Alex Potts

On Monday the brilliant @avpotts.bsky.social is speaking to @panelborders.bsky.social about his work in comics at Cartoon County in Brighton!

Now it's in three days

This is next week!

God was NOT OK. I'm not sure I was all that happy myself when I came up with this page. The next one's not much better either.

This is next week!

I walked through Epping Forest on my own the other week. I'd decided to sit down and draw and write at points on this walk, while I was there, without any particular outcome in mind, apart from describing what it was like. THIS is what I did.

MON 26 OCT @avpotts.bsky.social telling @panelborders.bsky.social about his tender, funny, and deeply human graphic novel Was That Normal? Plus Nespresso ads and Cartoon Network www.alexanderpotts.com Join us FREE at The Walrus Ship St Brighton (and online at www.youtube.com/@panelbordersvideo)

I am happy and excited that I'm going to be talking to @panelborders.bsky.social later this month, about my comics and stuff, at The Walrus in Brighton on Monday 26th October.

Pigs on a Train part 284 God is NOT ok

Pigs on a Train Part 283 There's more reality to this than I'm comfortable admitting.

Let's try this again 14 weeks ago I put out a comic about a man who asks a lady on a date, to go waterskiing. It was the most popular thing I've ever done, and it got 90000+ views and 4226 likes on Instagram (and one like on Blue sky!)

Pigs on a Train Part 283 There's more reality to this than I'm comfortable admitting.

Pigs on a Train Part 282 Part 282! only 18 left before we get to 300, and I'm planning on stopping this story when we get there. I'm really enjoying writing the interactions with God again though. Is 18 pages enough time for me to get bored of it again? Probably, yes.

Pigs on a Train part 281 Yes, He's back! I really like Him, so I think He'll be around for a while now. It's more fun, than just having comics about me living in someone else's house, encountering random dentists.

Pigs on a Train Part 280 I felt like doing some shading. That's how this page came about. #poat

Why was it so hard to find a fire exit? Normally they're everywhere you look. What if there's a fire down there?

I've been trying to find ways of making comics that feel fun and interesting again, so I drew this one BIG, in pencil and then watercolour. I seem to have come up with a format that is almost impossible to cut up into individual images for instagram, but it works fine on here.

Pigs on a Train Part 282 Part 282! only 18 left before we get to 300, and I'm planning on stopping this story when we get there. I'm really enjoying writing the interactions with God again though. Is 18 pages enough time for me to get bored of it again? Probably, yes.

Pigs on a Train part 281 Yes, He's back! I really like Him, so I think He'll be around for a while now. It's more fun, than just having comics about me living in someone else's house, encountering random dentists.

Pigs on a Train Part 280 I felt like doing some shading. That's how this page came about. #poat

Why was it so hard to find a fire exit? Normally they're everywhere you look. What if there's a fire down there?

Pigs on a Train Part 278 This is the new one that I finished yesterday. It's already on my Patreon, but now you can read it here too. It's not as good though. Patreon is miles better. patreon.com/u40382058

Lots of Avery Hill books spotted in the library at the Quentin Blake Centre! 😍

DECONSTRUCTING #COMICS: We discuss 3 new graphic novels with laugh-out-loud moments and deeper meanings as well: "Heaven" by Katie Skelly, "Was That Normal?" by Alex Potts, and "John of the Night" by Darryl Cunningham! deconstructingcomics.com?p=9107

This is by far the most in-depth and insightful review of anything I've done. Please have a listen

I haven't made much new work lately, partly because I wanted to see what would happen to my latest instagram post with the comic about waterskiing, without me interfering (over 4000 likes for some reason), and then there was A.R.C. comic fair. But I'm back now, maybe.

I'm at. @arcfestivallondon.bsky.social and I've put my books on the table and the Sumup machine is working so that makes it sound like I'm ready, but I don't FEEL ready.

I'm going to be selling my comics and talking to people from behind a table at @arcfestivallondon.bsky.social this weekend, so come along and say hello! I'll have both my @averyhill.bsky.social books, and loads of self-published stuff, and hopefully prints, and whatever else I can find.

I've been trying to exercise my creative writing muscles again, because ideas aren't coming as easily as they used to. This is what came out yesterday. I quite like it.

There's a great interview with @avpotts.bsky.social on Was That Normal? on Graphic Memoir Blog. open.substack.com/pub/jsandler...

I was interviewed by Jonathan Sandler for his Graphic Memoir site. jsandlergraphicmemoir.substack.com/p/alex-potts...

2/3 of the way there in 12 hours! Can we do it on the first day???

We'll be at the fantastic South London Comic & Zine Fair in July! Looking forward to it! 😀

If you're in or around Brighton this sunday come along to the Cartoon County Spring Fair where there will be an exceptional selection of comics, zines and prints on sale by all human creators.

Pigs on a Train part 276 I hope you all appreciate how I made this page even though it's been far too hot for all the exertion that's involved in writing and drawing

This is a great opportunity for you to get my other graphic novel, It's Cold in the River at Night, at 25% off! (And a load of other good stuff too)

Pigs on a Train part 275 Yes I'm still at it. One day we'll get to the end, but that day isn't today

'Was That Normal?' by @avpotts.bsky.social was reviewed on @graphicpolicy.com: “A very interesting read, some great art too." Get your copy: averyhillpublishing.bigcartel.com/product/was-...

Was That Normal? by @avpotts.bsky.social was reviewed in Booklist! "Potts’ vulnerable, moody full-color panels expose common aspects of modern loneliness: working online, parallel lives, and screen dependency.” Get your copy: averyhillpublishing.bigcartel.com/product/was-...