but in the course of the session, I said to @hellomizk.bsky.social that a dragon is ‘essentially, just a long chicken’ 😆) 🐓🐉🔥 Join us, for further madness & whimsy 😂

Really enjoying this smaller sketchbook. I am finding it much easier to pick up and draw in it without a bunch of planning or prepwork.

Thank you to everyone who came along this evening! It was really inspiring & encouraging! And a huge thank you to Kristen for facilitating 🙏🏻💖

Thanks to all the @guildmedmak.bsky.social members who joined us tonight for plotting, planning, and puzzling through the year ahead! It was so inspiring to hear all of your developing ideas and I cannot wait to see what comes next!

Later today we'll be running our New Year's Intention Setting session. @hellomizk.bsky.social will guide us through thinking about our creative intentions for the year and how we might go about achieving them. Come for support, encouragement, and inspiration!

Really excited to be a part of this with my @guildmedmak.bsky.social buddy & superstar cartoonist @hellomizk.bsky.social ✨💖 and many other Guild members!

Just thinking about the creative process…

In the Epiphany of our Discontent... I give you the most epic 12 days of Christmas ever committed to paper... And if anyone knows who wrote it (presumably back in 1974), please tell me! My dad enjoyed it in the form of a basic computer program in the 1980s; this copy's chez Newberry! (MS Hindman) 🧵

A statement of fact.

A reminder that registration for the Thursday workshop of ‘The Fundamentals of Academic Grant Writing’ is now CLOSED. There are 7 spots left for the Tuesday workshop (5-7pm CET / 4-6pm GMT), which starts **13 Jan**: forms.gle/kW2qPPAGPsH8...

A statement of fact.

I’ll be talking about my experiences of recreating medieval manuscript techniques at the IHR Medievalism seminar on 25 February (hybrid) @ihr.bsky.social #bookhistory #medievalsky www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

‘The sample materials and the workshops prompt both useful reflection and targeted writing towards clarifying the scope and objectives of a project. The opportunity for individual feedback on grant materials is an outstanding benefit of the workshop.’ (Tom Goodmann) 5/5

My 2 workshops on academic grant writing start NEXT WEEK—and there are still spaces available! (Pls share!) You get: - access to 2 dozen successful applications for major grants (e.g. ERC, NEH, NSF) - guidance to help you write stronger grant proposals - 1-year subscription to Page by Page 1/5

Tap, tap, tapping. Poets. Agony. And a girl running away, too late.

Wishing you a 2026 full of WONDER! 🧡

Wishing you a 2026 full of WONDER! 🧡

Snacks, pajamas and Mario currently underway. As is tradition!

hey hey! as promised, we're back with a new episode! here we talk with @meganlcook.bsky.social about book history (including how reading works now) and grungy, gritty "dirtbag" visions of the Middle Ages. happy listening #medievalsky! pca.st/zt66xxja

Tiddly continues her evolution into a squishmallow…

We posted 516 articles last year at Broken Frontier. Not bad for a small team of activists working around full-time day jobs to promote the form and deserving voices working within it! www.brokenfrontier.com

@ironohki.jer.art Hiya - was just going through my ThoughtBubble notes and found your email with the note “the guy who owes you 10£” so though I would check in. 😁

🌟The deadline to apply for these @newberrylibrary.bsky.social fellowships is this Saturday, January 3!🌟 www.newberry.org/research/art...

So I have been listening to Suede since like 1995 but never seen them live. Turns out they are playing a TINY venue in Zurich in March and I nearly hyperventilated buying tickets. Interrupted my bath to place to order (serious business!!).

Also we need more alt/small press/self-published comics from outside the UK submitted for review at @brokenfrontier.bsky.social PDFs are fine (and those of you who sent us stuff post-Thought Bubble may well be on the list for early 2026 coverage.) www.brokenfrontier.com/contact-us/

Merry Christmas and happy cat-wrangling! Can’t share this year’s card until they have gone out in the mail, but here’s a previous card that still feels true today!

Want to teache young people creativitye? Problem-solvinge? Teamworke? Awarenesse of the power and influence of language? Wayes of workinge thrugh the beautiful and terrifyinge and complex contradictiouns and ambiguities of thys worlde? Teache them poetrye. Teache them a lot of poetrye.

@drisaac.bsky.social Is this you just hanging out in the OED?!? SO COOOOOOL.

New diary comic: soundtrack of an average day.

New diary comic: soundtrack of an average day.

I will be there! So looking forward to this!

Got Bee to do a jam comic with me: meet Chef Pierre and his powerfully potent tears! 😂

Got Bee to do a jam comic with me: meet Chef Pierre and his powerfully potent tears! 😂

You look like you could use some cozy in your day…

Looking for a little upbeat reading with your morning coffee/tea/wheat grass/flat soda gulped right from the bottle (wait, that’s just me?!)? Check out what the Guild has been up to!

SUCH a thrill to read this! I’m so proud of the community that we have built- huge thanks to all who have joined us!!! 🥹💞💪 And huge thanks to Kristen & Eleanor for inviting me into the scheming! @hellomizk.bsky.social @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social

In our initial discussions about the Guild we thought we'd be doing well if we gathered a community of 20 medievalists in our first year. We now have over 100! None of it would have been possible without the outstanding @drlauravarnam.bsky.social and @hellomizk.bsky.social (whose comics are below).

Over the moon about our glorious @guildmedmak.bsky.social ! What a first year we’ve had (and in only eight-ish months?!?)

Good moooooorning!!

I have accomplished approximately one million tiny tasks today. Hurrah!

Another super fun project I’ve contributed to this year is a French comics anthology by doctoral students who also make comics. It has been such a fun experience to contribute to the first volume and I have so many ideas for future editions! Get your copy here: fr.ulule.com/limposteur/

Another super fun project I’ve contributed to this year is a French comics anthology by doctoral students who also make comics. It has been such a fun experience to contribute to the first volume and I have so many ideas for future editions! Get your copy here: fr.ulule.com/limposteur/

New Book Day! Please tell the world. Read a comic about it here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/sawyer... Or if you just want to buy it: us.macmillan.com/books/978037... Thanks everyone! It took me over a year to write, but I think you and/or your kid(s) will have many laughs together.

"Write! The written letter endures!" Scribal wit at the start of financial records for London bridge in 1424. Cleverly, the scribe created the letter 'S' by folding a speech scroll, so the form of the letter conveys the meaning of the conventional proverb, "speech is fleeting but writing endures."

'What are we looking for when we pick up a “reimagined classic” or a “bold and subversive retelling” of a centuries-old tale?' Our latest Meet a Medievalist Maker post is by @sarafredman.bsky.social, author of 'Griselda is Dead, and Also Her Patience', a reimagining of Chaucer’s 'Clerk's Tale'👇

Attention creative medievalists! Eleanor Barraclough & I are co-editing a special issue of Public Humanities entitled CREATING THE MEDIEVAL NOW! See the cfp for details: essays of 2,000-3,000 words due 1 May 2026. (Amazing artwork by @hellomizk.bsky.social). 1/ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

A great gift for your favorite doodler AND FOR YOURSELF!

@aavrilart.bsky.social Hi - any chance you can send me a quick DM? Having problems emailing!

I had a great "Making Space" session this evening, working in companionable silence with a community of cartoonists, fabric artists, printmakers, woodworkers, poets, novelists & nonfiction writers. In the midst of a busy week, towards the end of the semester, it felt great to reconnect with writing.

Kristen’s imagination blows me away once again! 😳🤩