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Alex Potts @avpotts.bsky.social · 7h

Pigs on a Train part 284 God is NOT ok

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Alex Potts @avpotts.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

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

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Alex Potts @avpotts.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

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!)

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Alex Potts @avpotts.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

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Alex Potts @avpotts.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

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

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Alex Potts @avpotts.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

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.

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Alex Potts @avpotts.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

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.

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Alex Potts @avpotts.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

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

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Alex Potts @avpotts.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

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

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Alex Potts @avpotts.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

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.

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Alex Potts @avpotts.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

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Alex Potts @avpotts.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

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

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Alex Potts @avpotts.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

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

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Alex Potts @avpotts.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

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

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Avery Hill Publishing @averyhill.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

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

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Alex Potts @avpotts.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Pigs on a Train Part 277 It's been two months! Sorry about that, I forgot.

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Tim Young @deconcomics.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

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

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Alex Potts @avpotts.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

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

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Alex Potts @avpotts.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

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.

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Alex Potts @avpotts.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

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.

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Alex Potts @avpotts.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

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.

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Alex Potts @avpotts.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

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.

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Avery Hill Publishing @averyhill.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

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

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Alex Potts on Was That Normal?

From zines to Avery Hill: making a slice-of-life graphic novel in fragments

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Alex Potts @avpotts.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

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

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Avery Hill Publishing @averyhill.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

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

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Avery Hill Publishing @averyhill.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

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

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Daniel Bell @danbellcomics.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

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.

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Alex Potts @avpotts.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

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

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Alex Potts @avpotts.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

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)

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Alex Potts @avpotts.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

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

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Alex Potts @avpotts.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

So I went to Sevenoaks for some reason... Read this, and then read part 2, and then buy my book, Was That Normal, even if you've already got it.

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Avery Hill Publishing @averyhill.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

'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-...

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Avery Hill Publishing @averyhill.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

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-...

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Alex Potts @avpotts.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I wanted to say thanks to @awesomecomicspod for talking about Was That Normal back in January. They were ahead of the curve! It's in my linktree if you want to listen to the episode.

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Alex Potts @avpotts.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Pigs on a Train Part 274-ish Is this counted as being a new episode? I'm counting it, but you don't have to if you don't want. I'm hoping to wrap up the 'story' at part 300, but I've no idea how to do that at the minute.

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Avery Hill Publishing @averyhill.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

“There’s a narrative richness to Was That Normal? that shakes Philip’s sad story loose from the indie comix aesthetic, elevates it... A devastatingly funny graphic novel.” - Was That Normal? by @avpotts.bsky.social reviewed on Doomrocket! averyhillpublishing.bigcartel.com/product/was-... #comics

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Alex Potts @avpotts.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

This isn't comics but I've been having the urge to draw more stuff in the same style as Was That Normal, and a similar urge to get better at drawing landscapes, so this is what I did

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Avery Hill Publishing @averyhill.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

New review of Was That Normal by @avpotts.bsky.social on Doom Rocket! "There’s a narrative richness to Was That Normal? that shakes Philip’s sad story loose from the indie comix aesthetic, elevates it." doomrocket.substack.com/p/was-that-n...

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Was That Normal? Review: Oh no, now what?

Alex Potts' devastatingly funny graphic novel asks modern life's most pressing question.

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Alex Potts @avpotts.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Pigs on a Train Part 273 Well well well...

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Avery Hill Publishing @averyhill.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

"For a story that, in no small part, unfolds in text messages, and grapples with the discontents of modern life, the visual aesthetic is pleasantly quaint and gritty, and the theme, timeless." 'Was That Normal?' by @avpotts.bsky.social was reviewed on @brokenfrontier.bsky.social ! #comics

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Alex Potts @avpotts.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Pigs on a Train Part 272 Some people thought I'd forgotten about this. Others forgot all about it themselves. Although most have never even heard of it. Buy my new graphic novel!

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Avery Hill Publishing @averyhill.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

“It scores an acute awareness of one’s own lurking, inner Philip-ness.” 'Was That Normal?' by @avpotts.bsky.social was reviewed in Lavender Magazine! Get the book: averyhillpublishing.bigcartel.com/product/was-...

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Danielle Tute @danielletute.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Was That Normal? by @avpotts.bsky.social @averyhill.bsky.social looks like one of those rare graphic novels that cuts straight into the weird, tender, uncomfortable mess of being a person. Alex is doing the kind of work that makes everyday unease feel cinematic. okcomics.co.uk/products/pre...

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Avery Hill Publishing @averyhill.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Here's another in-depth appreciation of Was That Normal? by @avpotts.bsky.social, this time on Comic Bits Online. I'm so glad people are getting this book, Alex is a brilliant cartoonist and also very funny. hoopercomicart.blogspot.com/2026/04/mr-p...

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Mr Paul Ashley Brown Reviews: There is No Such Thing As Normal by Alex Potts

" Was That Normal " by Alex Potts , Published by Avery Hill Publ...

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Kevin Brown @kevinbrownwrites.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I was able to review @avpotts.bsky.social's WAS THAT NORMAL? (@averyhill.bsky.social) for @comicsjournal.bsky.social; Philip struggles to find connection, a problem made worse by his misguided perceptions of how everybody else's lives are so much better: www.tcj.com/reviews/was-...

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Was That Normal? - The Comics Journal

Alex Potts’ latest graphic novel follows Philip, a forty-something, single, heterosexual man living in what appears to be Dover based on the white cliffs in one scene. There’s nothing remarkable about...

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