Bee submitted her portfolio for art high school today - her theme was “mermaids” and I am in AWE of the work she created!

Love this podcast!

Does it get better than Stardew Valley and some Chaucer on a cloudy day? Possibly not! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/y...

Stunning book worth checking out if you are a medievalist or a comics fan or both!

SCREAMING! This is the coolest thing!

It’s my one year “survived my defense” anniversary. Woo! I have mostly recovered and am still so pleased with how the blanket turned out!!

Finally got around to scanning my pages from Hourly Comic Day! Better late than completely forgotten, right?

Exciting new workshop for Guild members!

I’m so excited (and a bit nervous!!) to be running this little jokewriting workshop for @guildmedmak.bsky.social on 12 March—tell your favourite medievalists to sign up and join us! 🤪

Finally got around to scanning my pages from Hourly Comic Day! Better late than completely forgotten, right?

A friend sent a minicomic from @abbyhoward.bsky.social that he grabbed for me ages ago and Bee was just a liiiiiiiiiiittle bit excited. 😂😂😂

Ink stains. Water stains. Awe.

My agenda understands even if my drawing supplies don’t…

Back to the diary: look what my child has been up to!

Box get - let’s go! Thanks @scarygorgon.bsky.social for sharing this idea!

This is fun. You should go draw horsies instead of whatever it is you're meant to be getting on with*. gradient.horse *That's a lie. If you have important things to do don't listen to me. But this is cute.

“Making Space” with @guildmedmak.bsky.social tonight? Time to PLAY!

On 25th Feb, 5.30-6.15pm, I’m giving an online talk, chaired by Baroness Amos, on ‘Poetry as Creative Criticism: A Reading of Beowulf.’ You can sign up at this link! www.univ.ox.ac.uk/event/univ-o...

The inspiration.

... each letter was passed around and forwarded to friends and/or communally read at dinner parties or assemblies. And the contents of any given letter were commented upon by its collective audience, both publically and privately. Plus ça change ... 2/2.

Spent today in an archive of 19th-century diaries. I know people have commented on how the frequency of mail in e.g. 19th-century London made letters like emails, bouncing back & forth multiple times per day. But I realized today that they were actually more like social media posts, because ... 1/2

Really looking forward to this - already bothering the ever-patient @rahhh.bsky.social with all my ideas!

It’s a blast to have the Creative Kid but sometimes I do miss my dining room table… 😂

Very happy to be speaking with @drlauravarnam.bsky.social and @lukeewalker.bsky.social at her Gender & Medieval Studies conference this September, along with her Margery Kempe Society co-founder @laurakalas.bsky.social and @hellomizk.bsky.social and Teresa Pilgrim. Thank you Laura x

Keynotes for GMS26 are @hellomizk.bsky.social @pilgrimteresa.bsky.social @mirabelledomine.bsky.social @lukeewalker.bsky.social. Sessions incl traditional papers, lightning talks, roundtable, creative showcase & exhibition. Please note there will be *no* parallel sessions, so fewer slots than usual.

Only 4 days left to sign up for this free webinar on ‘How to Start Learning Grant Writing’ on Wed 28 Jan 4pm CET / 5pm GMT—there are still a few places left! www.eventbrite.com/e/1980620828...

Daily life keeps needing to be drawn!

Hi!

It’s a combination of minimemoir and diary comics about the final months of dissertating and all the interesting experiences that come with this particular situation. Your friends suffering through their phds will loooooove it!

Exciting news: a limited number of copies of my latest comic are now available from the fine people at Good Comics! goodcomics.co.uk/shop/abrupt-...

Exciting news: a limited number of copies of my latest comic are now available from the fine people at Good Comics! goodcomics.co.uk/shop/abrupt-...

Here's your daily dose of weirdness for today!

Just had the most inspiring & invigorating couple of days @ Creative Medievalisms Now workshop @ Cambridge. Fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, print-makers, comic-makers, film-makers, visual artists & more, all drawing on medieval sources. I spoke about my work & received so much in return ❤️

The Creative Medievalisms symposium organised by @realmandeville.bsky.social was an absolute BLAST ✨ @hellomizk.bsky.social & I had an amazing time, repping @guildmedmak.bsky.social and presenting on our creative-critical work 🎊 Thank you for inviting us, Anthony!

Had a blast enjoying FANCY PIZZA with the amazing @drlauravarnam.bsky.social !

Hey #portfolioday I’m Pam Wishbow, an illustrator that makes limited color, print inspired work based in Seattle, WA. I’m looking to do more work in publishing, editorial, and games this year. represented by How Do You Do pamwishbow.com

Bee spent the entire day constructing a nearly six-foot-long catfish mask out of cardboard and I am in awe! Incredible!

Our upcoming spring term events are now live on our website and detailed below on our term card! Join us for more Making Space sessions, and our special 1st Birthday celebrations 👇

BEE MADE ME CHAUCER PIXEL ART!!!

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.