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Mark Bradley @markbradley.bsky.social · 19h

My policy hot take: If you‘re involved with making comics, you should be given priority booking for Bayeux Tapestry tickets.

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 19h

Social media accounts that auto-follow based on keywords are the worst. Last night I did an anxiety-led post talking about some albums I love to try and avoid spiralling into gloom over the whole A I music thing, and today I wake up to find several A I music accounts following me. Easy blocks.

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's been a bleh day for my anxieties but its now October and officially the start of "sitting inside with a jumper and mug of hot something looking out at the rain" season. To counter the AI music discourse I'm gonna post some autumnal or spooky albums I like...

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's always great to table at Thought Bubble (C40 Bubble Boy, bring money), but the curse is that I've never actually been to any of the workshops or talks! Look at this stuff, incredible.

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I can't be the only person who sees YouTube videos from the 2010s and gets slightly emotional because they're pre AI human craft? I'm here watching random anime openings to forgotten shows with names like"Help! I'm in Love with my Mecha Building Senpai". A single tear running down my cheek.

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I can't believe a company named after Saruman's orb would do something like this. Disappointed tbh, they've lost a customer. I'll be taking my business elsewhere and encouraging all my friends in the despotic tyrant facebook group to do the same.

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The tragedy of discovering the Uncanny podcast quite late and having so many THEORIES about episodes that are several months or years old.

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Anyone else just get a sponsored message on WhatsApp? And follow up question, which message app are we all gonna switch to when it becomes 50% adverts like every other Meta thing?

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Resident Evil was a lot of fun! Great to watch with a big audience (one moment in the film even got a spontaneous round of applause!) The Evil Dead comparisons are appropriate - it's less schlocky and slapstick, but just as chaotic and entertaining.

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I've avoided this so far by turning kids in to nemeses instead of fans. So every time I meet one I've met before I get a Shadow of Mordor style cut-scene where they shout: "Oi, there's that artist what did that bad drawing in my signature book!" It's been very helpful if a little terrifying.

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Rob DenBleyker @robdenbleyker.com · 18/09/2026

i don't know who is buying these folding phones. you have enough screens buddy. look around the room there are least 2-4 of them within ten feet. get less screens idiot

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I made the mistake of scrolling left on my Google phone and was greeted with this AI summary of a news article. The band Muse is completely unrelated to the story, of course. This is the technology they've been ramping up the Skynet rhetoric about this month.

An AI article summary about an AI tool called Muse featuring an AI image of the unrelated band Muse.

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Okay rule of three, now do an evil bastard just so we don't completely lose hope.

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I WISH it was something with more street cred but it was this. I was nine, I didn't even like them that much but my friend did and I wanted to look cool. My mum, who had spent years getting me to listen to Pink Floyd and Fleetwood Mac was probably devastated when I pointed this out in Woolworths.

The album cover of Bewitched self titled album.

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Hey guys, it's okay we labelled the shit so you can eat around it. There are no other games available where you drive cars so I'm sure this will be fine for us.

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Andy Oliver @andywpoliver.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

We should all now be able to now blast the government back in return with an eardrum-piercing message about not ignoring climate change

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The UK Government shoulda warned us about this instead. (Warning, incredibly cringe AI video AND THIS IS ONLY HALF OF IT)

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

My phone just made a really really really loud alarm to tell me not to use disposable bbqs in dry forest areas. I mean... Good... But I thought there was an asteroid en route or something

static.klipy.com

Spongebob and Patrick Panic

ALT: Spongebob and Patrick Panic

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Kingdom Hearts. I love Disney animation, I love Final Fantasy. So it seemed on paper to be the ideal pitch. But I HATE crossover media. You compromise the integrity and tone of both things for a weird theme park discord. The only ones I ever enjoyed were the Judge Dredd Alien comics.

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I feel like my emotional response to the eclipse will fully tilt me into either Astronomy or Astrology and I'm scared for my financial future in either case. Telescopes are expensive. Crystals are expensive. I can't win.

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Some of the food in these posters has put me off eating entirely. It all has the colour palette of tobacco stained 70s wallpaper and the texture of the inside of a composting bin.

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Backed! Get yourself a bunch of weird and wonderful comics.

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I did some culture. Mahler's 1st. All new to me but I enjoyed it a lot!

A photo of a crowd of people giving an orchestra a standing ovation inside the Royal Albert Hall

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

"Come on Luanne, you know what this is!"

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Oof, just look at that cover art!

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The modern world is just a gaudy casino everywhere you turn isn't it?

