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Ugly Mug 9 is a Hot New Release on Amazon - in the 'How to Create Comics' section what's more - perhaps because in this issue we show you how to BAKE a batch of Ugly Mugs... www.amazon.com/Ugly-Mug-iss... #comics #undergroundcomix #howto #UglyMug #baking

I remember doing Steve Whitaker’s workshops with Andy Roberts at @captioncomicfest.bsky.social in the mid-90s. Two great talents taken way too soon

I’ve never done one of those comics where I draw myself addressing the reader. I thought I should try it in the new zine and take folks on a stroll through my neighbourhood. I thought of it as being like one of my hiking vlogs! New Katzine in my shop right now, and also @ Thought Bubble & Short Run!

Still on the Wilomina book tour. Looking forward to doing a comic workshop with @cbnnetwork.bsky.social Books Alive! Festival of Stories in Southport. Where: The Children’s Library at Southport Library, The Atkinson When: Thursday 29 October, 2pm-2.45pm For 8+ www.visitsouthport.com/whats-on/top...

This is a very good thread on the Society of Authors business, including the latest statement from them

If you like my comic why not have a look in my shop, there's loads there rob-jackson-comics.sumupstore.com thanks!

‘Creative Industries’ was always a fanciful term at best and good for misdirection when organisations represent them rather than actual creative artists. And this is where using fudged language gets us

Batman comic in a concrete case? bleedingcool.com/comics/batma... Pffft - I already did that with the Hulk! simonrussell.website/slabbed-pt1/

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)

A few pages of my grief memoir are in the latest @mindlessones.bsky.social, a free top tier comics and culture newsletter

Very excited to tell you Ollie and Alan are gatecrashing the Wrestle Room at the Atom Gallery and showing them professionals how to do it with your knickers off www.instagram.com/p/Dc_TNN3wUDQ/ Fri 9th Oct - Sat 31st Oct Atom Gallery. 127 Green Lanes, N16 9DA See you there #WrestleRoom

and even more excited that I've actually drawn something new! 💃

Wrestling….Art….But which ones better? Only one way to find out…..FIGHT!!! (Tonight. At The Atom Gallery, East London)

I’m going to go out on a limb and say that the reason there’s so much curated cultural outrage over the increase in diagnoses is that SO MANY WOMEN ARE BEING DIAGNOSED LATER IN LIFE. What, are we supposed to fund healthcare for WOMEN now are we?! Gross. No. Shut it down.

In This Slavery graphic novel, the mill-owner runs for parliament. He’s already the town’s main employer, their landlord, and the magistrate. His wife runs charity dances for the poor. Any response but forelock-tugging gratitude is considered dangerous ideology. 💀 socialism! the terror! 💀

Two things on Brexit: 1 conversations are now on Europe - leave the B-word to the swivel-eyed fraternity 2 the victims losing while the perpetrators thrive is a scam not a mistake. Are the Badenoch types still benefiting (financially? Certainly not politically) or are they really REALLY stupid?

AI "impedes [theory because we're] interested in human-understandable theory and theory-based models, not statistical models which provide only a representation of the data. Scientific theories and models are only useful if [we understand them and] they connect transparently to research questions."

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📣NOW OPEN FOR APPLICATIONS! We’re excited to announce a new paid role with the Comics Cultural Impact Collective. We’re looking for SOMEONE to join us as a Non-Executive Director… Could that SOMEONE be YOU?? 🫵 Full info here: www.thecomicsculturalimpactcollective.org/Join-Us

The seventh issue of my zine, Custard, had been sent to the printers! It will be available in about ten days and a digital version to follow. You can catch up on the previous issues here: custardcomix.gumroad.com/

Sunday at #LICAF started with a cracking live drawing trio accompanied by a brilliant musical trio. Couldn’t have been better. Artist no2 was the County’s own @lucysullivan.bsky.social drawing with ink after being only spotted using carbon paper recently

Our @zaraslattery.bsky.social at #LICAF panel on InspirationalComics on Neurodiversity & Disability “comics are gloriously indulgent… and generous”

Morning at #LICAF - a talk from our pal @ilyagraphic.bsky.social

Not doing any comics shows this year sadly, so if you want any of my comics there's only my shop rob-jackson-comics.sumupstore.com cheers, it is a nice shop.