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Thought The Odyssey was incredible. It was so wonderful to enjoy the slight of hand of special effects again. I also enjoyed the reframing of such an old story to give it a potent new weight in the world we live in today. It's not subtle, but it weaves an apparent magic of its own.

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Seeing System of a Down live was incredible. But a hundred of us piling into a nearby pub afterwards where we sang nu metal into the night was legendary. Limp Bizkit - Break Stuff... I understand it now. It's best shared with friends.

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Obviously it's hard to overstate just how great Sam Neill was. His performance in Hunt For The Wilderpeople is one of my favourites and if you've not had a chance to see it you should take time this week. You won't regret it.

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Thanks Jacqui, for this amazing review! I'm so glad you enjoyed the book so much!

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I have a bit of a quirk where I struggle to register big milestones and events in my life. It still hasn't quite sunk in that between The Phoenix and this I'm doing my dream job, but seeing this in the biggest book store in Europe did feel really really cool. I drew these dorks!

Two life-sized standees of Zeke Zero and Astrid of Elsewhere chilling next to a stack of books what they're in and i drew.

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Huge news I'm still sort of processing as someone new to the kidlit world. But @waterstones.bsky.social have announced Star Breakers (a book what I drew) is their Children's Book of the Month for July!

Waterstones Children's Book of the Month for July is Star Breakers: Zeke Zero vs The Galaxy

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Enjoyed Supergirl. Imo it could have been a bit longer to expand on some of the emotional beats and a few more moments to soar. I also could have done with the planet locations being a bit more weird and alien. Both Milly Alcock and Eve Ridley were great together! Lobo was fun but kinda aimless.

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Me, some years ago aghast at Taylor Swift fans paying over £200 for a ticket: "Hah! Could never be me. I only listen to off-putting musicians that charge 40 quid!" Me today, booking Muse tickets with my brother: "Well, if we're spending £150 we may as well pay £200 for better seats."

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I have meetings this week...

Weather report for the UK showing both foods and extreme heat.

The cover of Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here. Two men are shaking hands, one of them is on fire.

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Good luck selling those PlayStations when the memory crisis caused by AI hype means you have to charge £1000 for a basic model

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I am currently out in Berlin and i have discovered that I do not have what it takes to fit in art a hard techo bar... I gave the bouncer a thumbs up.

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I feel kinda weird about OOT remake. It's a game I love utterly and I've played about a dozen times, but I'd be more excited for an original Zelda game with a similar vibe. A spooky and goofy dark fairy tale full of weirdos and mystery. The Switch 2 remains un-purchased.

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Ten years of these action RPGs where you're a hot guy/girl with a silly weapon in a fallen/falling fantasy world where everything is big and you must dodge backwards a lot. Kinda blurring into one. #sgf

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I'm sure people worked very hard on it, but when are they going to stop making Gundam games that completely miss what makes Gundam actually interesting? That is the extreme underlying romantic tension between two rival pilots!

Amuro and Char. Two enemies who are in love. One of them wants to force humans to leave the earth and do space psychic stuff. The other just wants to do the space pyschic stuff.

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Awful news. Persepolis is a comic that broadens the heart and more people should read it or watch the animated adaptation.

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

The animation chat has me thinking one telling thing - in the years since AI arrived, there's not been a ground-up indie phenomenon, like we saw with earlier tech (Flash, etc). It hasn't unlocked anyone's creativity. For all the anti-gatekeeping rhetroic, nothing anyone cares about has been born.

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

In a bizzaro world where I *was* happy to watch AI slop animation - surely I wouldn't bother getting Amazon or whoever to be my middleman and just go and prompt my own? Same for AI novels, AI art, AI music. Why should I care what someone else generates when I could just use the AI myself?

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

That new Paralives game is unflinchingly realistic...

A para that looks a bit like a tumblr version of me crying against the bathtub

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Like, did I timeskip a few years or something? How have driverless cars proliferated this much? I thought they were just a "they don't work that well so we'd be insane to flood our road infrastructure with them" thing? I've seen them about London! LONDON. The streets here are made of spaghetti!

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Star Trek Deep Space 9 Star Trek TNG The Expanse Arrested Development The Simpsons The Thick of It Taskmaster The Wire Father Ted (real shame) Neon Genesis Evangelion Cowboy Bebop The Sopranos Various Alan Partridge Peep Show (I'm a guy in my 30s) Over the Garden Wall This is the hardest thing

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Chris Hazeldine @ch-art.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Back from Phoenix Fest 2026, which took place this weekend in Oxford. So much fun and I think I drew The Island With No Name characters so often and so quickly that I've actually leveled up my art skill a little!

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