This train to #licaf is too wobbly for me to read so I’ve the @comiclab.bsky.social pod in my ears Common phrase from Dave Kellett: “it’s a marathon not a sprint” is very true for a career and for the productivity side of making comics… but for my money the art side is a ramble. Often with no map!

‘Measures’ post-match reaction is good but I look forward to a pod where it’s not needed! We watched Damned United last night it’s very pantomime and I think Sheen was channelling Rik Mayall more than Cloughie, but boy could we do with 2026 managers calling out dirty tactics and players like that

Another Way Out collects 3 new comics by Carol Swain. The landscapes are wreathed with ghosts, and the spaces between words spill over with unsaid secrets. Elusive and intriguing, these stories are never quite what you expect, but always a truth you have known all along. darkandgolden.bigcartel.com

@edzitron.com Without tech billionaires money wouldn’t your latest Better Offline just be about the outsider art of teenagers imagining life if they had super powers; acid casualties’ obsessive archives; fans of the Habsburg dynasty; and obscure death cults?

The oddest thing about the response to this essay is people who say it’s “personal”. You can disagree about some or all of it! I may well be wrong! But it’s not “personal” to analyze a film or other work of art, even negatively. Criticism is more than “Hurray!” or “Hiss!”

Hot diggity dawg! Ugly Mug 9 is now available from @goshcomics.bsky.social... head to their excellent Soho shop at 1 Berwick St, London W1F 0DR or buy from their online store at goshlondon.com/ugly-mug-9/?... #comics #undergroundcomix #UglyMug

Issue #75 of our newsletter is out now ft. The Arrest, The Comforters, Grot Scrabblers, Gundam Hathaway, “I’d be great on Mastermind!”, Number 16, an unkillable Optimus Prime and more! “I underwent a process to discover I had - very gangsterly tbqh - had a heart attack without realising…”

Setting up at Volt in Eastbourne. Here all afternoon

Now also available as a handy digital pdf! stripforme.bigcartel.com/products

I’ll combine chemo lines and Celtic knotwork. Why the hell not

Kind reminder: 1st October, 6pm, London: Panels & Perspectives: Disability and Neurodiversity in Comics. Francisco de la Mora, Gemma Plum and Zara Slattery will examine how comics cann open up conversations about disability, neurodiversity, care and belonging. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/panels-per...

Just over £800 left to raise now! BOXES Vol. 5 can exist with your help! *The funding campaign ends on Friday at 12 noon UK time.* Help us fund it here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/thi... Thanks 📦📦📦

Yes! Sara brought early copies of this to a Cartoon County Fair and sold gangbusters. She’ll be great to hear in a couple of weeks’ time

Recent commission that I was more than happy to do. A drawing to remember an arch rivalry between two dogs. Sadly the chihuahua passed away last week, thankfully not in battle. Contact me if you’d like me to draw something for you.

🔥 Sunday School: DAS SCHADENFREUDEFEST 🔥 We dissect a horrible few days for Farage, every aspect of his latest scandal, and every moment of his car crash conference. And laugh about it quite a lot. As is right and proper. 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q... 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/7bMP...

On the Wilomina book tour! It’s such a buzz sharing our graphic novel with kids! We visited 4 more primary schools around Glasgow with Daydreams bookshop, talked to hundreds of kids about Wilomina & making comics, signed tones of books! Looking forward to more next week! @scholasticuk.bsky.social

All set up at Brighton & Hove Comic Con, if you're in town the pop along to the Dome.

NEXT UP! Saturday afternoon sees the triumphant return of #Pengefest to #Penge High Street. There'll be beer, food, stalls, live music and people in lederhosen. It's all in aid of St Christopher's hospice - and we'll be there, selling our books and #zines, too... See you all there!

Time is running out if you’ve been meaning to back BOXES Vol. 5… 6 days to go and around £1700 to raise! BOXES showcases new short comics from a diverse range of UK based comics creators. Reserve your copy of the new issue here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/thi... 📦📦📦

The UK launch of my graphic novel MURDER SCHOOL is taking place on Saturday September 19th 1 PM to 2 PM in @goshcomics.bsky.social Please come along and watch me sign one or more copies to you before your very eyes. goshlondon.com/the-gosh-blo...

Morning! We sent out our latest newsletter yesterday with details of THREE new #zines - plus something for the weekend... Still don't subscribe? Suit yourself, pal. You can read it hear instead: bit.ly/colossiveaug26

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